TIME.

‘Time is the stuff that life is made of,’ says Young.

“BEGONE _about your business_,” says the dial in the Temple: a good

admonition to a loiterer on the pavement below.

The great French chancellor, d’Aguesseau, employed _all_ his time.

Observing that madame d’Aguesseau always delayed ten or twelve minutes

before she came down to dinner, he composed a work entirely in this

time, in order not to lose an instant; the result was, at the end of

fifteen years, a book in three large volumes quarto, which went through

several editions.

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The Every-day Book and Table Book, v. 1 (of 3) or Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Month, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac · 第 183 / 982 题