After salutation, observing me to look earnestly upon a frame, which took up the greatest part of both the length and breadth of the room, he said, "Perhaps I might wonder to see him employed in a project for improving speculative knowledge, by practical and mechanical operations.
Six hours a day the young students were employed in this labour; and the professor showed me several volumes in large folio, already collected, of broken sentences, which he intended to piece together, and out of those rich materials, to give the world a complete body of all arts and sciences; which, however, might be still improved, and much expedited, if the public would raise a fund for making and employing five hundred such frames in Lagado, and oblige the managers to contribute in common their several collections.
He assured me "that this invention had employed all his thoughts from his youth; that he had emptied the whole vocabulary into his frame, and made the strictest computation of the general proportion there is in books between the numbers of particles, nouns, and verbs, and other parts of speech."
Nothing was wanting to enable him to enter upon the immediate execution of this plan, but the death of Mr Allworthy; in calculating which he had
employed much of his own algebra, besides purchasing every book extant that treats of the value of lives, reversions, &c.
There would, in fact, be an insuperable difficulty in ascertaining when force could with propriety be employed. In the article of pecuniary contribution, which would be the most usual source of delinquency, it would often be impossible to decide whether it had proceeded from disinclination or inability.
It has rarely been attempted to be employed, but against the weaker members; and in most instances attempts to coerce the refractory and disobedient have been the signals of bloody wars, in which one half of the confederacy has displayed its banners against the other half.
It must stand in need of no intermediate legislations; but must itself be empowered to employ the arm of the ordinary magistrate to execute its own resolutions.
If opposition to the national government should arise from the disorderly conduct of refractory or seditious individuals, it could be overcome by the same means which are daily employed against the same evil under the State governments.
It is through the information brought by the converted spy that we are able to acquire and
employ local and inward spies.
He had just decided to delay his visit to South Morden no longer, when the errand-boy
employed by Sharon brought him this message: "The old 'un's at home, and waitin' to see yer."
For instance, during the siege of Constantinople by Mahomet II., in 1453, stone shot of 1,900 pounds weight were
employed. At Malta, in the time of the knights, there was a gun of the fortress of St.
She afterwards continued her work, whilst the young man went into the garden and appeared busily employed in digging and pulling up roots.
In the evening the young girl and her companion were employed in various occupations which I did not understand; and the old man again took up the instrument which produced the divine sounds that had enchanted me in the morning.
One party
employs as many family members as it has AMs in the Assembly.
According to the Register of Members' Interests, published by the House of Commons, they include: | Blyth Valley MP Ronnie Campbell
employs his wife, Deirdre Campbell, as a part-time caseworker; | Sunderland Central MP Julie Elliott
employs her son, Miles Elliott, as a Parliamentary assistant; | Washington and Sunderland West MP Sharon Hodgson
employs her husband, Alan Hodgson, as an office manager; | Wansbeck MP Ian Lavery
employs his wife, Hilary Lavery, as a senior secretary; | South Shields MP Emma Lewell-Buck
employs her husband, Simon Buck, as a researcher; | Easington MP Grahame Morris
employs his wife, Michelle Morris, as a part-time senior secretary; and, | Stockton North MP Alex Cunningham
employs his son, John Cunningham, as a caseworker.
