office

'I am at perfect liberty,' he said, with dignity, 'to sit in my friend Blaythwayt's office if I choose.

Acting on this conviction, the authorities sent an experienced woman from the office to Lady Lydiard's house, to examine the poor girl's clothes and ornaments before they were packed up and sent after her to her aunt's.

He dashed into the inner office with the haste of a short trying to cover.

'Hold your tongue this instant, or I'll have you turned out of the office!' said Mr.

It seems also improper, that one person should execute several offices, which was approved of at Carthage; for one business is best done by one person; and it is the duty of the legislator to look to this, and not make the same person a musician and a shoemaker: so that where the state is not small it is more politic and more popular to admit many persons to have a share in the government; for, as I just now said, it is not only more usual, but everything is better and sooner done, when one thing only is allotted to one person: and this is evident both in the army and navy, where almost every one, in his turn, both commands and is under command.

The only fame of my poem which reached me was when another boy in the office quoted some lines of it in derision.

But this hypothesis, such as it is, has already been refuted in the remarks applied to the duration in office prescribed for the senators.