Being come up to the advanced party he [2] saw some small parties of the enemy, the matter of a short mile, marching slowly along the foot of a hill which lay towards Blair, marching towards us; whereupon he sent orders to Balfour to march up to him in all haste with the foot.
— from The Jacobite Rebellions (1689-1746) (Bell's Scottish History Source Books.) by J. Pringle (James Pringle) Thomson
A long course of training is necessary to instruct a man in the business of jewelling or engraving, and if the cost of his training were not made up to him in a higher rate of wages, he would, instead of learning so difficult an art, betake himself to such employments as require hardly any instruction.
— from Reading Made Easy for Foreigners - Third Reader by John Ludwig Hülshof
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