Spies cannot be
usefully employed without a certain intuitive sagacity.
But few have spoken of usury
usefully. It is good to set before us, the incommodities and commodities of usury, that the good, may be either weighed out or culled out; and warily to provide, that while we make forth to that which is better, we meet not with that which is worse.
This illustrious person had very
usefully employed his studies, in finding out effectual remedies for all diseases and corruptions to which the several kinds of public administration are subject, by the vices or infirmities of those who govern, as well as by the licentiousness of those who are to obey.
The army under such circumstances may
usefully aid the magistrate to suppress a small faction, or an occasional mob, or insurrection; but it will be unable to enforce encroachments against the united efforts of the great body of the people.
I spent IT
usefully for clothes and hated them every time I put them on."
There is in this story abundance of delightful incidents, and all of them
usefully applied.
Now, all these things require much thought, and we want to apply the knowledge
usefully, and we should therefore be exact.
Sillerton Jackson applied to the investigation of his friends' affairs the patience of a collector and the science of a naturalist; and his sister, Miss Sophy Jackson, who lived with him, and was entertained by all the people who could not secure her much-sought-after brother, brought home bits of minor gossip that filled out
usefully the gaps in his picture.
If he might use the expression, it would
usefully pave the way in the minds of the jury for the defense which he had to submit to them.
Geographical distribution may sometimes be brought
usefully into play in classing large and widely-distributed genera, because all the species of the same genus, inhabiting any distinct and isolated region, have in all probability descended from the same parents.
Was there anything I could do in London, which might
usefully occupy this interval of time?
He was like one under the propitious influence of a charm, from the moment of his being
usefully employed; and if there were a happy man in the world, that Saturday night, it was the grateful creature who thought my aunt the most wonderful woman in existence, and me the most wonderful young man.