Zarathustra, then,--this shadowy, allegorical personality, speaking in allegories and parables, and at times not even refraining from relating his own dreams--is a figure we can understand but very imperfectly if we have no knowledge of his creator and counterpart, Friedrich Nietzsche; and it were therefore well, previous to our study of the more abstruse parts of this book, if we were to turn to some authoritative book on Nietzsche's life and
works and to read all that is there said on the subject.
There is fairly definite evidence to warrant our acceptance of this: the dialect of the "
Works and Days" is shown by Rzach (3) to contain distinct Aeolisms apart from those which formed part of the general stock of epic poetry.
The nature of the soil having been carefully examined, by means of repeated borings, the
work of excavation was fixed for the
They would ask Jurgis if he had
worked there yet, and if he meant to; and Jurgis would debate the matter with himself.
His chief contribution to science was his studies of the electron and his monumental
work on the "Identification of Matter and Energy," wherein he established, beyond cavil and for all time, that the ultimate unit of matter and the ultimate unit of force were identical.
Browning's
work. A curious, an erudite artist, certainly, he is to some extent an experimenter in rhyme or metre, often hazardous.
In the evening he cut out the
work, and went to bed early, that he might get up and begin betimes next day; but he was saved all the trouble, for when he got up in the morning the
work was done ready to his hand.
If I break you in, I'll be doing plenty of your
work at first.
Considering how flexible thin wax is, I do not see that there is any difficulty in the bees, whilst at
work on the two sides of a strip of wax, perceiving when they have gnawed the wax away to the proper thinness, and then stopping their
work.
You will bring home the
work as it is finished, and your money will be always ready.
He
worked weeks on it, with his son and his wife, while the rest of us laughed at their labours.
The longer Levin mowed, the oftener he felt the moments of unconsciousness in which it seemed not his hands that swung the scythe, but the scythe mowing of itself, a body full of life and consciousness of its own, and as though by magic, without thinking of it, the
work turned out regular and well-finished of itself.