assiduity

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Assiduity in the discharge of maternal duties is the next distinguishing excellence of Hannah to which our attention is invited.

From Female Scripture Biographies, Volume I by Cox, Francis Augustus

Had it been so, Goodness of heart, and Gentleness of manners, great Assiduity, and inviolable and modest Love, would not of themselves have been supposed sufficient recommendations.

From Clarissa: Preface, Hints of Prefaces, and Postscript by Richardson, Samuel

The Assiduity with which I made my Court to the Margrave Philip subjected me to a very sharp Reprimand from the King.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume III Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von

All are acquainted with the Labour and Assiduity with which Tully acquired his Eloquence.

From The Spectator, Volume 2. by Addison, Joseph

Assiduity and persistence are irresistible, and in time overthrow and destroy the greatest powers.

From The Boys' and Girls' Plutarch being parts of the "Lives" of Plutarch, edited for boys and girls by White, John S. (John Stuart)