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In later times this office was assigned by settled usage to the crier of the Court, who in this capacity was called " the common vouchee," and thus cheerfully and, we presume, not ungainfully passed his life, or so much thereof as was covered by the legal terms, in perpetual contempt of the Court of Common Pleas and liability to be fined at the king's discretion.
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The social consideration is that the workers who are ungainfully employed create problems of social friction; and the national character of the people suffers in the end.
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They are allowed to earn money in no way, nor are they permitted to work, even ungainfully (this circumstance is, no doubt, at the root of the greedy hurry of their lives in Jaouedda).
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At the end of the day 25 per cent of the working time of the gang and of the expensive machine, has been ungainfully spent.
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