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  • Half of our life is spent in getting competents to repair the botchwork of incompetents.

    The University of Hard Knocks Ralph Parlette 1900

  • It was a marvellous bit of botchwork, and yet there was a certain meaning in the production, compiled solely from Homeric verses.

    Arachne — Volume 05 Georg Ebers 1867

  • It was a marvellous bit of botchwork, and yet there was a certain meaning in the production, compiled solely from Homeric verses.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works Georg Ebers 1867

  • It was a marvellous bit of botchwork, and yet there was a certain meaning in the production, compiled solely from Homeric verses.

    Arachne — Complete Georg Ebers 1867

  • Some were in such a state that no treatment, however excellent, could possibly help them; in others we have had to labor for months to eliminate these poisonous medicines from the system and get the Sexual Organs into proper condition to admit of a restorative treatment; and in still others the effect of our usually quick and thorough-going remedies were delayed and interfered with by the ignorance or botchwork of some quack or bungler, or the well-meant but stupid doctoring of some "family physician" who thinks himself competent to treat these diseases.

    Manhood Perfectly Restored Prof. Jean Civiale's Soluble Urethral Crayons as a Quick, Painless, and Certain Cure for Impotence, Etc. Civiale Remedial Agency

  • "Then," interrupted Hermon, "the worshipper should thank the sculptor; for is it not more profitable to him to be encouraged by the statue to emulate the human virtues whose successful embodiment it shows him than to strive for the aid of the botchwork of human hands, which possesses as much or as little power as the wood, gold, and ivory that compose it?

    Arachne — Volume 02 Georg Ebers 1867

  • "Then," interrupted Hermon, "the worshipper should thank the sculptor; for is it not more profitable to him to be encouraged by the statue to emulate the human virtues whose successful embodiment it shows him than to strive for the aid of the botchwork of human hands, which possesses as much or as little power as the wood, gold, and ivory that compose it?

    Arachne — Volume 02 Georg Ebers 1867

  • "Then," interrupted Hermon, "the worshipper should thank the sculptor; for is it not more profitable to him to be encouraged by the statue to emulate the human virtues whose successful embodiment it shows him than to strive for the aid of the botchwork of human hands, which possesses as much or as little power as the wood, gold, and ivory that compose it?

    Arachne — Volume 02 Georg Ebers 1867

  • "Then," interrupted Hermon, "the worshipper should thank the sculptor; for is it not more profitable to him to be encouraged by the statue to emulate the human virtues whose successful embodiment it shows him than to strive for the aid of the botchwork of human hands, which possesses as much or as little power as the wood, gold, and ivory that compose it?

    Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works Georg Ebers 1867

  • "Then," interrupted Hermon, "the worshipper should thank the sculptor; for is it not more profitable to him to be encouraged by the statue to emulate the human virtues whose successful embodiment it shows him than to strive for the aid of the botchwork of human hands, which possesses as much or as little power as the wood, gold, and ivory that compose it?

    Arachne — Complete Georg Ebers 1867

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