Show gladstone a hard worker gladstone was a hard worker with no dreads dreada with regard to work says the american magazine he turned from political responsibilities bili ties s of toe the beav heaviest left to greek for recreation and lived his fourscore four score years and more just as pope leo XIII turned to latin poetry for his relaxation from worldwide world wide burdens and lived on beyond fourscore four score and ten living so hopefully that when at the little dinner given him on his ninetieth birthday one of the cardinals said in proposing a toast to him heres that you may live to be a hundred holy father the old pontiff replied but why limit me to a hundred they were contemporaries of Ranke the german historian who at the ago age of ninety oue one proposed to write a history of the world in 12 volumes one volume to be completed each year and actually lived I 1 believe to complete nearly half of it these men bad no dreads but they allowed their energies to work on without any fear of exhausting their vitality |