Any number of reflective souls have seen that the deepest disappointments come from near-victories; to endeavour, but just to miss, is harder to bear than to realise one had better not endeavour at all.
One of these was Lord Shaftesbury, who in 1678 endeavoured to strike at the succession and at the Catholic successor, the Duke of York, by implicating Pepys in the mysterious murder of the London magistrate Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey, the crime on which the full credulity of the populace in the Popish Plot depended.
This is collective grassroots endeavour aimed at reasserting isolation, and it's the only kind, this book leaves you thinking, that ever really succeeds.
He has had to wait some time to receive public thanks for his endeavours at this club.
On September 26th, David Starkey, one of the most high-profile of its 2,300 fellows, will talk about "The Antiquarian Endeavour" at St James's Church, Piccadilly.
Told with immersive fluency, and a ravishing power and grace, these stories possess an imaginative range that reflects the ethos of literary endeavour at its best.
Each orbiter would be displayed as a museum piece: Atlantis at the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida; Discovery at the National Air and Space Museum's Udvar-Hazy Center, Chantilly, Va.; and Endeavour at the California Science Center in Los Angeles.
When Elizabeth refuses Darcy's first offer of marriage, he notes that she spurns him "with so little effort at civility," whereas the book has the clearly superior "so little endeavour at civility".
Instead of perceiving death as something natural, modern physicians have come to see it as bad or alien, a defeat of all their therapeutic endeavours, at times almost as a personal defeat.
If the storm is approaching Houston, flight controllers will land the Endeavour at one of three sites on Tuesday — either at the Kennedy center or at backup sites in California and New Mexico.
