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Example sentences for "active life"

  • For first, it decideth the question touching the preferment of the contemplative or active life, and decideth it against Aristotle.

  • Operative treatment is specially indicated in young subjects who lead an active life, and in labouring men, particularly those who follow dangerous employments necessitating stability of the knee.

  • In the majority of cases occurring in patients who do not follow a laborious occupation or otherwise lead an active life, a satisfactory result can be obtained without having recourse to operation.

  • In a considerable proportion of cases no recurrence takes place, and in the course of a month or two the patient is able to resume an active life with a perfectly useful joint.

  • Oratory was, in Rome, the unwritten literature of active life, and recommended itself to a warlike and utilitarian people by its utility and its antagonistic spirit.

  • And their practical statesmanship gave an early encouragement to oratory, which is peculiarly the literature of active life.

  • They are distinctively the poets of active life.

  • The moral character of youth has been generally formed by their parents, by friends who gained their confidence, or by their pursuits in active life.

  • In a short time you will complete your course of studies at this place and bid adieu to these halls, to act your parts upon the great theatre of active life.

  • Their education was regulated with a view to an active life, and rearing citizens and heroes, not philosophers.

  • The Difference between a contemplative Life, and an obedient, active Life, with Directions concerning them.

  • Think not that the same measure of contemplation and striving with their own affections, is necessary to all; but that an obediential, active life may be as acceptable to God, when he calleth men to it, as a more contemplative life.

  • A few years of active life, extensive and most influential labor, many sheaves and a rich harvest, God's blessing on her service, then illness barring her from the platform.

  • She must not be seen in active life; it is not feminine.

  • It is clear that education, to be what I demand on behalf of women, must be intended to issue in active life.

  • Returning, now, to the rapid induction of sleep, we find that it is usually the experience of people who lead an active life in the open air, and are compelled to endure frequent interruption of their rest.

  • They fall asleep whenever left to themselves, and never seem to be fully aroused to active life.

  • The disappearance of daylight is, for the majority of living creatures, the signal for cessation of active life.

  • All these showed their bent while young, and followed it in active life.

  • What are your ideals, as you stand tiptoe on the threshold of active life?

  • Here still, even here too, is the same contrast so visible in the moving, active life of the city.

  • Touched by her wand, the sleeping dead Spring up to active life again: And in the busy pathway tread, Mingling in our joy and pain.

  • He was an ascetic himself, but saw that some men must lead an active life or the world would come to an end; and although much of his teaching is gloomy, it is generally Scriptural.

  • It was further argued that these tests were the only safeguards which could defend the minds of our youth from the inroads of infidelity, and from the hydra-headed monster of unbelief which was quickening into such active life.

  • There was no region of the globe," says Macaulay, "no walk of speculative or active life in which Jesuits were not to be found.

  • In no modern society, not even in England during the reign of Elizabeth, has there been so great a number of men eminent at once in literature and in the pursuits of active life, as Spain produced during the sixteenth century.

  • It was by circumstances, rather than by any strong bias of inclination, that they were led to take a prominent part in active life.

  • There is little danger that people engaged in the conflicts of active life will be too much addicted to general speculation.

  • I Do all Acts of the Moral Virtues come under the Active Life?

  • Seventhly, because the contemplative life is occupied with Divine things whereas the active life is occupied with human things; whence S.

  • Do all Acts of the Moral Virtues come under the Active Life?


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    active life; active member; active operations; active power; active principle; active service; active verb; active volcanism; active volcano; active volcanoes; active work; anxious look; because faith; books published; experimental psychology; fair proportion; green coat; half speed; open fire; puir body; small stone; something resembling; take position; under oath; water fishes; young children