Letter from a citizen of Manila to an absent friend.
You all know that-- "John Gilpin was a citizen Of credit and reknown, A train-band captain eke was he Of famous London town.
To the Roman people were left the gardens which he possessed on the other side of the Tiber; and to every citizen three hundred sesterces.
He was not without a certain crude philosophy, and it had been his dream to acquire by some brilliant coup a sufficient fortune upon which to retire and live as a decent, law-abiding citizen for the remainder of his days.
This instance of Ephesian intolerance gives occasion for an enunciation of the Stoic doctrine that the only real freedom is moral freedom, and moral freedom constitutes a man a citizen of the world.
The confidence of this divine purpose mingles with and reinforces the confidence of the Roman citizen in his appeal to Caesar.
Certainly Paul the apostle to the Gentiles was also Saul of Tarsus and the citizen of the Roman Empire in whose mind the idea and sentiment of the empire lay already side by side with the idea of the catholic church.
It records the name of a worthy citizen of his day, one Simon Franque.
Here Fritz first participated in the Communion and has left a remarkable record of his emotional experience at "becoming a citizen in the city of God.
Instead of the individual holding "definite place in regard to Yahweh only through his citizenship," now the nation has its place and its future secured only by the personal love of each citizen to God.
Keimer of Mr. Bradford, supposing him to be a citizen of Philadelphia.
Franklin went forward with his enterprise, and every citizen appealed to accepted his proposition; and out of it grew a general interest to pave the streets of the city.
Not long after Benjamin became a printer, a prominent citizen of Boston, Matthew Adams, who had heard of his talents and love of reading, met him in the printing office, and entered into conversation with him.
There he met a citizen of the latter place, of whom he made inquiries as to the business of the town.
I am going to live here if I can find work, as I expect to, and become a citizen of this town.
From a citizen of that town, of whom I was inquiring about the business of the place.
It is not only practical, but it can be done very easily; every citizenmust appreciate the measure.
With the citizen body of Philadelphia he was on fairly good terms,--popular during the early days of his administration, although somewhat offensive of late because of his indiscretion and impetuosity.
I feel, too, that I have an inalienable right as a free-born citizen to express my views freely and publicly, as befits a loyal adherent of the principles which we are now defending with our blood.
Better the grave of the meanest citizen than the mausoleum of a traitor.
She demands of us a living example of freedom that may exhibit a contrast in the felicity of the citizen to the ever increasing tyranny which devastates her polluted shores.
In America the government takes from the liberty of the citizenonly so much as is necessary for the weal of the nation, which the citizen by his own act freely concedes.
We have witnessed on many occasions here the foreign, the adopted, citizen claiming many rights and privileges because he was an adopted citizen.
With Americans, whenever the organized government does not prove its grant, the liberty of the individual citizen is sacred and inviolable.
Every United States judge is a citizen of some state.
There is no other privilege that a native, no matter what he has done for the country, has that the adopted citizen of five years' standing has not got.
That was an occasion, my countrymen, when it was greater to be an American citizen than to wear a crown.
The citizen must maintain his rights and settle his grievances before tribunals organized according to law, upon principles of justice and of right.
Are the dearest rights of the American citizen to be abridged in this summary manner?
The last we saw of the odoriferous citizen he was trying to bribe the bar-tender to tell him which one of those pelicans it was that put that slice of cheese in his hat-lining.
A bald-headed citizen who sat next to her looked around at the woman in astonishment, and took up his overcoat and moved to another seat.
The citizen asked the prisoner how he was fixed for money to buy tobacco in prison.
The citizen gave him the dollar and said: "Now, every time you take a chew of tobacco in prison, just make up your mind to be square when you get out.
The attention of the citizen was called to the prisoner by his repulsive appearance, and his general don't-care-a-damative appearance.
Come, prince, pick up courage; there still remains in our monarchy a fine opening at your disposal, a position such as la Fayette might occupy in a Republic, that of the first citizen of France.
Then he deserves his punishment: his mistress is not called the Princesse de Chimay, she is called citizen Tallien.
And now he was preparing to return to his own country and his own children to take up again the course of his life as a simple American citizen at home.
He was simply but solemnly ordained "Citizen of the Belgian Nation, and Friend of the Belgian People.
It would only be fair to add to his Belgian citation the larger one of American Citizen of the World and Friend of All the People.
And there was no man in the world to whom the Poles could wish to do more honor than to this uncrowned simple American citizen whose name was for them the synonym of savior.
Then Hoover came back to America to be an American private citizen again.
And the key point is--the ffuts and the essential gadgetry using it are cheap to make in quantity, easy to handle--the perfect weapon for the citizen soldier.
The American colonists back in 1776 relied on citizen levies and weapons were so cheap and simple that almost anyone could obtain them.
Dufour, Louis, citizen of Geneva sent to persuade Calvin to return, 125.
Every female citizen having the qualifications of a male voter may vote in the city and town elections for members of the school committee.
Toberman, destined to be twice rechosen Mayor of Los Angeles, was first elected in 1873, defeating Cristobal Aguilar, an honored citizen of early days, who had thrice been Mayor and was again a candidate.
Robert Thompson, a citizen who sprang to Bilderrain's assistance, was met by a Chinaman with two revolvers and shot to death.
Ward--a good citizen whose office was in the renovated municipal adobe--operated with Santa Monica realty during the Boom, somewhat as did Colonel Tom Fitch in the cradle days of the bay city.
Osborne--always a foremost citizen of the town and in 1912 a most energetic President of the Chamber of Commerce--and E.
Few City ordinances were obeyed; for notwithstanding that a regulation of the City Council called on every citizen to sweep in front of his house to a certain point on Saturday evenings, not the slightest attention was paid to it.
When a well-known suburb of Los Angeles was laid out, someone proposed that a road be named Euclid Avenue; whereupon a prominent citizen protested vigorously and asked what Mr. Euclid had ever done for Southern California?
Give some reasons why every citizen of the United States should be interested in Washington.
Every citizen of the United States thinks of the city of Washington as a place in which he has a personal pride.
One day the honest citizen drew a cordon of police around the Place Sadi Carnot, with orders to let no soldiers pass, and thought he would now have the music all for himself.
The honest citizen of Sidi-bel-Abbes despised the soldier of the Legion--but he tolerated the horrors of the village negre.
The American mercenary is looked upon as an American citizen and has to take the oath of allegiance.
Slowly and unostentatiously I crossed the promenade as though I were merely a respectable citizen out for a stroll.
Since that time the honestcitizen of Sidi-bel-Abbes has been rather more careful in his treatment of the Legion.
The honest citizen has learnt to respect the Legion's feelings.
Fortune had denied him nothing which the subject and the citizen could lawfully enjoy.
The ravages of the Imperialist and Spanish troops also powerfully aided him in these quarters; where the ill-treated husbandman and citizen sighed alike for a deliverer, and where the mere change of yoke seemed to promise a relief.
I believe I see, even in my life-time, the coming of a kind of man and a kind of life that shall come pretty near to being the model American citizen and the model American way to live.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "citizen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
