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Example sentences for "civilized life"

  • Many of the tribes have already made great progress in the arts of civilized life.

  • Its actual state is characteristic of that general ignorance of the ornamental, as well as of the useful arts of civilized life, which I have already hinted at on several occasions.

  • Bold and enterprising in their maritime excursions, they hold the peaceful arts of civilized life almost in contempt.

  • From the most of their possessions they were forcibly ejected at the peril of life as well as liberty; and from the remainder they were driven by a policy which in civilized life would be held and treated as knavery.

  • Again, the Southern system, by making the African a part of the family circle, brings him into more immediate contact with the habits of civilized life, and cultivates a high degree of sympathy between him and his owners.

  • It also follows, that a race of men whose intellects have been long stultified by ages of barbarism, cannot, by any contact with the principles and usages of civilized life, be speedily thrown up to an elevated platform.

  • In certain higher forms of savage and half-civilized life we find the conception of a definite contrast between the two sets of Powers.

  • The honor of the family is involved, and this fact, together with the natural desire for pleasure, has contributed to the development of the custom in savage as well as in civilized life.

  • It is the intense competition of civilized life, that gives rise to the excessive cheapness of labor, and the excessive cheapness of labor is the cause of the evils in question.

  • Many who were a few years ago in hostile conflict with the Government are quietly settling down on farms where they hope to make their permanent homes, building houses and engaging in the occupations of civilized life.

  • It may be very difficult and require much patient effort to curb the unruly spirit of the savage Indian to the restraints of civilized life, but experience shows that it is not impossible.

  • It is in scenes like this, far removed from the bustle, the strife, and the sin of civilized life, that we most fully realize the presence of the great Author of the Universe.

  • These drastic operations on the part of military authorities, so foreign to the normal course of civilized life, naturally aroused intense and bitter hostility.

  • Then followed the farmers, masters of the ax and plow, with their wives who shared every burden and hardship and introduced some of the features of civilized life.

  • Examples in proof of the first position are found in the necessary and long-continued exertions before we become adepts in the arts and practices of civilized life.

  • It will be admitted now on every hand that the only solution of the Indian problem involves the entire change of these people from a savage to a civilized life.

  • The savage does not labor for the gratifications of civilized life, since he does not desire these.

  • Such is the spirit begotten of that ten years' war in the character of Ulysses, a spirit of violence and rapine, totally unfitted for a civilized life, at bottom negative to Family and State.

  • He has shown himself as the representative of three mighty negations: of civilized life, of religious life, and of human life.

  • Civilized life assumes an external appearance corresponding to itself; it remodels the physical world after its own pattern.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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