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Example sentences for "common life"

  • It would, perhaps, be running too far out of common Life to urge, that he who is not Master of himself and his own Passions, cannot be a proper Master of another.

  • It is upon this principle that every one carries on the business of common life.

  • All species, however, are connected by a common life, all the stages are but arrests of the same fundamental force.

  • The true or scientific induction[3] thus inculcated is quite different from the credulous induction of common life or the unmethodical induction of Aristotle.

  • As already stated, common life understands by the reasonable man one who not only uses his own thinking powers but is willing to listen to reason as presented by some one else.

  • And it should be the mission of schools like this, and of those who grow up in them, to pour upon all such persons the contempt which they deserve, and to restore the currency of common life to something of Christian purity.

  • The necessity of attending to the duties of common life.

  • But this gigantick and enormous species of anger falls not properly under the animadversion of a writer, whose chief end is the regulation of common life, and whose precepts are to recommend themselves by their general use.

  • When people live together, repress individual desires and participate in a common life we may know that one of the strongest bonds of this social life is fear.

  • A hint of Hamlet's, however, teaches us how the troubles of common life may be ended; and it is perfectly possible for you and me to purchase intellectual peace at the price of intellectual death.

  • The experiences of common life supply us with copious instances of the liberation of vast stores of muscular power by an infinitesimal 'priming' of the muscles by the nerves.

  • In common life he was probably one of those who please by not offending, and whose person was loved because his writings were admired.

  • Before the Tatler and Spectator, if the writers for the theatre are excepted, England had no masters of common life.

  • Depend upon it, unless your common life is made a part of your religion, your religion will never sanctify your common life.

  • The full complete claim of the Church is that it is a body visibly meeting together in a common life, and forming by historical continuity a part of the actual body founded by our Lord Himself.

  • He finds the origin of temporal rule in the social nature of man, accepting and making his own the Aristotelian account of man as by nature a being fitted for a common life.

  • Whereas Grendel remains a possibility in the middle of common life, long after the last dragon has been disposed of.

  • For many readers this is an advantage; if the Sagas are thereby made inferior to Homer, they are all the closer to modern stories of "common life.

  • The "common life" of the Homeric poems may appeal to modern pedantic theorists, and be used by them in support of Euripidean or Wordsworthian receipts for literature.

  • Thus in many pious minds there is a tendency to regard all the actions of common life as so much, by an unfortunate necessity, lost to religion.

  • He certainly began, in 1726, to employ his pen more frequently on the real business of common life.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    but presently; calcined magnesia; common ancestor; common cause; common centre; common conversation; common denominator; common enough; common friend; common fund; common interest; common justice; common name; common opinion; common origin; common parlance; common purpose; common roads; common sense; common soldier; common species; common time; cool cellar; executive authority; will shortly; your honor