But here a question has been raised, whether all men ought not to be husbandmen, or at least whether they ought not to devote themselves to manual labor?
For the religious settlement was an endowed college where girls were received to be trained, and where women who wished to devote themselves to learning and the arts permanently resided.
When their education was finished the girls returned to their parents, but they found no scope for their energies at home and decided to devote themselves to religion.
Accordingly, the mediaeval genius shows somewhat more palely in its intellectual productions, than in the more emotional phases of literature and art.
Caesar tells the story of this martyrdom in all its causes and details of plot.
When and how I see it I cannot tell; but sometimes when I see it, all sadness and pain is lifted from me, and then I have the ways of a simple girl and not those of an old woman.
After his death, for some three centuries, theologians were to devote themselves to mastering the great heritage from the Church Fathers.
Those who have been very successful in their first efforts in a small way seldom lack perfect confidence in their ability to make good on any scale if once they are in a position to devote themselves entirely to this work.
If we have tranquillity enough, that all the free- born youth now in England, who are rich enough to be able to devote themselves to it .
He urged the monks to study, and those who had no head for learning he advised to read Cato and Columella on agriculture, and then to devote themselves to it.
The more exclusively the people of India can be forced to devote themselves to the raising of cotton and sugar, the cheaper they will be, and the larger will be the British revenue.
Nevertheless they may be easily persuaded to devote themselves to any thing useful, and have thus engaged both in science and letters.
They were, therefore, able to dispense with a military establishment, to turn all their thoughts and energies to their domestic concerns, and to devote themselves exclusively to the work of colonisation.
The physical exertions, to which all were obliged to devote themselves in common, in order to defend themselves from famine and the savages, strengthened their habits and feelings of equality.
Especially is this the case in spiritual affairs, when moreover it is becoming that they should take oath on days of solemnity, since they ought then to devote themselves to spiritual matters.
If, however, none be found to devote themselves gratuitously to services of this kind, the ordinary prelate is bound, if he cannot suffice by himself, to seek other suitable persons and support them himself.
The authors were chiefly cultivated Marranos, who had escaped from the Spanish or Portuguese prisons of the Inquisition to devote themselves in free Holland to their faith and free inquiry.
Only men of rare genius, amidst such oppressive circumstances, retain courage and serenity to devote themselves to the fine arts and the sciences.
In a country like this, where most men have to carve out their own fortunes and devote themselves early to the practical affairs of life, comparatively few can hope to pursue their studies up to, still less beyond, the age of manhood.
For the most part, women prefer to devote themselves to mathematics.
During the rest of the time they were free to devote themselves to any subject in which they might be interested and had ample time for teaching.
It might go to the support of the institution, and those who saw proper to devote themselves to teaching might throw their profits into the general fund.
In Switzerland, families, for generation after generation, devote themselves to making particular parts of watches.
Special arrangements are made with pupils who intend to devote themselves to the profession as artists or teachers.
The popularity of photographs has caused many portrait and miniature painters to devote themselves to that branch of art.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "devote themselves" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
