He devoted himself to medical science and in particular to anatomy, which he much enriched by his researches.
From this time forward public attention was turned from the shrewd business capacity which had enabled him to accumulate such a fortune to the public-spirited way in which he devoted himself to utilizing it on philanthropic objects.
About 1549 he removed to Cologne, where, after a profound study of the points of difference between the Catholic and reformed churches, he devoted himself to the project of reunion, thus anticipating the efforts of Leibnitz.
He served for a while as a saddler's apprentice, and after 1826 devoted himself to the life of a professional guide and hunter.
Thenceforth he devoted himself to study and writing.
He devoted himself to the collection of antiquarian and miscellaneous observations, and gave assistance to Dugdale and Anthony à-Wood in their researches.
For a time he was a professor in a college for negroes in Jamaica, but returning to England in 1876 devoted himself to literature.
Cambridge, where he devoted himself specially to the study of Greek, then newly revived, and of which, having taken a fellowship, he became a teacher.
Owing to the success of a little work, The Mother at Home, he devoted himself, from 1844 onwards, to literature, and especially to historical writing.
Thenceforward he devoted himself to oratorio, in which he made his name famous for all time.
In this direction he devoted himself to practice with such assiduity that he very soon reached a point where his fingers could not keep up with his imagination.
Thereupon the duke broke up his London establishment, and retiring to his estate at Worsley, devoted himself to the making of canals.
His personal property and many of his landed estates were sold, and returning to England he devoted himself to literature.
While his two brothers carried on the business he devoted himself to an academic career.
He devoted himself to the task with the utmost sincerity and earnestness, and he made it the basic principle of his policy to preserve harmony between the Tokugawa and the Toyotomi.
Towards the close of the fifteenth century, a wonderful expert in metals, Goto Yujo, devoted himselfto the production of these ornaments, and his descendants perpetuated his fame down to the middle of the nineteenth century.
He devoted himself to consolidating the system founded by his grandfather, Ieyasu, and he achieved remarkable success by the exercise of exceptional sagacity and determination.
For a time in his earlier life he devoted himself to the study of fishes, because they seemed to promise to throw light on certain problems in human anatomy and pathology.
He devoted himself to the clinical investigation of cases in the military hospital and was especially interested in the study of anatomy.
For two years he devoted himself to the patient study of the application of his method and the appreciation of its possibilities and its limitations.
Laennec's father was a man of culture and intelligence, who, though a lawyer, devoted himself more to literature than his case books.
The latter branch occupied Mr. Hopper's time and attention, and he devoted himself to it with an affectionate and religious earnestness that ceased only with his life.
Under his tuition the mind of Claude began to expand, and he devoted himself to artistic study with great eagerness.
In 1837 he entered the University of Bonn, where he devoted himself to the studies of political and natural science, history, philosophy, &c.
On quitting the army he devoted himself to science, became famous as a magician and alchemist, and was involved in disputes with the churchmen.
He became a ship-chandler at Wapping, devoted himself to antiquarian pursuits, and was for many years secretary to the Society of Antiquaries.
He was educated at the Lycee Charlemagne and the Ecole Normale, Paris; and was sent at Government expense to the French school at Athens; on his return to Paris, he devoted himself to literature.
His parents were Jews, and he was intended for the ministry; but after studying philosophy at Tubingen, Munich and Heidelberg, and becoming estranged from Jewish orthodoxy by the study of Spinoza, he devoted himself to literature.
Augustine now returned for a second time to Carthage, where he devoted himselfzealously to work.
During this period he devoted himself enthusiastically to his art.
From the time of his arrival in Philadelphia he devoted himself to business with an energy and industry which never failed.
The young lawyer at once declared that the care of these dear ones should be his first thought, and he devoted himself to his practice with redoubled energy, in order to provide for them.
During the next five years of peace he devoted himself to the study of military science, engaging once more in active service in the War of 1812.
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