We should reflect that the earliest intellectual exercise to which a young nation devotesitself is the study of its laws.
To the accomplishment of this end, it has sacrificed the individual, man as well as woman; for we must not shut our eyes to the fact that a married man devotes his energy, his power, and all his possession to his wife.
Four hours a day he devotes to finishing his two plays.
In his Universal History he devotes much space to questions of race and primitive religions in the historical evolution of humanity.
Carlyle devotes six large volumes to the History of Frederick the Great, and such authorities as Freeman and Stubbs and Gardiner and Gairdner gave years of patient research to the investigation of single periods of English history.
Herodotus, though ostensibly writing of the Persian war, devotes whole sections of his history to Egypt, and accepts, as did his countrymen, the Egyptian claims to immense antiquity without a scruple.
It is said he not unfrequently devotes a week to the composition of a single discourse.
The day that passes over him is the day to which hedevotes his energies.
But it is to sheer description that the poet chiefly devotes himself--description of the charging boar, description of the fair young body bathed in blood, and so forth.
If that be the case, the most charitable man, after all, is he who devotes some of his time, thought, and energy to political and social reform.
The whole subject was properly introduced by Treviranus,[1] who in his large philosophical work devotes considerable space to the "geographical distribution of animals.
It is a curious thing that the prophet assumes the role of a moral censor, and devotes much the greater part of his energies to confusing the moral issues, to obliterating moral distinctions, and to blunting the ethical sense.
We almost hesitate to waste our own and our readers' time on a writer who, professing to vindicate Mr Freeman's view as against us, devotes his energies to proving that view to be utterly absurd.
The London Magazine for 1751 devotes the first nine columns of its December number to a resume of the novel, and continues this compliment in another nine columns of appendix.
Under the heading of a "Plan of a late celebrated NOVEL," the Magazine devotes its five opening pages to a summary of a book "which has given great Amusement and we hope Instruction to the polite Part of the Town.
Stratton did not insist that every nurse of the future must be a Patti, a Melba, or a Nordica; but he held that in the future a young woman who devotes her life to nursing the sick should be able to sing to the patient under her care.
Peter Joseph Schneider, wherein the author devotesseveral pages to this interesting theme.
But whether a man devotes himself to God and to prayer, or devotes himself to man and to politics or science, he is actuated by the same impulse--by the desire for what is good.
We, in conclusion may mention among the summer pleasures of the student, the game at nine-pins, to which the son of Minerva devotes many an hour.
The man content with small means does his best work, devotes his energies to that which is worth while, and not to acquiring that which has no value.
The man wastes his soul who devotes its forces only to accumulating wealth.
To this Piero answered, and spoke the truth: “Your Benvenuto will get much more honour and profit if he devotes himself to the goldsmiths trade than to this piping.
He devotes an important chapter to this matter, and brings forward numerous cases in illustration (Adler, Die Mangelhafte Geschlechtsempfindung des Weibes, pp.
The Jewish is not the purely egoistic, because the Jew still devotes himself to Jehovah; the Christian is not, because the Christian lives on the grace of God and subjects himself to him.
He who only serves the cause, "devotes himself entirely to it," has the true freedom.
That man who devotes himself to only one of them is certainly not a superior person.
He, on the other hand, is really emancipate who devotes himself to Brahma, that sole seat of tranquillity.
Whether he does or does not achieve anything else, if he devotes himself to the study of the Vedas, he becomes (by that) known as a Brahmana or the friend of all creatures.
He never devotes himself to the happiness obtainable from the gratification of desire.
That person who renounces all ordinary acts, practises penances, devotes himself to study the Soul, taking a delight therein, and regards himself as the Soul of all creatures, acquires a high end.
Whatever be the object to which one devotes oneself, that object, O Bharata, and nothing else, appears to one as the highest of acquisitions fraught with the greatest of blessings.
He is said to be middling who devotes himself to only two of them.
What is stated in this verse is that one ho casts off all attachments, and who devotes himself to Yoga, succeeds in attaining to the felicity of Emancipation.
The ascetic who desires to discriminate with exactitude between good and evil, who is always bent on understanding the nature of the Soul, and who devotes himself to the religion of Nivritti, attains to that high end.
How could the man who devotes the whole of his time to the acquisition of sciences, expect to express himself well, if he neglects to study the only art which can teach him the means of speaking fluently and extempore?
The hours from ten to twelve hedevotes to the compilation of his Memoirs in fifty-four volumes.
Formerly, he often used to work as long as ten hours, but now he devotes only three or four hours a day to literary work.
He never devotes more than three hours a day to literary labor, generally less than that, but spends almost all day in thinking over the plots of his novels.
He writes with great facility and rapidity; and devotes nine hours a day to literary work.
Generally he spends from three to four hours at the writing-desk and devotes the rest of the day to recreation.
He devotes about five hours a day to literary work, exclusive of letter-writing and the discharge of his editorial duties.
The time which he devotes daily to literary work varies.
Winterfeld, the German humorist, devotes the day only to literary work.
He retains his health by taking a daily walk, rain or shine, to which he devotes two hours.
August Niemann, the German novelist, devotes the forenoon to literary work, but never burns midnight-oil on his writing-desk.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "devotes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
