Not for him were the common enjoymentsand excitements of the pursuit.
The mercenary spirit must not be admitted to a share in the enjoyments of the book-hunter.
To despise money, is to despise happiness, liberty, in short, enjoyments of every kind.
We then sing his praises, and execute dances expressive of our thankfulness, and of all the enjoyments we owe to this beneficent deity.
It is in your family that my taste for domestic society and domestic enjoyments has been nurtured and preserved.
But how easily are many of the reputed enjoyments of the world to be broken?
Thus she unfits you for the most rational of the enjoyments of the world, in which you are designed to live.
In proportion as these have been frequently resorted to, they will have got into the habit as the necessary enjoyments of life.
The nerves, being thus deprived of a sufficiency of their animal spirits, must become languid, and leave every sense void of the first means of conveying to the mind the only enjoyments of our temporal existence.
The body being thus relieved from obstructions, its circulations restored, the digestive faculties invigorated, and the spirits re-animated, the debilitated constitution is reinstated in all its enjoyments of health and hilarity.
But to Cicero it must have been one of the enjoyments of his life.
They had many enjoyments in common, and certain little adventures of such a nature as men always recollect with pleasure when they afterwards meet in the world.
These are some of the enjoyments of the way; but every thoughtful and observing traveller knows that they cannot be enumerated.
He should be in harmony with Nature; he should have an observing eye to enjoy the latent enjoyments of the way.
The enjoyments He bestows and the labors He appoints are calculated to minister to godliness,--and yet they may be perverted to idolatry by our forgetting Him on whom our highest thoughts should be fixt.
We are travelers through the desert; for tho the enjoyments of earth are many, yet this life, compared with what is to come, is a wilderness.
But that man lacks a part of the enjoyments I possess, immaterial enjoyments to which he is abundantly entitled, he the workman in the vast temple which the heavens are vast enough to embrace.
Taxes on real enjoyments to be kept as equal as possible for large and small means.
If the American could purchase at English prices, he would have no less than 37 per cent of a surplus for additional enjoyments (after making due allowance for the higher rents paid here than in England).
The capital of the employer forms the revenue of the laborers, and, if this exceeds the necessaries of life, it gives them a surplus which they may either expend in enjoyments or save.
Thou alone art my master; and from the fervour of thy fire stream forth all the pleasures and enjoyments of this life!
Its enjoyments are but of short duration, and one may well say, that there rests on them a curse.
These particular enjoyments make up the sum total of our happiness, and they are supposed to arise from riches, honours, and the gratification of sensual appetites.
All the common enjoyments of life are from the faculties He hath endued us with and the objects He hath made suitable to them.
Our being and all our enjoyments are the effects of it: just men bear its resemblance; but how little do we know of the original, of what it is in itself?
Every one of our passions and affections hath its natural stint and bound, which may easily be exceeded; whereas our enjoyments can possibly be but in a determinate measure and degree.
Man's affections and desires, his loves and hatreds, his enjoyments and aversions, constitute a domain where the ethical distinctions are to be applied.
Mere pleasures or enjoyments which are apart from his essential character he may, indeed, disregard, but not what concerns its intended excellence and honor.
To hunt for pleasures while exposing oneself to the risk of pain is folly; to escape suffering even at the sacrifice of enjoyments is worldly wisdom.
Let the concocters of romances and other imaginary tales say what they please of the joys of returning home; give me the happiness of a good departure, and a boundless world of untried enjoyments ahead.
Or wherefore should he sigh to quit those enjoyments in which he cannot honourably participate till he has earned his title to them by hardy service?
But as these reflections interfered rather impertinently with the enjoyments of the hour, they were crushed down, and kept out of sight as much as possible at that gay period.
Whilst having had reason to appreciate the value of money, he esteems it not so much on its own account as on account of the domestic comforts and enjoyments its judicious expenditure brings.
His earliest recollections were of rural life, its boyish enjoyments and boyish tasks.
His leisure is spent in the enjoyments of his beautiful home and in the cultivation of a fine artistic taste which has been developed and gratified by a tour among the principal art centers of Europe.
The industrious man is seldom found guilty of a crime; for he has no time to listen to the enticings of the wicked one, and he is content with the enjoyments honest effort affords.
The elder son was sober, industrious, and found in the care of the flocks and the quiet enjoyments of rural life enough to occupy and interest him.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "enjoyments" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
