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Example sentences for "human life"

  • When "the wheel has come full circle" we do not begin again with a new period of human life; but we have passed from the best to the worst, and there we end.

  • I think that they have, and for the reasons which to have given; but still I should like to examine further, for no light matter is at stake, nothing less than the rule of human life.

  • He is full of quickness and penetration, piercing easily below the clumsy platitudes of Thrasymachus to the real difficulty; he turns out to the light the seamy side of human life, and yet does not lose faith in the just and true.

  • Self cultivation is, in his view, the sole sufficient object of human life, with due regard for others.

  • Contempt of human life, the fury of private revenge and the spirit of atrocious perfidy were characteristic of the luxurious Italian renaissance.

  • If she can do this, then is she competent to voice her judgment on the most profound of all mysteries--human life.

  • As if it could possibly signify when we live (save and excepting the present minute), or as if the value of human life decreased or increased with successive centuries.

  • On the other hand, I conceive that the past is as real and substantial a part of our being, that it is as much a bona fide, undeniable consideration in the estimate of human life, as the future can possibly be.

  • When 'the wheel has come full circle' we do not begin again with a new period of human life; but we have passed from the best to the worst, and there we end.

  • Nothing is concluded; but the tendency of the dialectical process, here as always, is to enlarge our conception of ideas, and to widen their application to human life.

  • It was popularly believed that the earth was deeply tainted with infection, and could not be disturbed without imminent risk to human life.

  • In a week the peasant was driving his team and the esquire flying his hawks over the field of Towton or of Bosworth, as if no extraordinary event had interrupted the regular course of human life.

  • Measured by the duration of human life it is a vast space of time between that first dynasty in Egypt and the coming of the aeroplane, but by the scale that looks back to the makers of the eoliths, it is all of it a story of yesterday.

  • From the beginning to the ripening of that phase of human life, from the first clumsy eolith of rudely chipped flint to the first implements of polished stone, was two or three thousand centuries, ten or fifteen thousand generations.

  • All that was then, no doubt, very moving and original; now it seems only the most obvious commonplace of human life.

  • A very frequent one of these, and the most destructive to human life of them all, is the earthquake.

  • Fortunately, owing to the nature of the district through which the lava passed, there was on this occasion no loss of human life.

  • In human life there is much that is ignoble, and the race has almost contemptible weakness and insignificance in comparison with the physical forces of the universe.

  • While the volcano usually has a greater permanent effect upon surface conditions, it is, as a rule, much less destructive to human life, the earthquake often shaking down cities and burying all their inhabitants in one common grave.

  • The long interval between them [57] exceeded the term of human life; and as none of the spectators had already seen them, none could flatter themselves with the expectation of beholding them a second time.

  • They adored the great visible objects and agents of nature, the Sun and the Moon, the Fire and the Earth; together with those imaginary deities, who were supposed to preside over the most important occupations of human life.

  • Patience is realistic, and though it may seek perfection it puts up with imperfection as a part of human life.

  • The simple reflex, immediate response to a stimulus, has only a limited field in human life or adult life.

  • Each one is an entire emblem of human life; of its good and ill, its trials, its enemies, its course and its end.

  • How much of human life is lost in waiting!

  • Human life, as containing this, is mysterious and inviolable, and we hedge it round with penalties and laws.

  • I designed to add two more, but my lungs played me false with unseasonable inflammation, so I discoursed no more on Human Life.

  • In contemplating the brief duration and the uncertainty of human life, the idea must necessarily have occurred, that we might survive those we loved, or that they might survive us.

  • These observations lead, by a natural transition, to the question of the true estimate and value of human life, considered as the means of the operations of intellect.

  • Declaimers are perpetually expatiating to us upon the shortness of human life.

  • Human life consists of years, months and days: each day contains twenty-four hours.

  • A composition, in prose or poetry, accommodated to action, and intended to exhibit a picture of human life, or to depict a series of grave or humorous actions of more than ordinary interest, tending toward some striking result.

  • Parc\'91, or Fates; the supposed powers which preside over human life, and determine its circumstances and duration.

  • It is true, that this end will not be attained without what is called nowadays "a destruction of human life.

  • The world is little, people are little, human life is little.

  • They taught me the inevitable hardness of human life.

  • They live like insects, absorbed in petty activities that seem to have nothing to do with any genial aspect of human life.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    higher vertebrates; human acts; human effort; human evolution; human felicity; human figure; human history; human interest; human justice; human knowledge; human labor; human labour; human liberty; human mind; human origin; human progress; human prudence; human shape; human slavery; human souls; human spirit; human suffering; human things; human understanding; human victim; human will