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Example sentences for "political life"

  • Speaking generally, wealth may very greatly influence modern political life, but it is not acquired in political life.

  • Perhaps the most important thing the ordinary citizen, and, above all, the leader of ordinary citizens, has to remember in political life is that he must not be a sheer doctrinaire.

  • Even at this time he was a power in political life; his was an influence with which statesmen and even sovereigns had to reckon.

  • Carteret had one great advantage over Walpole and over all his contemporaries in political life--he was able to speak German fluently; he was able to talk for hours with the King in the King's own guttural tongue.

  • A country like this is never so barren of political intellect and courage as to admit of a long dictatorship in political life.

  • There was such a jumble of wrecks of party in the church that I forgot the sermon and fell to moralising on the vanity of political life.

  • Dix had one great advantage over most of his contemporaries in political life--he was able to write editorials for the Argus.

  • It is too philosophical to be generally read, but it will raise his reputation in the opinion of those who do read it, and will not embarrass him so much in political life as a popular quotable book on such subjects might be apt to do.

  • Yet I for one do not regret that Mr. Gladstone thus took his leave of political life.

  • But let me tell you that the delight of political life is altogether in opposition.

  • Perhaps there is no question more difficult to a man's mind than that of the expediency or inexpediency of scruples in political life.

  • These things will occur in political life," said the leader; "but I think that they seldom leave rancour behind them when the purpose is declared, and when the subject of disagreement is marked and understood.

  • They were either themselves actively engaged in political life, or living in intimacy with those who were so engaged.

  • The cause of the sudden and permanent decline of Roman oratory was the extinction of political life.

  • Virgil, again, has no sympathy with political life, as it realised itself in the ancient republics, or with the energetic types of character which the conflicts of political life develope.

  • He had always taken the keenest interest in the great questions which agitated the political life of the waning eighteenth century.

  • The restless energy which he could no longer dedicate to active service he resolved most unhappily to devote to political life.

  • When Pitt came to power the Prince of Wales was, and had been for some time, a conspicuous figure in society, a fitful element in political life, and a subject of considerable scandal to the public mind.

  • The conditions of political life in England in the eighteenth century made it impossible for such a man as Samuel Johnson ever to be the chosen counsellor, the minister of an English king.

  • They must have felt, and strongly felt, their justification for entering on a course which was destined to prove so disastrous.

  • At the opening of 1886 he was, what he had been during all his previous political life, a flaming democrat and Radical.

  • To a distant observer the policy of the Liberal party might have seemed just the same after Mr. Gladstone had retired from politics as it was when he was in the front of political life.

  • It has under his guidance become once again a powerful force in political life.

  • The picture it displays is no better in social life than in political life.

  • It is evident, therefore, that universal manhood suffrage, even when combined with general education, is still insufficient for the task of purifying either social or political life.

  • This aspect of political life is not peculiar to England.

  • Women are not banished from the political life of England.

  • Political life at Rome had always been expensive in so far as office was unpaid and its tenure implied leisure and a considerable degree of neglect of his own domestic concerns in the patriot who was willing to accept it.

  • And so should I be if I were to estimate its results by a comparison with the anticipations which, from a distance and in the abstract, I had once entertained of political life.

  • Thinks that a torpid state of political life is unfavourable to intellectual product in general.

  • He appeared to me to treat the sad realities of political life as materials out of which he could compose strange and picturesque scenes, or draw food for his imagination and his vanity.

  • Nowhere was the city a thing of purely native growth, nowhere was the independent city the ruling political idea around which all political life gathered.

  • Wherever Rome’s political life spread, some measure, greater or less, of Greek intellectual life spread with it.

  • But we may be sure that no confederation of old Greece kept anything like such a measure of political life as that which Strabo saw at work in Lykia.

  • And the Greek city-commonwealth, fully free and independent, was still a familiar form of political life; nor need it shock us that the purest and noblest example of a Greek democracy was now to be found, not at Athens but at Rhodes.


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