Although only forty years of age, he abandonedpolitics and law for the ministry of the Gospel.
The House of Austria, without making any military preparations, had conquered, and the great war of religion and politics was postponed for half a dozen years.
Surely it might be said that the winds and tides were not more changeful than the politics of the Queen's government.
Lord Edmond Fitzmaurice and Mr. Ralli came in and talkedpolitics furiously.
If King Alfred had been alive now, he would have been far too old to have taken part in politics at all!
The highest in rank and repute were the Hetairae, or kept women, who lived in the best part of the city, and exercised no small influence over the manners and even the politics of the state.
If anybody touched them he would not object to politics then.
It is an illustration of the singular complexity and paradoxical positions of politics that those who are naturally so opposed, should thus form the closest friends and allies.
Lady Lugard, another writer in this field, believes that it is not merely an authentic narrative but is an unusually valuable document since it throws unconscious light upon the life, manners, politicsand literature of that country.
Without regard to their more recent internalpolitics and modern difficulties, the recognition of these republics as independent powers forms one of the great landmarks in the Negro's progress toward democracy, and justice.
There the average man who was interested inpolitics had wealth and generations of education and culture back of him.
They then had nothing to fear and nothing to lose by being identified with the Republican party when social distinctions growing out of politics ceased to be effective.
McDonald's Trade, Politics and Christianity in Africa and the East.
It seems that because of his unusual learning and knowledge of politics and government he was employed by the pashas in diplomatic affairs.
They were in reality the result of applying to the sphere of politics the logical implications of doctrines preached by the Protestant reformers of a century or two earlier in their revolt against the authority of tradition.
Trade Politicsand Christianity in Africa and the East.
This is all the more satisfactory because he is no kinsman of mine, and in fact is not on the same side in politics as my uncle.
He could not boast of any victories, and he belonged to a nation which had ceased to be a factor of importance in the politics of the world, but the credit of this invention gave him, he believed, a rank among the great soldiers of history.
Polybius was recognized by one of the professors, who had been glad to leave the thankless politics of Greece for a quiet competence in this abode of learning, and was invited by the professor to take dinner in the great banqueting-hall.
Socrates' belief that politics cannot be taught provokes one of the long speeches to which Plato strongly objected because a fundamental fallacy could not be refuted at the outset, vitiating the whole of the subsequent argument.
An exhortation to personal service is succeeded by a protest against a parochial view of politics which causes petty jealousies and paralyses joint action.
Courtier and patriot can not mix Their ---- politics Without an effervescence.
And after all, the abominations of New York's politics are only a few degrees more repellent than the cruelties and pusillanimities of her self-styled patrician horde.
What a leading journal has said in regard to the Indians may be repeated here as applicable to the negro: "The most crying need in Indian [negro] affairs is its disentanglement from politics and political manipulations.
But the practical politics of the present deal with a society where a strong arm is needed to protect the weak from the tyranny of the giants.
There are, besides, a host of minor differences between the Swiss and American Constitutions, of more or less interest to students of politics and economics.
Politics dropped, for the joyous juice of the grape soon melted us all into one mind; and a hundred topics of more pleasing interest were started, in which the strangers could join without fear of any angry discussion.
At length one of the company became somewhat impatient, and, watching for a pause, asked his host if it were the custom in Ireland to discuss Orange politics with empty glasses?
Every one acquainted with Trinidad politics knows very well the ineffably low dodges and subterfuges under which the Arima Railway was prevented from having its terminus in the centre of that town.
Persons acquainted with the stormypolitics of that lovely little island do not require to be informed that the bitterest animosity had for years been raging between Dr.
Politics do not necessarily mean party politics, though in this country, at this moment, the one runs dangerously near to implying the other.
It is not the business of a man of letters to take his politics either from a Monarch or a Mob, or to push his fortunes--slightly to alter a celebrated phrase--by those services which demagogues render to crowds.
There was no room for a self-respecting man of letters in French politics during the reign of Napoleon I.
For men of letters to be willing to interest themselves in politics, politics generally, must be interesting.
What real man of letters that ever ventured into the arid and somewhat vulgar domain of Party-politics has not felt the same feeling of revulsion, the same longing for the water-brooks?
As to the state of partypolitics in Japan, to whose development the marquis himself has made a notable contribution, we shall discuss it at length in the following chapter.
On the basis of the important changes that have taken place in the administration and politics of Japan, her history will, in the following pages, be divided into three parts of unequal lengths.
No student of the Japanese politics of to-day can fail to observe the large place Marquis Ito occupies therein as the pilot of the state, and also his full consciousness of the fact.
Let us pause a moment to examine the nature of the Japanese land tax, without an understanding of which neither the past nor the future of the parliamentary politics will be comprehended with sufficient clearness.
The state of internal politicsalso has taken an evolution correspondingly significant.
An account of this important warfare will be found in its proper place, and it suffices here to point out its interesting effect on the parliamentary politics of Japan.
The eighteenth diet, which was prorogued on June 5, left the politics of Japan in an even more confused state than before its opening.
The control of affairs relating to lands, to the army, to finance, and to everything included in the domain of practical politics rested absolutely in the hands of the shogun.
It is necessary, however, to note that the Korean resistance was a result of the extremely unstable politics at Seul which had enabled the pro-Chinese, corruptionist family of the Min temporarily to control the situation.
Mr. Oldershaw relates that his own father, who was a Conservative in politics and had also joined the Catholic Church, seriously warned him against the Agnosticism and Republicanism of the Chesterton household.
And when the critic of politics and literature, feeling that this war is after all heroic, looks around him to find the hero, he can point to nothing but a mob.
If ever that people enters politics it will sweep away most of our revolutionists as mere pedants.
Politics would never have been my province, either in the highest or the lowest sense.
Whether he had made any in the world of politics I do not know, but he certainly felt no enmities.
As a boy Gilbert Chesterton spoke of politics as absorbing "for every ardent intellect"; and during these years he was himself deeply concerned with the politics of England.
Washington he saw both as a beautiful city and an idea--"a sort of paradise of impersonal politics without personal commerce.
And anybody who has thought about history or looked on at politics must have reflected that freedom resides where there is order and not where there is license: or no-order.
Politics and nothing but politics is dull work though, and an intriguer's life must be a pretty poor affair.
He imagines that in those pre-war politics Liberalism was on the side of Labour.
He was in fact the young man he himself was later to describe as knowing all about politics and nothing about politicians.
As an element of the politics of this country its aspect is wholly changed, and there is no sort of consistency in upholding our opinions of four years ago in reference to it.
A few noble men had lifted their voices against the rampant tyranny of the slaveholders: chief among these was John Quincy Adams, the John the Baptist crying in the desert of American partisanpolitics the coming of the kingdom of Heaven!
There was a balance of opinion, but politics turned the scale.
They were well-meaning and patriotic men, but it was not always easy to get them to prefer politics to fox-hunting.
But politics intervened, and little progress was made.
The old sage who held that the first Whig was the Devil, was yet compelled to forgive Burke's politics for the sake of his magnificent gifts.
I cannot persuade myself that any examples or any reasonings drawn from other wars and other politicsare at all applicable to it" (Corr.
It is a great mistake to suppose that because he took no great part in politics he had no interest in the practical questions of his time, or that he was so immersed in metaphysics as to live in the clouds.
His poems were a liberal education in the manners and customs of "the gorgeous East," in the scenery, the art, the history and politics of Italy and Greece.
The politics of the Revolution neither interested nor affected the Liberalism or Radicalism of the middle classes.
The "Lakers" had given samples of their poetry, their politics and their morals, and now it was his turn to speak and to speak out.
In politics he was at first a Liberal, but became a Liberal Unionist at the time of the Home Rule Bill.
After these failures Caesar determined to take no active part in politicsfor a time, and retraced his steps to the East in order to study rhetoric under Molon, at Rhodes.
Taking an active part in Kansas politics and the "Kansas War," he was elected Probate Judge of Douglas County by the pro-slavery party, under the regime of Governor Walker.
You might begin by going into politics in your ward.
Latimer could talk to her only in letters, for with her he shared no friends or interests, and he was forced to choose between telling her of his lawsuits and his efforts in politics or of his love.
It was his vices as much as his politics that made George III.
When politics were introduced, he spoke with an eagerness and a vehemence that instantly banished the graces, though it redoubled the energies of his discourse.
Hannah More noted in 1786 that his vivacity had diminished, and that business and politics had impaired his agreeableness.
It was on the principles of rational politics that Fox and Sheridan admired it.
My eyes ain't what they used to be and the newspapers are different from each other so who can tell what to believe, but in the old days you could keep in touch with politics in the barrooms.
It made a better citizen out of you for every man ought to vote for what his consciousness tells him is right and to abide in politics by his consciousness.
I would not know who to bet on in any election but I used to get straight tips and in that way took an interest in politics which a man is scarcely to be called an American citizen unless he does.
Well, I will say I have not kept up withpolitics like I used to since the barrooms was vanished.
Papa is very busy about politics just at present," said Sophia, wishing to make matters smooth in her mother's mind.
The theatres are dull as Lethe, and politics have lost their salt.
He wrote poetry for the periodicals, and politics for the penny papers with considerable success and sufficient pecuniary results.
So with politics and that which excites men in the present, so with history and that which rouses them in the past: there lie at the root of what appears, most serious unsuspected elements.
And the march of politics was always tending in the same direction.
We have seen a parallelism between Greek philosophy and Greek politics in their earlier phases (see above, p.
The relation of such a doctrine as this to politics and to morals is not far to seek.
The hope of the world, alike in politicsand in philosophy, faded as the life of Greece decayed.
A reasoned and reasonable order and method are {83} symbolised by their theory of Number; their philosophy is political, their politics oligarchic.
He took an active part in the politics of his native country, and on one occasion was commander of the Samian fleet in a victorious engagement with the Athenians, when Samos was being besieged by Pericles.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "politics" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: diplomacy; government; jobbing; politics; polity
