In vain do they live circumspectly and confine themselves to a private life; a refusal to accept an office is unpardonable; there is a grudge against them if they do not employ their local influence in behalf of the reign.
A systematic code of laws, full and precise, admirable for the rule of private life, a sort of moral geometry in which the theorems, rigorously linked together, are attached to the definitions and axioms of abstract justice.
In reading the Greek and Latin authors, he paid particular attention to precepts and examples which might be useful in public or private life.
What is likewise no small addition to their merit, they contain much interesting description of private life, with a variety of information relative to public transactions and characters of that age.
His office was about to terminate, the war had ceased, and he had no longer any satisfactory excuse for not disbanding his troops and returning to private life.
There were many others, that is, not only consuls but persons in private life, who killed their children.
But gen'rous ene-mies may meet upon the neutral sile of private life, I think.
In private life in England Colonel Burr received much attention, and from no one more than Jeremy Bentham, with whom he formed a warm and intimate friendship.
It is another instance of the integrity in private life of those patriots that planned and accomplished the American Revolution.
Now it is difficult to imagine a principle more utterly subversive of all the duties of rulers, the rights of citizens, and the charities of private life.
No one could fail to respect him who knew him in public or private life.
We have behaved, and are behaving, towards other nations as in private life an honorable man would behave towards his fellows.
As imperious in private life as he was at the head of his army, rude as his profession, and proud as a conqueror; he oppressed the German princes no less by his haughtiness, than their country by his contributions.
Having thus nobly performed his duty, the author of these advantages retired, adorned with laurels, into the tranquillity of private life, and endeavoured to restore his shattered health.
Security and content were to be found in the bosom of private life; and nothing but the wish to oblige the Emperor had induced him, reluctantly enough, to relinquish for a time his blissful repose.
But repose was the last thing that Wallenstein contemplated when he returned to private life.
They say he is so agreeable in private life; I am dying to know him.
In the middle of the week, the course of private life at Monksmoor suffered an interruption--due to the parliamentary position of the master of the house.
She too pays her homage to the Pope of private life.
His will had, as it were, the force and the fixity of fate; that will carried him triumphantly through his military and civil career, and through the difficulties of private life.
He modeled and painted and declared that there was nothing in peace or in war, in imperial or in private life, of which he was not cognizant.
It would be absurd to deny that he was a scholar and a gentleman, a man of exquisite tastes in the fine arts, a man of strict morals in private life.
His probity, his correctness in private life, his decency of deportment, and his general ability, would not have misbecome a colleague of Walsingham and Burleigh.
Many men, who, however erroneous their political notions might be, were unquestionably honourable in private life, accepted money without scruple from the foreign powers favourable to the Pretender.
Private life" afforded as much scandal as if the reign of Walpole and corruption had continued; and "ardent youth" fought with watchmen and betted with blacklegs as much as ever.
Though nothing could be more erroneous than their political opinions, they possessed, in a far greater degree than their adversaries, those qualities which are the grace of private life.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "private life" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
