When this period is past, business, the necessity of pursuing a profession, the ambition to shine in parliament, or to rise in public life, occupy a large portion of their lives.
If an individual was to be found here or there who kept aloof from such doings and yet did not forgo public life, he was assuredly, like Marcus Cato, a political Don Quixote.
This ignominious dissoluteness, or rather, if we may venture to designate it by the only proper word, blackguardism of feeling and manners, could not but spread from private to public life.
The mutual animosities of the two parties gradually emerged into the light of public life.
Withdrawn from all chance in public life of enforcing his views on others, the natural aristocrat within him was forced to find some expression.
For he had in high degree the faculty, so essential to public life, of switching off his whole attention from one subject to another.
But if he did not remain in public life, what was he to do?
He said, stubbornly: "No, I can't remain in public life.
If it were known that she was his mistress, he could no longer maintain his position in public life--was he not therefore in honour bound; of his own accord, to resign it?
His profile is very handsome, and of that kind of beauty which imposes on men if it pleases women; and is, therefore, unlike that of your mere pretty fellows, a positive advantage in public life.
Moreover, before decision becomes irrevocable, I wish you to know practically all that is disagreeable or even humiliating in the first subordinate steps of him who, without wealth or station, would rise in public life.
In the mean while he sipped his tea, and glanced over the newspapers with that quick and half-disdainful eye with which your practical man in public life is wont to regard the abuse or the eulogium of the Fourth Estate.
I have performed an action not unworthy of the traditions of public life.
I have betrayed my country and the honour of public life.
To deprive you of even an inch of its shade would be unworthy of anyone in public life.
The two aspects of public life--political and religious--were closely interrelated.
It was not long before a more important opening offered itself, which speedily brought Burke into the main stream of public life.
Without him the Rockingham connection would undoubtedly have fallen to ruin, and with it the most upright, consistent, and disinterested body of men then in public life.
This seemed to me an excellent training for effective public speaking, and several of my old students, who have since distinguished themselves in public life, have confessed to me that they found it so.
We will see if a gang of newspaper blackguards can slander one of our senators out of public life.
In sooth to say, through the whole course of my public life, I met with no greater difficulties and trials than in cleansing myself from the old habitudes of office.
In public life I yet hoped to forget my private misery.
But a fly may look at an elephant, and for this reason we may glance at the great men and women whom I have seen through the many years of public life.
Indeed, this lecture has become a study in psychology; it often breaks all rules of oratory, departs from the precepts of rhetoric, and yet remains the most popular of any lecture I have delivered in the forty-four years of my public life.
You men when you drink of public life find it like a drink of whiskey, and you are just like the rest of the men.
No doubt the annual distribution of large sums through the Lands and Public Works departments year after year have had disagreeable effects on public life.
Hypercritical and eaten up by local and personal jealousies in public life, they are less loyal to parties and leaders, and less capable of permanent organization for a variety of objects.
Mr. Rolleston has his limitations, and his friends did the enemy a service when, after his return to public life in 1891, they tried to make a guerilla chief out of a scrupulous administrator.
Arthur, like Grant, belonged to the category of lovable men in public life.
Sprung from a race of political aristocrats, he was born to early and shining success in public life.
I thought that in all your many avocations, and especially in public life, that you would forget this fancy, but it is well that I must leave the country, for then I may hope that you will form another attachment.
At any rate, you might keep possession of Cross Hall for a while till you made your way in public life," said Mr. MacFarlane.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "public life" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
