A-life Sentence Examples

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  • They would like to have such a life.

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  • She was going to have her lifelong dream as well as the dream she had recently developed - a life with Brandon.

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  • She had to get out some so he could have a life.

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  • It's like he didn't have a life.

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  • There's a life at stake!

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  • Howie didn't like the arrangement but realized we couldn't commute back and forth every weekend and maintain a life.

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  • It isn't a life.

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  • Our chore held the aura of planning a vacation, not making a life changing decision.

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  • We all agreed it was healthy to try and maintain a life outside this business.

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  • We'd go back to god knows what; a life normal people live.

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  • I knew I would be suborning a lie and allowing a relationship I felt strongly was tenuous at best to move forward into a life commitment.

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  • Surely some would have devoted a life to science, dissecting the Mayan language or the searching out demise of the Anasazi Empire.

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  • Now, he could deliver what he'd always promised-- a life together-- yet she didn't feel like leaping for joy like she would've a year ago.

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  • Still, a life of betrayal with Aaron was nothing compared to a life as Talon's slave!

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  • Dean felt a pang of sympathy—a child herself about to bring a life into the world.

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  • No tumor, nothing to stop them from working through whatever issues they had to make a life together.

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  • He wasn't about to lose her or the chance to build a life with the woman he'd loved for tens of thousands of years.

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  • She wanted a life filled with chili pepper lights.

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  • She was going to live - and maybe even share a life with someone like Gabriel.

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  • Tell him I kinda have a life and don't really care what he wants.

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  • She imagined he went to her apartment to check on Toby and was struck by her longing to return to the tiny, cluttered mess of a life that was hers.

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  • Yet he didn't seem too affected by a life of pain, exclusion, and conflict.

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  • They allow us to lead as normal of a life as possible.

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  • Even at such a young age, Rhyn.s features were troubled and somber, as if he knew what kind of a life awaited him.

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  • She hadn.t been certain about the kind of life she.d have with him, but she was certain she didn.t want a life without him.

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  • It made her angrier at Evelyn and Romas, knowing A'Ran and his sweet sisters had been forced out of their home into a life of poverty.

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  • Maybe I sound like a jerk, but it's been ten years since we were an item and I've got a life now.

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  • You may be hurt and feeling helpless and desperate and God knows what and I'm sorry as hell but I have a life too, and I'll not have you ruin it!

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  • I just want a little more time to bask in the beauty that perhaps I'm carrying a life.

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  • Then off the newborn goes to start a life of vampirism, just like a bird leaving the nest.

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  • That may be your idea of an ideal relationship, but I had to get away from him if I was going to have a life of my own.

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  • He stumbled as he climbed the steps to the pulpit and grasped the podium like a life preserver.

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  • She added, "I have a life to live—regardless."

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  • Only in her dreams had she ever considered such a life possible for her.

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  • She wondered what a life surrounded by those with the luxury to care for one another was like.

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  • Darian basically had to trade a life debt to the Others to keep them from taking me.

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  • A life with Claire would've been more hellish than a life with the Black God, he said with a smile.

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  • And it would've prevented a life with you.

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  • The demon's power enabled me to save a life today.

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  • Her stupidity had cost a life this time – the life of a dear friend.

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  • Katie left him in Texas and went on to make a life of her own.

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  • As much as he looked forward to a life with Megan, at times the thought was intimidating.

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  • His children with Megan would have opportunities he and Sylvia never had, but no one was going to push them into a life other than what they wanted.

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  • Valentine, which was published in the same year, indicated that it was but the first chapter in a life of endless adventures, and that the imagination which turned the crude facts into poetry, and the fancy which played about them like a rainbow, were inexhaustible.

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  • Evidently Peter was determined to tear his son away from a life of indolent ease.

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  • Even into his mythological learning he breathes a life to which these dry scholars are strangers.

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  • In 1871 he retired, and in 1881 was nominated a life member of the Upper Chamber (Herrenhaus).

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  • He has published, amongst other works, Schleiermachers Stellung zum Christentum in seinen Reden fiber die Religion (1888), and a Life of his father (2 vols., 1829-96).

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  • His literary talent, though mainly employed in journalism, was also shown in a little volume of verses, Poems of a Life (1884).

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  • The Protector and the council together were given a life tenure of office, with a large army and a settled revenue sufficient for public needs in time of peace; while the clauses relating to religion "are remarkable as laying down for the first time with authority a principle of toleration," 2 though this toleration did not apply to Roman Catholics and Anglicans.

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  • A man might make his wife a settlement by deed of gift, which gave her a life interest in part of his property, and he might reserve to her the right to bequeath it to a favourite child, but she could in no case leave it to her family.

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  • All other daughters had only a life interest in their dowry, which reverted to their family, if childless, or went to their children if they had any.

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  • He went thoroughly into the practice as well as the theory of Stoicism, and lived so abstemious and laborious a life that he injured his health.

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  • He also wrote a life of Caesar and the elder Scipio.

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  • If a heretic in the Inquisition asked for absolution, he could receive it, but subject to a life imprisonment; but if his repentance were but feigned he could be at once condemned and handed over to the civil power for execution.

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  • He approached St Faro, the bishop of Meaux, to whom he made known his desire to live a life of solitude in the forest.

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  • Henceforward he lived a life of unbroken seclusion at Vignay, his only subsequent public appearance being by means of a memoire which he addressed to the king in 1570 under the title Le But de la guerre et de la paix, ou discours du chancelier l'Hospital pour exhorter Charles IX.

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  • It is no dwelling of the dead nor part of the lower world, but distinguished heroes are translated thither without dying, to live a life of perfect happiness.

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  • Whereas the god receives a gift in the honorific sacrifice, he demands a life in the piacular.

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  • In connexion with the Monumenta Pertz also began the publication of a selection of sources in octavo form, the Scriptores rerum germanicarum in usum scholarum; among his other literary labours may be mentioned an edition of the Gesammelte Werke of Leibnitz, and a life of Stein.

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  • After coquetting for a short time with the project of a life of Moliere he decided to follow in the track of his first work with a History of the Conquest of Mexico.

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  • In 1873, she was elected a life governor of University College, London, and in 1882 became secretary of Girton College, Cambridge, retiring in 1904.

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  • To the 8th edition (1750) was added a life of the author.

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  • Tradition represents the dictatorship as having a life of three centuries in the history of the Roman state.

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  • A considerable amount of personal property, including furniture, a small library, provisions, tools, agricultural implements, livestock and the proceeds of a life insurance policy, is also exempt from seizure for the satisfaction of debts.

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  • He had one daughter, Anne, who married John Damer, son of Lord Milton, and who inherited a life interest in Strawberry Hill under the will of Horace Walpole.

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  • Yet it may be asserted that until the more durable and more reputable connexion with Mme de Nehra these love episodes were the most disgraceful blemishes in a life otherwise of a far higher moral character than has been commonly supposed.

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  • Another timely work was his edition of Friedrich List's Gesammelte Schriften (1850), accompanied with a life of the author.

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  • But although in his father's lifetime he several times filled the office of consul, and after his death was nominally the partner in the empire with his brother Titus, he never took any part in public business, but lived in great retirement, devoting himself to a life of pleasure and of literary pursuits till he succeeded to the throne.

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  • Calvin, on his way to Basel for a life of study, touched at Geneva, and by the importunity of Farel was there detained to become the leader of the Genevan Reformation.

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  • But that view which admits a life of God that is not benumbed in an unchangeable sameness will be able to understand his eternal co-working as a variable quantity, the transforming influence of which comes forth at particular moments and attests that the course of nature is not shut up within itself.

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  • The Franks of northern Europe attempted to live a life that suited a northern climate under a southern sun.

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  • Besides the works already cited, M'Lennan wrote a Life of Thomas Drummond (1867).

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  • Among Drew's lesser writings are a Life of Dr Thomas Coke (1817), and a work on the deity of Christ (1813).

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  • Having always had an attraction for a life of prayer and retirement, in 1547 he tried to resign the generalship, and again in 1550, but the fathers unanimously opposed the project.

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  • Ignatio (Rome, 1650, 1659) Genelli wrote Das Leben des heiligen Ignatius von Loyola (Innsbruck, 1848); Nicolas Orlandinus gives a life in the first volume of the Historiae Societatis Jesu (Rome, 1615).

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  • Thus nature sleeps and dies during winter, to awake in springtime to a life of renewed luxuriance.

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  • Goetz (Gotha, 1899), &c. A life of Leo XIII.

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  • The gay remembrance of a life well spent.

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  • It was a fitting close to such a life as his.

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  • Besides the works already noticed, Ficino composed a treatise on the Christian religion, which was first given to the world in 1476, a translation into Italian of Dante's De monarchia, a life of Plato, and numerous essays on ethical and semi-philosophical subjects.

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  • This curious trio lived for twenty-one years a life wholly given to devotion, study and charity, until the death of Law on the 9th of April 1761.

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  • The Persianizing tendency of this school reached its highest point in the productions of Veysi, who left a Life of the Prophet, and of Nergisi, a miscellaneous writer of prose and verse.

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  • He has to resist the temptations of the body, keeping it under strict control, and with the eye of the soul undimmed by corporeal wants and impulses, contemplate God the supreme good, and live a life according to reason.

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  • Lastly a life by an otherwise unknown Irish writer named Probus occurs in the Basel edition of Bede's works (1563) and was reprinted by Colgan.

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  • Subsequently he gave himself up to a life of solitary asceticism in a Bithynian monastery, and is said, probably wrongly, to have remained some time in a monastery on Mount Athos.

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  • His chief works were a Commentary on the Book of Psalms (2 vols., 1864-1868) and a life of Bishop Thirlwall (1877-1878).

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  • In 1771 he published his Zend-Avesta (3 vols.), containing collections from the sacred writings of the fire-worshippers, a life of Zoroaster, and fragments of works ascribed to him.

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  • After the liberal concessions of 1860 and 1861, however, he became a life member of the Austrian senate.

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  • Quixote have been reprinted in a critical edition with a life of Silva by Dr Mendes dos Remedios (Coimbra, 1905).

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  • The History of the Puritans was edited, in five volumes, by Dr Joshua Toulmin (1740-1815), who added a life of Neal in 1797.

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  • He conceives of them as living a life of eternal peace and exemption from passion, in a world of their own; and the highest ideal of man is, through the exercise of his reason, to realize an image of this life.

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  • In the second of these passages the disciples are exhorted to choose a life of voluntary poverty; the nearest parallel is the ideal set before the rich young man at Mark x.

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  • Wodrow also wrote a Life (1828) of his father.

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  • Itlis not a more untrustworthy account than a vehement controversialist engaged in a life and death struggle might be expected to write of his theological antagonists.

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  • James Nichols also wrote a life (London, 1843).

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  • His numerous writings, from 1823 onwards, were the reservoirs in which the entire energy of a life was stored.

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  • In 1802 he entered parliament through the duke of Norfolk's nomination as member for Thetford, and married a widow with six children, Mrs Ord, who had a life interest in a comfortable income.

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  • Walafrid's poetical works also include a short life of St Blaithinaic, a high-born monk of Iona, murdered by the Danes in the first half of the 9th century; a life of St Mammas; and a Liber de visionibus Wettini.

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  • A posthumous work entitled Contemplatio Philosophica was printed for private circulation in 1793 by his grandson, Sir William Young, Bart., prefaced by a life of the author, and with an appendix containing letters addressed to him by Bolingbroke, Bossuet, &c. Several short papers by him were published in Phil.

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  • With Therasia (now a sister, not a wife), while leading a life of rigid asceticism, he devoted the whole of his vast wealth to the entertainment of needy pilgrims, to payment of the debts of the insolvent, and to public works of utility or ornament; besides building basilicas at Fondi and Nola, he provided the latter place with a muchneeded aqueduct.

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  • He was recalled to Rome, where he lived a life of studied retirement, to avoid the possibility of giving offence to the tyrant.

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  • The materials for a life of Fox were first collected by his nephew, Lord Holland, and were then revised and rearranged by Mr Allen and Lord John Russell.

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  • In 1859 appeared a life of Defoe by William Chadwick, an extraordinary rhapsody in a style which is half Cobbett and half Carlyle, but amusing, and by no means devoid of acuteness.

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  • There is also a Life by Thomas Wright (1894).

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  • For that work the Augustan age, as the end of one great cycle of events and the beginning of another, was eminently suited, and a writer who, by his gifts of imagination and sympathy, was perhaps better fitted than any other man of antiquity for the task, and who through the whole of this period lived a life of literary leisure, was found to do justice to the subject.

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  • Its execution was the work of a life prolonged through the languor and dissolution following so soon upon the promise of the new era, during which time the past became glorified by contrast with the disheartening aspect of the present.

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  • Besides the Historia Britonum Geoffrey is also credited with a Life of Merlin composed in Latin verse.

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  • The enthusiasm for a life of holiness and separation from the world no longer swayed all minds.

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  • Johanan solaced his disciples on the fall of the Temple by the double thought that charity could replace sacrifice, and that a life devoted to the religious law could form a fitting continuation of the old theocratic state.

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  • Such contradictory impressions bespeak a life made up of contradictory elements.

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  • The work has been frequently reprinted, the Leipzig edition (1846) containing a life of Languet by Treitschke.

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  • A legend of his surreptitious bestowal of dowries upon the three daughters of an impoverished citizen, who, unable to procure fit marriages for them, was on the point of giving them up to a life of shame, is said to have originated the old custom of giving presents in secret on the Eve of St Nicholas, subsequently transferred to Christmas Day.

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  • There is also a Life by James Smyth, David Garrick (1887).

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  • The chief source of information is a life written by St Jerome; it was based upon a letter, no longer extant, written by St Epiphanius, who had known Hilarion.

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  • These on their side, to be subject in the true sense must be conceived of as possessing a life which is truly their own, the expression of their own nature as self-determinant.

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  • Like St Francis, Waldo adopted a life of poverty that he might be free to preach, but with this difference that the Waldenses preached the doctrine of Christ while the Franciscans preached the person of Christ, Waldo reformed teaching while Francis kindled love; hence the one awakened antagonisms which the other escaped.

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  • He said, "Delagoa is a life or death question for us.

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  • His history of the War of 1812 between the United States and Great Britain, written when he was twentyfour years old, is still the standard history of that conflict, and his Winning of the West is probably the best work which has been written on American frontier life of the 19th century, a life that developed certain fundamental and distinctive American social and political traits.

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  • He was also much about the court, and he admits very frankly that in his youth he led a life of pleasure, if not exactly of excess.

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  • He resolved, accordingly, to retire to a life of study and contemplation, though he indulged in no asceticism except careful diet.

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  • In return he receives the souls of the slain who in his palace, Valhalla, live a life of fighting and feasting, similar to that which has been their desire on earth.

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  • These literary occupations solaced the hours of a life which was mostly spent in privacy.

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  • In 1851 he brought out a life of Count Yorck von Wartenburg (Berlin, 1851-1852, and many later editions), one of the best biographies in the German language, and then began his great work on the Geschichte der preussischen Politik (Berlin, 1855-1886).

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  • The original materials for a life of St Columba are unusually full.

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  • Henceforth, saddened by the death of Napoleon, of her daughters Pauline and Elisa, and of several grandchildren, she lived a life of mournful seclusion.

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  • Besides publishing these manuscripts he wrote a Life of Carlyle.

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  • Gutch, in 1847, and entered on a life of study.

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  • Among other publications by him were An American Four-in-hand in Britain (1883), Round the World (1884), The Empire of Business (1902), a Life of James Watt (1905) and Problems of To-day (1908).

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  • For ten years he lived a life of ease in London, where he became the intimate friend of Robert Browning, of whose poem "Waring" he was the subject.

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  • Besides biogra p hical sketches of Defoe, Sir John Davies, Allan Ramsay, Sir David Lyndsay, Churchyard and others, prefixed to editions of their respective works, Chalmers wrote a life of Thomas Paine, the author of the Rights of Man, which he published under the assumed name of Francis Oldys, A.M., of the University of Pennsylvania; and a life of Ruddiman, in which considerable light is thrown on the state of literature in Scotland during the earlier part of the last century.

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  • During a life of incessant activity Chalmers scarcely ever allowed a day to pass without its modicum of composition; at the most unseasonable times, and in the most unlikely places, he would occupy himself with literary work.

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  • Karman's collected works were published in Abafi's Nemzeti Kiinyvtdr (Pest, 1878), &c., preceded by a life of Karman.

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  • The true hedonist will aim at a life of enduring rational happiness; pleasure is the end of life, but true pleasure can be obtained only under the guidance of reason.

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  • Great-grandson of Karachar Nevian (minister of Jagatai, son of Jenghiz Khan, and commander-in-chief of his forces), and distinguished among his fellow-clansmen as the first convert to Islamism, Teragai might have assumed the high military rank which fell to him by right of inheritance; but like his father Burkul he preferred a life of retirement and study.

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  • The whole arrangements and character of the building bespeak the rich and powerful feudal lord, not the humble father of a body of hard-working brethren, bound by vows to a life of poverty and self-denying toil.

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  • The Abbe Casgrain' Devoted A Life Time To Making The French Canadians Appear As The Chosen People Of New World History; But, Though An Able' Advocate, He Spoilt A Really Good Case By Trying To Prove Too Much.

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  • In the thirteenth, after the death of Alexander (June 323) in the archonship of Cephisodorus (323-322), having departed to Chalcis, he died of disease (322), after a life of three-and-sixty years.

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  • After a life of exceptional and continuous lawlessness he escaped from Scotland and in his absence was sentenced to death; having returned to his native country he was seized and was beheaded in Edinburgh.

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  • William Hamilton Maxwell (1792-1850), the Irish novelist, wrote, in addition to several novels, a Life of the Duke of Wellington (1839-1841 and again 1883), and a History of the Irish Rebellion in 1798 (1845 and 1891).

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  • This celebrated treaty belongs rather to the history of Germany than to a life of Mazarin; but two questions have been often asked, whether Mazarin did not delay the peace as long as possible in order to more completely ruin Germany, and whether Richelieu would have made a similar peace.

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  • He was an intimate friend of Dr Samuel Clarke, of whom he wrote a life.

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  • An edition of his poems in 1793 contains a life byHenry Mackenzie.

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  • Porter wrote a Life of Commodore David Porter (1875), gossipy Incidents and Anecdotes of the Civil War (1885), a none too accurate History of the Navy during the War of the Rebellion (1887), two novels, Allan Dare and Robert le Diable (1885; dramatized, 1887) and Harry Marline (1886), and a short "Romance of Gettysburg," published in The Criterion in 1903.

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  • There is a life of Henry by his chaplain John Blakman (printed at the end of Hearne's edition of Otterbourne); but it is concerned only with his piety and patience in adversity.

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  • Suidas thus appears to give to Philostratus the Athenian a life of 200 'years!

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  • Besides various sermons, Gleig was the author of Directions for the Study of Theology, in a series of letters from a bishop to his son on his admission to holy orders (1827); an edition of Stackhouse's History of the Bible (1817); and a life of Robertson the historian, prefixed to an edition of his works.

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  • The work of the Abbe Hely contains a life of Grotius.

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  • The reasons for the belief in a life after death are discussed in the article Immortality.

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  • An absolute contrast to his brother, he gave himself up to a life of pleasure and allowed the administration to fall into the hands of six eunuchs.

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  • A complete edition of his works was published at Florence in 1707, to which is prefixed a life by Casotti.

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  • Under the influence of the derivation from 130p as, the home of the Hyperboreans was placed in a region beyond the north wind, a paradise like the Elysian plains, inaccessible by land or sea, whither Apollo could remove those mortals who had lived a life of piety.

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  • He imparted a life and impulse to prevailing tendencies, helping on the construction of the system hereafter to be completed in Scholasticism.

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  • Besides editions of English classics his works include a Life of Queen Victoria (1902),(1902), Great Englishmen of the Sixteenth Century (1904), based on his Lowell Institute lectures at Boston, Mass., in 1903, and Shakespeare and the Modern Stage (1906).

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  • He succeeded in getting the reformer burned; but found himself involved in a life and death struggle with the city.

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  • About the year 1170 Lambert le Begue, a priest of Liege, who had devoted his fortune to founding the hospital and church of St Christopher for the widows and children of crusaders, conceived the idea of establishing an association of women, who, without taking the monastic vows, should devote themselves to a life of religion.

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  • Here he enclosed himself and led a life cut off from all intercourse with man.

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  • During twenty years Anthony lived a life of seclusion, never coming forth from his fort, never seeing the face of man.

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  • In 1885 he published a life of Francis Bacon.

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  • The constitution of Grattan's parliament offered no security, as the differences over the regency question had made evident that in matters of imperial interest the policy of the Irish parliament and that of Great Britain would be in agreement; and at a moment when England was engaged in a life and death struggle with France it was impossible for the ministry to ignore the danger, which had so recently been emphasized by the fact that the independent constitution of 1782 had offered no safeguard against armed revolt.

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  • The State, it now seemed to Hobbes, might be regarded as a great artificial man or monster (Leviathan), composed of men, with a life that might be traced from its generation through human reason under pressure of human needs to its dissolution through civil strife proceeding from human passions.

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  • From a life by Diogenes Laertius, we learn that he studied at Athens under Plato, but, being dismissed, passed over into Egypt, where he remained for sixteen months with the priests of Heliopolis.

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  • His son, Paul Hamilton Hayne (5830-5886), was a poet of some distinction, and in 1878 published a life of his father.

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  • Soon after his death, while the public curiosity was strongly excited about his extraordinary character and his not less extraordinary adventures, a life of him appeared widely different from the catchpenny lives of eminent men which were then a staple article of manufacture in Grub Street.

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  • On the contrary, weapons are seldom found, at any rate in graves, the objects in which bear witness to a life of extraordinary luxury.

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  • He never married, and led a life of self-denial, entirely devoted to antiquarian research.

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  • Simonsfeld has written a life of Andrea Dandolo in German (Munich, 1876).

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  • He brought the Saracens of the mountains back again to a life in plains and cities, and presently planted a colony of them on the mainland at Nocera, when they became his most trusty soldiers.

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  • Ladies of the upper or middle classes lead a life of extreme inactivity, spending their time at the bath, which is the general place of gossip, or in receiving visits, embroidering, and the like, and in absolute dolce far niente.

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  • The belief gradually grew up that every dead man would have to face a similar trial before he could be admitted to a life of bliss in the other world.

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  • In 1860 he was summoned to the remodelled Reichsrat by the emperor, who next year nominated him a life member of the Austrian upper house (Herrenhaus), where, while remaining a keen upholder of the German centralized empire, as against the federalism of Sla y s and Magyars, he greatly distinguished himself as one of the most intrepid and influential supporters of the cause of liberalism, in both political and religious matters, until his death at Graz on the 12th of September 1876.

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  • His last work was a life of his elder brother (De Vita Henrici Valesii, 1677).

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  • The trend of the evolution of the plant kingdom has been in the direction of the establishment of a vegetation of fixed habit and adapted to the vicissitudes of a life on land, and the Angiosperms are the highest expression of this evolution and constitute the dominant vegetation of the earth's surface at the present epoch.

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  • Others submitted or temporized; but before there had been time enough for the matter to be carried through, the emperor died, having tarnished if not utterly forfeited by this last error the reputation won by a life devoted to the service of Orthodoxy.

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  • That, he says, was his spiritual new-birth, though certainly not into a life of serenity.

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  • Carlyle spent some time with the elder Bullers, but found a life of dependence upon fashionable people humiliating and unsatisfactory.

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  • He employed himself at intervals upon a life of Schiller and a translation of Wilhelm Meister.

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  • While one section is ready to settle down and receive territory at the hands of the Christian rulers, with or without homage, another section still adheres to a life of mere adventure and of plunder.

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  • At the school of Libanius the sophist he gave early indications of his mental powers, and would have been the successor of his heathen master, had he not been stolen away, to use the expression of his teacher, to a life of piety (like Augustine, Gregory of Nazianzus, and Theodoret) by the influence of his pious mother Anthusa.

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  • After his baptism (about 370) by Meletius, the bishop of Antioch, he gave up all his forensic prospects, and buried himself in an adjacent desert, where for nearly ten years he spent a life of ascetic self-denial and theological study, to which he was introduced by Diodorus, bishop of Tarsus, a"famous scholar of the Antiochene type.

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  • The passage stands almost alone as a revelation of inner conflict in a life which outwardly was marked by unusual calm.

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  • One of the most interesting from a historical point of view is the Hurt of Sedition how greueous it is to a Communewelth (1549), written on the occasion of Ket's rebellion, republished in 1569, 1576 and 1641, on the last occasion with a life of the author by Gerard Langbaine.

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  • He wrote a life of Jesus, in which Jesus was simply the son of Joseph and Mary.

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  • His son John published a Life in 1846 and Recollections and Experiences in 1849.

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  • Tenney, was the author of several novels, and wrote a Life of Demetrius Augustine Gallitzin, Prince and Priest (1873).

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  • At this time Severus came under the powerful influence of St Martin, bishop of Tours, by whom he was led to devote his wealth to the Christian poor, and his own powers to a life of good works and meditation.

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  • The power to work miraculous signs is assumed to be in direct proportion to holiness, and is by Severus valued merely as an evidence of holiness, which he is persuaded can only be attained through a life of isolation from the world.

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  • Other works by Sigebert are a history of the early abbots of Gembloux to 1048 (Gesta abbatum - blacensium) and a life of the Frankish king Sigebert III.

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  • Matthew Stewart (his eldest son) wrote a life in Annual Biography and Obituary (1829), republished privately in 1838.

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  • In 45 he was sent to Athens to study rhetoric and philosophy, but abandoned himself to a life of dissipation.

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  • In 1797 Madison retired from congress, but not to a life of inactivity.

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  • Besides being a good soldier, he was a sculptor of some merit, who executed statues of his father and of Napoleon, and he wrote a life of his father and a history of the wars under Louis XV.

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  • On the other hand some seek the essential Christianity in a life beneath and separable from the historic forms. In part under the influence of the Hegelian philosophy, and in part because of the prevalent evolutionary scientific world-view, God is represented under the form of pure thought, and the world process as the unfolding of himself.

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  • He led a life of the severest asceticism, and was credited with the power of working miracles; owing to his reputation the numbers of Rievaulx were greatly increased.

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  • Amongst them are homilies "on the burden of Babylon in Isaiah"; three books "on spiritual friendship"; a life of Edward the Confessor; an account of miracles wrought at Hexham, and the tract called Relatio de Standardo.

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  • In the epics considerable merit is attached to a life of seclusion and ascetic practices by means of which man is considered capable of acquiring supernatural powers equal or even superior to those of the gods - a notion perhaps not unnaturally springing from the pantheistic conception.

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  • He also wrote a Life of Rev. Cornelius Winter, and Memoirs of Rev. John Clarke.

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  • But in 1846 he published the Lyra Innocentium; and in 1863 he completed a life of Bishop Wilson.

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  • Such a life was specially recommended for one who has lived the life of a householder, and, having begotten sons according to the sacred law and offered sacrifices, desires in his old age to abandon worldly objects and direct his mind to final liberation.

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  • He also wrote a Life of Me Right Honourable Robert Boyle (London, 1744); Inquiry into the share which King Charles I.

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  • He died in 1561 after a life passed amidst continual dangers and conflicts.

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  • Gregory also left a life of St Andrew, translated from the Greek, and a history of the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus, translated from Syriac.

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  • Tyrrell privately circulated among his friends writings in which he drew a clear line of distinction between religion as a life and theology as the incomplete interpretation of that life.

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  • From this time till 1848 he led a life of comparative quiet - not the quiet of inactivity, however, for his incessant labours within the Academy and the Observatory produced a multitude of contributions to all departments of physical science, - but on the fall of Louis Philippe he left his laboratory to join in forming the provisional government.

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  • Butler never attempts to prove that a future life regulated according to the requirements of ethical law is a reality; he only desires to show that the conception of such a life is not irreconcilable with what we know of the course of nature, and that consequently it is not unreasonable to suppose that there is such a life.

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  • Such analysis had been already attempted by Hobbes, and the result he came to was that man naturally is adapted only for a life of selfishness, - his end is the procuring of pleasure and the avoidance of pain.

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  • He wrote a Commentary on the Book of Acts (1882) and a Life of Philip Schaff (New York, 1897).

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  • Pattison had made many manuscript collections for a life of Joseph Scaliger on a much more extensive scale, which he left unfinished.

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  • In writing the above article, Professor Christie had access to and made much use of these MSS., which include a life of Julius Caesar Scaliger.

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  • The gloss he put upon the definition of the end was " a life in accordance with the promptings given us by nature "; the terms are all used by older Stoics, but the individual nature (*ay) seems to be emphasized.

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  • That he was, as stated by Archdeacon Thomas Martin, the author of a Life of Wykeham, published in 1597, taught classics, French and geometry by a learned Frenchman on the site of Winchester College, is a guess due to Wykeham's extant letters being in French and to the assumption that he was an architect.

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  • Adamnan wrote a Life of St Columba, which, though abounding in fabulous matter, is of great interest and value.

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  • Acacius, the pupil of Eusebius and his successor in the see of Caesarea, wrote a life of him which is unfortunately lost.

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  • Wharton in the second volume of his Anglia sacra (London, 1691) gives considerable portions of a life of Wulfstan which is an amplified translation of an AngloSaxon biography.

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  • The materials for a life of Petrarch are afforded in abundance by his letters, collected and prepared for publication under his own eyes.

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  • After a life of constant struggle and an obloquy which never relaxed, the sensational close of Zola's career was the signal for an extraordinary burst of eulogy.

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  • From 1033 to 1043 he was involved in a life and death contest with those nobles whose territory adjoined the royal domains, especially with the great house of Blois, whose count, Odo II., had been the centre of the league of Constance, and with the counts of Champagne.

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  • On the termination of her connexion with Charles II., Lucy Walter abandoned herself to a life of promiscuous immorality, which resulted in her premature death, at Paris, in 1658.

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  • He at first took up the study of law, but abandoned it for a life of pleasure.

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  • He wrote a life of his father (1860), and a History of Cuba (1854).

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  • At the same time he wrote a life of St Remigius, in which he endeavoured by audacious falsifications to prove the supremacy of the church of Reims over the other churches.

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  • We see him full of tenderness to animals, a virtue not common in Italy in spite of the example of St Francis; open-handed in giving, not eager in getting- "poor," he says, "is the man of many wants"; not prone to resentment - "the best shield against injustice is to double the cloak of long-suffering"; zealous in labour above all men - "as a day well spent gives joyful sleep, so does a life well spent give joyful death."

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  • Gerard, Contributions towards a Life of Father Henry Garnet (1898).

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  • He died in 314, and was succeeded as scholarch by Polemon, whom he had reclaimed from a life of profligacy.

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  • He probably did more than any other man in America to lead the Puritan churches from a faith which regarded God as a moral governor, the Bible as a book of laws, and religion as obedience to a conscience to a faith which regards God as a father, the Bible as a book of counsels, and religion as a life of liberty in love.

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  • At first unsuccessful, he finally defeated the reigning king Demetrius Soter in 150 B.C. Being now undisputed master of Syria, he abandoned himself to a life of debauchery.

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  • When he was nineteen years old he was married to his cousin Yasodhara, daughter of a Koliyan chief, and gave himself up to a life of luxury.

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  • His best book is a Life of Cardinal Wolsey (London, 1724), containing documents which are still valuable for reference; of his other writings the Prefatory Epistle containing some remarks to be published on Homer's Iliad (London, 1714), was occasioned by Pope's proposed translation of the Iliad, and his Theologia speculativa (London, 1718), earned him the degree of D.D.

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  • Other works by Mahan are a Life of Admiral Farragut (1892); The Interest of America in Sea Power (1897); Lessons of the War with Spain (1899); The Story of the War with South Africa and The Problem of Asia (1900); Types of Naval Officers drawn from the History of the British Navy (1901); Retrospect and Prospect, studies of international relations (1902).

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  • This prelate was related to the English king, Edward II., and after a life spent in strife and ostentation, he died on the 24th of September 1333.

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  • It is guarded by a body of chosen knights, or templars, and acts alike as a life and youth preserving talisman - no man may die within eight days of beholding it, and the maiden who bears it retains perennial youth - and an oracle choosing its own servants, and indicating whom the Grail king shall wed.

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  • Professor Jacobi has edited and translated the Kalpa Sutra, containing a life of the founder of the Jain order; but this can scarcely be older than the 5th century of our era.

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  • So a black whirl and torment of rapine, violence and fraud was encircling the Western world, as a life went out which, notwithstanding some eccentricities and some aberrations, had made great tides in human destiny very luminous.

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  • Accordingly, it was at this epoch that the small ancestral insectivorous mammals first forsook their arboreal habitat to try a life on the open plains, where their descendants developed on the one hand into the carnivorous and other groups, in which the toes are armed with nails or claws, and on the other into the hoofed group, inclusive of such monsters as the elephant and the giraffe.

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  • The St Thomas's sisterhood at Oxford commenced in 1847; and the present mother-superior of the Holy Trinity Convent at Oxford, Marian Hughes, dedicated herself before witnesses to such a life as early as 1841 (Liddon's Life of Dr Pusey, iii.).

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  • The 14th century, so full of varied religious life, made it manifest that the two different ideas of a life of separation from the world which in earlier times had lived on side by side within the medieval church were irreconcilable.

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  • For himself he prized above all things the wisdom that is virtue, and in the task of producing it he endured the hardest penury, maintaining that such life was richer in enjoyment than a life of luxury.

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  • He wrote a Life of St Olaf, now lost; his authority is cited.

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  • Domentiyan wrote a life of St Sava in the involved and bombastic Byzantine style of the middle of the 13th century.

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  • Through faith, which is a firm and certain cognition of the divine benevolence towards us founded on the truth of the gracious promise in Christ, men are by the operation of the Spirit united to Christ and are made partakers of His death and resurrection, so that the old man is crucified with Him and they are raised to a new life, a life of righteousness and holiness.

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  • Farragut was twice married, and left, by his second wife, a son, Loyall Farragut, who, in 1878, published a Life of his father "embodying his Journal and Letters."

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  • He published also a number of sermons and occasional pamphlets; and he prefixed a life of the author to a collected edition of Dr Nathaniel Lardner's Works (1788).

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  • He wrote a life of Dr Doddridge, which is prefixed to Doddridge's Exposition of the New Testament (1792).

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  • The latter either dwell in the sid, and this is probably the earlier conception, or in islands out in the ocean where they live a life of never-ending delight.

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  • He had a taste for puerile amusements, a mania for useless little domestic economies in a court where millions vanished like smoke, and a natural idleness which achieved as its masterpiece the keeping a diary from 1766 to 1792 of a life so tragic, which was yet but a foolish chronicle of trifles.

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  • For seven years, nevertheless, during which he led a life of studious retirement in the Villa Segni at Bellosguardo, near Florence, he maintained an almost unbroken silence.

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  • But the Conservatives preferred to support the late kings brother Don Carlos, and they had the active aid of the Basques, who feared for their local franchises, and of the mountaineers of Navarre, Aragon, Catalonia and Valencia, who were either quite clerical, or who had become attached, during the French invasion and the troubles of the reign of Ferdinand, to a life of guerrillero adventure.

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  • His nephew, Robert Milman (1816-1876), was bishop of Calcutta from 1867 until his death, and was the author of a Life of Torquato Tasso (1850).

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  • The large size of the ears and the narrow stripes are in some degree at any rate adaptations to a life on scrub-clad plains.

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  • Aurelian's restless spirit was not long able to endure a life of inaction in the city.

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  • His SOn Theophilus Parsons (1797-1882), who was Dane professor of law at Harvard from 1848 to 1870, is remembered chiefly as the author of a series of useful legal treatises, and some books in support of Swedenborgian doctrines; he wrote a life of his father (Boston, 1859).

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  • This pension, however, was only intended to be a life grant to Baji Rao himself.

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  • He was elected a life member of the New York State Board of Regents in 1878; and in 1902 he became vice-chancellor and, in 1904, chancellor of the university of the state of New York.

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  • It is said, but some historians doubt the story, that, instead of leading a life of asceticism, he spent his revenues in furthering his own luxury and enjoyment.

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  • The motto that he adopted for use with the arms emblazoned for him as cardinal - Co p ad cor loquitur, and that which he directed to be engraved on his memorial tablet at Edgbaston - Ex umbris et imaginibus in veritatem - together seem to disclose as much as can be disclosed of the secret of a life which, both to contemporaries and to later students, has been one of almost fascinating interest, at once devout and inquiring, affectionate and yet sternly self-restrained.

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  • From the Oriental philosophy he seems to have adopted a life of solitude.

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  • When a wife dies leaving a husband of whom there has been issue born alive, he has by the courtesy a life interest in all her real estate and all her personal estate; if the wife die intestate and leave no other heirs the husband is entitled to all her real estate in fee simple.

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  • Of so dissolute a life that, although married, he had children by several mistresses at the same time, he gave vent to all his passions with a ferocity that was bestial rather than human.

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  • She had blamed him at first for giving them permission to remove her uterus, but it was a life and death decision - one that wasn't easy for him.

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  • He's got a blank slate for a life time of memory.

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  • I would set the schedule of Howie's activities, with ample time for us to have a life and hopefully cease feeling guilty for not doing more.

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  • This is a life changing offer and we need all the information we can gather before we consider the ramifications.

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  • I don't care about my past now that I have a life.

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  • Dean felt a pang of sympathy—a child herself about to bring a life into the world.

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  • Sometimes she answered as if she were alone, talk­ing out loud, reminiscing, remembering the tiniest of details of a life now forever changed.

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  • She added, "I have a life to live—regardless."

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  • It forced him to forge ahead like some naive knight doing battle with a windmill to satisfy his curiosity and meet this fool who'd toss away a life with this woman for a few measly mil­lions.

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  • I may be obligated, but I also owe a life debt to this particular Guardian.

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  • Her stupidity had cost a life this time – the life of a dear friend.

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  • For some that will be a life of sexual abstinence.

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  • She spoke as someone who had been jailed for her peace activism and who faced a life ban on visiting the US.

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  • Actuary A life part qualified actuary A life part qualified actuary with profit testing experience for a 3 month contract needed.

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  • Precipitating factors usually involve a life event or social adversity.

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  • The abbey he founded at Mynyw modeled a life of extreme asceticism modeled on that of the Egyptian monks.

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  • Qualifying Policy A life assurance policy which meets rules set out in Taxes Act 1988.

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  • Thus an individual with a covert bacteriuria has a life expectancy of less than 3 years.

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  • When a life insurer declares annual bonuses, they become an instant liability on its books.

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  • Air only - term used to describe a life jacket that only becomes buoyant upon filling with gas.

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  • Stewart, who has 18 separate convictions for 71 offenses, is serving a life sentence for the murder of his Asian cellmate.

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  • Telling people to ' Get a life ' among other things is a very childlike thing to do.

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  • I don't think I'd ever enter into a life long courtship with someone who didn't have a lot to teach me.

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  • Seven people have been arrested as part of a nationwide crackdown on the trafficking of women into a life of vise.

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  • Determinable interest ' determinable interest ' Determinable interest ' applies to a life interest that ends following an action by the beneficiary.

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  • On the same holiday Dave slipped into a life of crime when he stole the clothes off a pair of skinny dippers.

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  • Each of us in this room stands a life eviscerated by the actions of another.

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  • This week's awards The man who invented the zip fastener was today honored with a life peerage.

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  • I do not know where a man finds the fulcrum that enables him to hold out against such a life.

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  • Its purpose is also to encourage discernment by those who are looking for sound reference points for a life of greater fulness.

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  • If a person has a life threatening illness or injury then they should still call 999.

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  • She is a life size inflatable doll with printed face.

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  • On graduation in 1984 he went to work as a prison officer, only escaping from a life contract by feigning insanity.

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  • By being in touch with yourself through a life long process of self introspection, you will be aware of any changes within yourself.

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  • I found the ladder leading up to it but Taffy started to panic as he didn't have a life belt on.

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  • These tiles have a life expectancy of 50 years or more.

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  • The parole board decides on further applications and all mandatory lifers who are released are on a life license and subject to recall.

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  • They have a life span of 60,000 hours compared to about 30,000 hours for plasma TVs.

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  • The card is fitted with a lithium battery giving a life span of 2 years.

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  • What appears minor in isolation, may be the tip of a trend that can be avoided, and a life saved.

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  • The work demanded seems reducible to a virtually negligible portion of a life.

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  • Undeterred, Macmillan re-read a life of Machiavelli, and turned his attention to Nigeria and its newly discovered oil fields.

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  • Grove House Provides specialist palliative care on a daily basis to all people affected by cancer or a life threatening illness.

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  • You'll be wearing a parachute, just like you would wear a life jacket whilst sailing.

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  • Benjamin Britten was awarded a life peerage in 1976.

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  • Dr. David Hope, whose title is now ' Bishop ' Hope, is to be granted a life peerage.

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  • A small asymptomatic pneumothorax may rapidly develop into a life threatening tension pneumothorax during anesthesia.

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  • Our -ism is declared in our almost religious devotion to a life determined, not from within ourselves, but by divine technological whim.

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  • Somehow the words scrawled on our Prayer Room wall had taken on a life of their own.

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  • It is a life on the ocean wave, not one that seeks the seclusion of a safe harbor.

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  • Caroline Herschel was rescued by William from a life of domestic servitude under her mother in Hanover.

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  • It led to a life sentence in the US for a pizza slice theft.

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  • As well as rendering little girls speechless, it's a life saver for busy mums.

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  • The five members of a sheep herding family lead a life far removed from modern civilization in the endless expanse of the Mongolian steppe.

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  • A pioneering program to help stop young people falling into a life of crime is proving a success.

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  • What happens if saving a life means prolonging suffering in ways that do not seem to be in a child's best interests?

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  • From the babbling station tannoy to the squeaking door of the hotel dining room, Tati gives inanimate objects a life of their own.

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  • One was a life size statue of a sitting Afghan Hound in the man's study and that seemed topical.

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  • Otherwise a life as a member of a pack will become completely unbearable.

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  • He gave me the only security I had left in a life which had become unbearable.

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  • A reminder that our words, once uttered, have a life of their own.

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  • Vice Presidentr your donation you will become a life Vice-President of the club.

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  • How did this man become so fabulously wealthy from a life supposedly devoted to public service?

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  • A sense of utterly untamed wilderness beckons tantalizingly at the capital's boundaries, reminding the inhabitants of a life that was once theirs.

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  • Minister Nicky Cruz is behind the team of former gangsters currently touring housing estates to deter youngsters from a life of crime.

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  • Caro's George Sand (1887) is rather a critique than a life.

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  • And just because individuals whose lives have uniqueness of meaning are here only objects of pursuit, the attainment of this very individuality, since it is indeed real, occurs not in our present form of consciousness, but in a life that now we see not, yet in a life whose genuine meaning is continuous with our own human life, however far from our present flickering form of disappointed human consciousness that life of the final individuality may be.

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  • At the age of thirteen or fourteen he went to the Jesuit College of Clermont at Paris, where he stayed till the summer of 1588, and where he laid the foundations of his profound knowledge, while perfecting himself in the exercises of a young nobleman and practising a life of exemplary virtue.

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  • He published in 1898 a Life of his father, and among his other works may be mentioned Les Morticoles (1894); Les Deux Etreintes (Igor); La Decheance (1904); Les Primaires (1906); La Lutte (1907) and L' Avant Guerre (1913).

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  • A critical text of the letters, with notes, bibliography and a life in Spanish, will be found in Monumenta Xaveriana ex Autographis vel ex Antiquioribus Exemplis collecta, vol.

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  • Jeremy Taylor with a life of the author and a critical examination of his writings was published by Bishop Reginald Heber in 1822, reissued after careful revision by Charles Page Eden (1847-54).

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  • Altertums (2 vols., 3rd ed., 1893); his Epistolae were published by Cannato (Florence, 1 759) with a life by Mehus; Bollandist Bibl.

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  • Urban slaves had probably often a life as little enviable, especially those who worked at trades for speculators.

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  • In England there is a bank (the Reliance Bank, Ltd.) and a Life Assurance Society, the funds of the latter amounting to £566,309 in 1909.

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  • In 1526 he returned to Schlettstadt, and devoted himself to a life of learned leisure, enlivened with epistolary and personal intercourse with Erasmus (the printing of whose more important works he personally superintended) and many other scholars of his time.

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  • By releasing his or her right of dower or courtesy together with the homestead right, if any, the surviving widower or widow is also entitled, in fee, to one-half the real estate, if said deceased leaves no issue surviving; if the husband leaves issue by the widow surviving, she is entitled in fee to one-third of his real estate; if the wife leaves issue by him surviving, the husband also is entitled in fee to one-third of her estate; but if the wife leaves issue not by him, he is entitled only to a life interest in one-third of her real estate.

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  • In private character he was amiable and affectionate; his generosity in recognizing the merits of others secured him against the worst shafts of envy; and a life marked by numerous disquietudes was cheered and ennobled by sentiments of sincere piety.

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  • In his later years, however, he fell into a mood of settled melancholy; and, though still accessible to all who chose to approach him with complaints or petitions, he withdrew from all but the most essential social functions, and lived a life of strenuous work and of Spartan simplicity.

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  • He thought it ought to be made useful to guide men to the grace of God and to tell them how to persevere in a life of joyous obedience to God and His commandments.

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  • Among the natives, more especially of the interior, an innate restlessness which leads to a life of spasmodic nomadism, poverty, insufficient nourishment, an incredible improvidence which induces them to convert into intoxicating liquor a large portion of their annual crops, feasts of a semi-religious character which are invariably accompanied by prolonged drunken orgies, and certain superstitions which necessitate the frequent procuration of abortion, have contributed to check the growth of population.

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  • A widower is entitled by courtesy to a life interest in all his wife's real estate; if she dies intestate, he is entitled to all her personal estate; if she dies intestate, leaving no descendants and no paternal or maternal kindred, he is entitled to her whole estate absolutely.

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  • The life of a recluse is held to be the most conducive to that state of sweet serenity at which the more ardent disciples aim; but that of a layman, of a believing householder, is held in high honour; and a believer who does not as yet feel himself able or willing to cast off the ties of home or of business, may yet "enter the paths," and by a life of rectitude and kindness ensure for himself a rebirth under more favourable conditions for his growth in holiness.

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  • In spite of his reverence for his brother's memory, he made a clean sweep of " the angel's " Bible Society,' and other paraphernalia of official hypocrisy; as for Alexander's projects of reform, the pitiful legacy of a life of unfulfilled purposes, these were reported upon by committees, considered and shelved.

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  • Leading such a life I can't decide or think properly about anything.

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  • He ceased keeping a diary, avoided the company of the Brothers, began going to the club again, drank a great deal, and came once more in touch with the bachelor sets, leading such a life that the Countess Helene thought it necessary to speak severely to him about it.

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  • Thoughts that had not entered her mind for years--thoughts of a life free from the fear of her father, and even the possibility of love and of family happiness--floated continually in her imagination like temptations of the devil.

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  • He was a life long friend to members of my family and recounted anecdotes from their times together.

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  • A jury at Bristol Crown Court found him guilty and he is serving a life sentence at Gartree jail in Leicestershire.

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  • After a life of small-time jobs and petty thefts you 've been accepted into America 's most famous criminal organization.

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  • The fact that she has snuffed out a life has left her intensely aroused.

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  • An actuary can advise on the solvency of a life assurance company and a pension fund.

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  • As well as rendering little girls speechless, it 's a life saver for busy mums.

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  • The spontaneity of a life sitting is clearly visible.

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  • Such a life of striving for perfection must be rooted in prayer.

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  • Rule three stated 'A donation of ten guineas shall constitute a life member and a subscription of one guinea a yearly member.

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  • What happens if saving a life means prolonging suffering in ways that do not seem to be in a child 's best interests?

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  • Ice PR Ltd and the Funky Bunker Studios are the summation of a life hooked on music for JP.

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  • These thoughtless drivers are prepared to risk cutting short a life just to cut a minute off their journey.

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  • One was a life size statue of a sitting Afghan Hound in the man 's study and that seemed topical.

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  • In return for your donation you will become a life Vice-President of the club.

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  • A sense of utterly untamed wilderness beckons tantalizingly at the capital 's boundaries, reminding the inhabitants of a life that was once theirs.

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  • I don't know how she lives a life of such unmitigated joy.

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  • After losing his fortune, he became homeless and lived a life of degradation.

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  • I was inspired when Jamie was able to take his fiasco of a life and turn it around completely into a success.

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  • In other words, the water alone will not wash us clean or submerge us into a life with Christ.

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  • In doing so, they are committing their child to a life of service to Christ.

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  • Thank you Polly Fox, you are a life saver.

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  • The traditional Siamese cat has a life expectancy of fifteen to twenty years with a few individuals living even longer than that.

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  • This is a life threatening problem that needs to be handled quickly.

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  • It's a very good idea to include a provision that a life insurance policy be put in place for the paying spouse for the total amount of alimony that he or she could be expected to pay.

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  • With support and guidance, children can overcome the negativity surrounding divorce and turn it into a life lesson they can carry on through adulthood and their relationships.

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  • Having solid plans in place for co-parenting doesn't mean you have to live a life of solemn rigidity dependent on following a checklist of do's and don'ts.

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  • The in-ground part of the system is estimated to last half a century and the internal components have a life expectancy of twenty-five years or more.

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  • It's useful when camping or hiking, and can be a life saver if you get lost in the wilderness for any amount of time.

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  • Soon, the style took on a life of its own and grew beyond Napoleon’s influence.

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  • With such a success rate, if you're looking for a life partner look no further.

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  • Learning how to make no bake cookies can be the first step toward a life long love of baking and year after year these easy recipes will be family favorites.

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  • You don't have to live a life in a constant state of anxiety and worry.

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  • If you suffer from stress in your life, taking stress management classes teaches you the skills you need to live a life that is happier and healthier.

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  • By the 1980s, prom took on a life of its own and became a "coming into adulthood" dance.

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  • In a culture where it's commonly accepted for teens to go against many of the things the Bible stands for, it's important for Christian teens to live a life that truly speaks about their faith.

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  • However, in some cases where a teen relationship continues and survives such a life changing event, the father of the baby may have a huge influence on the decision to continue with the pregnancy or opt for an abortion.

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  • In addition to forums on topics from music to poetry, the site also has a life events section to network teens together.

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  • Proper nutrition is essential for the growing teen to live as healthy a life as they possibly can.

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  • Making sure that action is taken against bullying within your school and your community can even save a life if the bullying is severe.

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  • This knowledge can provide them a life of not only wealth but also financial security, even in a hard economy.

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  • For example, in the Jewish ceremony, the bride and groom are asked whether they are willing to commit to a life justified by their faith in God and Israel.

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  • Drug addiction help is available for both adults and teens who are suffering from an abuse problem or a life threatening addiction.

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  • Some live a life based on many lies while others make up stories that relate to their life.

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  • The children of the family - Paris and her younger siblings, Nicky, Barron II, and Conrad II - lived a life of indulgence and privilege, moving from one multi-million dollar home to another.

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  • Chapman plead guilty to Lennon's murder and is serving a life sentence in Attica State Prison (New York).

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  • He eventually fought his way out of a life of crime to become a popular music icon who commands much respect from just about everyone but his fellow rap artists.

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  • I have a life and I have my family and I have work and I have those three things."

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  • During the monologue, Spears (who served as guest host) discussed the gossip while her breasts seemingly took on a life of their own - the monologue was met with applause and laughter.

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  • If you were able to read this far, then surely you have deduced that VH1 is following celebrities through their respective journeys of kicking their substance abuse habits and learning to live a life of sobriety.

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  • The best part about the final season of The Hills, which begins airing on April 27, 2010 is that we will no longer be subject to Spencer and Heidi's ridiculousness they call a life.

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  • Gerald went on to admit that he was abused as a child and that led him to a life of drug abuse by the time he was 11.

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  • Although there are some disadvantages to a life experience degree, the benefits are that you can continue working, taking care of family responsibilities and save money by not having to go through a four year program.

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  • Working on a cruise ship is not a life of endless tropical getaways, luxury accommodations, and sumptuous meals.

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  • You can attend a life changing seminar in the morning and spend your afternoon enjoying five-star dining, swimming, getting pampered at the ship's spa or working out at a state-of-the-art fitness center.

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  • You still get the purebred you were looking for, but this time you have saved a life and the fee is far less than buying a puppy right out of the gate.

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  • I hope this tips comes in handy, but what I do know is it can be a life saver.

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  • Your dog's gift may help a sick dog or a dog that faces a life threatening injury from an accident.

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  • You'll receive a life member key ring, blanket and gardening gloves, as well as a set of gardening tools.

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  • They refund any dues you have already paid, so if you've been a member for a couple of years before you decide to become a life member, it will actually cost a little less.

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  • Properly cared for shutters enjoy a life of thirty years or more.

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  • Moreover, this clothing encourages all that wear it to make a life time commitment to avoiding not only recreational drugs, but also alcohol and tobacco.

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  • Eating organic does not doom you to a life of only snacking on fruits and veggies.

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  • Choosing a Life Alert personal response system gives you peace of mind while providing round-the-clock monitoring of emergency situations.

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  • Boating and jet skies - If you are on a boat or jet ski, you should be wearing a life jacket regardless of your age.

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  • Accidents happen quickly and a life jacket could do just that - save your life.

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  • Annuities are an investment in a life insurance policy that offers steady lifetime payments after an initial investment.

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  • People may also avoid probate by purchasing a life insurance policy, or by putting money into a joint savings account with another person.

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  • In order to avoid paying estate taxes on the proceeds from a life insurance policy, designate someone as the beneficiary.

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  • You have a life of memories to reminisce about or share with loved ones.

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  • In many situations, people simply forget that an older person had a life before, with hobbies, pastimes, and other interests.

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  • This formula is based on the average retirement age of 65 and a life expectancy of 85-90.

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  • Many senior citizens choose to take a life insurance policy in their later years to ensure that their final expenses are not a burden to loved ones.

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  • Take the experience as a life lesson, and learn all that you can about it.

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  • Snoring is mostly a nuisance, but in some situations can be a life threatening condition.

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  • Individuals who suffer from this illness have a life threatening infection that can cause sleep disturbances, which is where it gets its name.

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  • The Millennium Maze - In North County Kildare, Ireland includes a life size maze, crazy golf, sandpit and a petting zoo.

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  • Weak swimmers can pick up a life vest inside the park gates.

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  • It's a life simulator where you keep a pack of wolves surviving day by day.

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  • Battle Mode is the best part of this game, where you play versus, but must control a life bar at the end of the game.

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  • He is by all accounts living a life that has made him the envy of millions of gamers around the world.

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  • Stay away from trees or you will lose a life.

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  • Oh, and all of this was accomplished while your health meter slowly ran down like a timer, meaning you either needed to find food to replenish your health or insert more quarters for a life boost.

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  • He really wants to get out of the peasant life and back into a life of excess and luxury.

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  • Master Chief settles down into a life support tube.

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  • The only other way to lose a life is to run out of any possible moves.

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  • Clear your path by moving blocks around, but don't make too many moves or the ghost of Anibus will get you and you'll lose a life.

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  • You couldn't be slow or you would lose a life.

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  • Instead of building up a life making friends, a family, and furthering a career, all you had to do in the Singles game was to find women to get busy with.

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  • Having a small unit in your glove box, like the Emergency Pro Flashlight radio, can be a life saver in bad weather.

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  • The goal for children with CMT is to live as normal a life as possible.

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  • Yoga has been practiced for thousands of years as a life philosophy to join the individual self with what practitioners call the Divine, Universal Spirit, or Cosmic Consciousness.

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  • When functions of the brain are severely limited, the child may be placed on a life support system.

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  • Just because a child has stolen does not mean he or she is going to grow up to live a life of crime.

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  • People with spinal cord injuries caused by traumatic events have in the past been considered hopeless cases destined to a life of paralysis.

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  • Many like to carry on the legacy of a life by establishing a fund or contributing to an existing foundation in memory and honor of a grandparent.

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  • The directions of a bagua map each directly relate to a life aspect and to the specific area of your house found at the corresponding direction.

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  • Soul ar Energy explains how to use the feng shui color wheel as a Life Satisfaction Tool to check if your life is in balance.

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  • Put more focus on mussing the hair rather than styling, since a peasant lived a life filled with chores and hard work, with little time or reason to dress formally.

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  • Many celebrities have to deal with negative publicity from time to time; it's all too easy for the public to read the news and judge, but living a life in the spotlight can't be a dream all the time.

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  • With modern technology and advanced medical procedures, this simple test may be a life saver in the event of a birthing emergency.

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  • Delta has always been a beautiful woman, but she has waged a life long struggle with health and weight issues.

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  • This is because no matter how sedentary a life style, this key area tends to remain more delicately proportioned than other areas of the body (like the hips and waist).

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  • Boat U.S. Foundation, operates a life jacket loaner program.

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  • While you can get near the water without a bathing suit and towel, a life jacket should never be left behind.

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  • Regardless of how well you can swim and how close by you are to your child, your child should always be wearing a life jacket.

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  • Even if a life jacket seems to fit properly, be sure to check the weight specifications on the tag.

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  • Little girls love playing with their dolls and giving them a life of their own.

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  • These toys take on a life of their own as children train and interact with them.

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  • Some spaces give you the option of buying a product or making a life decision.

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  • When you get married, you add another peg to your car and get a Life tile.

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  • When you have a baby, you add the correct color of peg to your car and collect a Life tile.

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  • Other spaces with the Life logo also allow you to collect a Life tile.

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  • Landing on a life tile space means you take one life tile from the pile, unless there are none left, which means you take one from another player.

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  • The fact is that blood donations of all blood types are greatly needed and your commitment to donate blood could help save a life.

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  • There are several ways that you can make a difference in a life of an animal.

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  • You just may be inspired to be a blood donor and end up saving a life.

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  • In addition to more mainstream dating websites, there are also sites for people seeking partners in prison There are a number of reasons that you may wish to seek out a life mate on the inside.

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  • This is the person you love, the person you wanted to build a life with.

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  • Often shemale escorts endure a life of violence and abuse.

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  • Rather than trying to hold on to her, try to be willing to let her go in order for her to realize that life with you is better than a life without you.

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  • Being in a life long relationship takes maturity, your actions show you are not there yet.

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  • Together, share a vision of how things between you both would look if each of you were living a life together in which each felt supported, passionate, wanted and desired.

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  • This is a serious charge carrying a life long label as a sex offender.

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  • I can't help but wonder if this is your ex's way of trying to get you to move on with your life… a life without her?

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  • You can't be in the kind of love that is meant to last a life time and also desire to date others.

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  • The college experience is similar to those depicted on television such living in a dorm room, racing to classes, pledging to the Greek houses, enjoying crazy pranks and a life of freedom.

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  • If you're locked into a life of work and other obligations and you can't seem to find time to get out and meet new people, online dating services for singles are one way to solve the problem.

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  • Great conversations tend to have a life of their own and flow in many directions, so it helps to be both spontaneous and have some topics ready in advance.

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  • In the same respect, some couples spend too much time together and forget that there is a life besides the one the two of them live in.

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  • I have created a life here for myself and I want someone here to share it with.

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  • Choosing a life partner is one of the most important decisions you'll ever make, and proposing puts your heart on the line.

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  • That dishonesty and deception is not the foundation on which you want to build a life together.

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  • The proposal, after all, is the first step toward building a life together.

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  • Valentine's Day is not the only holiday suitable for beginning a life together.

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  • An unusual engraving on a ring will be a unique way to celebrate and demonstrate a life long partnership.

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  • Ideally, before a couple gets engaged they should talk seriously about the commitment of marriage and how they could build a life together.

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  • If a promise ring may be seen as insulting or belittling, the couple may want to consider a very long engagement while they prepare for a life together, instead of making a lesser commitment.

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  • Everyone has a life path number according to numerology.

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  • For example, if most of your planets fall in either the house of philosophy (the 9th house) or the house of social status (the 11th house), even a Cancer would lean towards a life of travel and academia.

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  • Scorpio is serious when it comes to choosing a life mate and will want someone who is equally serious about creating a family and life together.

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  • He's looking for a life mate and someone with whom to raise a family.

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  • This can lead to a life of excess that can become a harmful and even life-threatening flaw if left unchecked.

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  • Overall, a good match for a Capricorn will appreciate a hard day's work and a life philosophy that is less "live in the moment" and more "look to the future".

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  • Taurus craves a home where he can settle down and build a life.

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  • He needs a life partner that shares the same perspective, and an obvious choice for that mate is another earth sign.

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  • At times it seems parents should just resign themselves to a life of sleep deprivation.

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  • Originally developed as a Nintendo Game Boy video game in 1995, Pokemon took on a life of its own in merchandising possibilities.

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  • Not only will your child get a new pet, but she can also save a life and learn about volunteering opportunities in her community.

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  • Learning to volunteer is a life lesson that should be taught young.

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  • This can be a fun activity and a life skill that your daughter will find comes in handy once she is an adult.

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  • Zack (Dane Cook) is more of a college reject, happy with a life of no expectations until now.

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  • Why didn't Cinderella just get up and leave to start a life of her own?

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  • Working with the editor ensures that the final product remains faithful to your vision, while still allowing the film some freedom to take on a life of its own.

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  • As the love interest of Spider-Man himself, Mary Jane Watson goes from high school stud to theater star to a life endangered.

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  • While western movies may be popular for showing a life no longer known, their greatest memory is the categorization that they fall into.

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  • Ghost stories urban legends take on a life of their own as they are told again and again.

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