Meditating Sentence Examples

Gregory was meditating a return to Avignon when he died.

The Venetians returned, and order was soon restored, but the republic was meditating the seizure of Cyprus, although it had no valid title whatever, and after the death of Caterina's child in 1474 it was Venice which really governed the island.

So he lay now on his bed, supporting his large, heavy, scarred head on his plump hand, with his one eye open, meditating and peering into the darkness.

Here he joined the party of Skuli, who was meditating a revolt.

Here he spent his time partly among books, meditating on Roman history, and preparing himself for the Latin epic of Africa.

When Maximus usurped the supreme power in Gaul, and was meditating a descent upon Italy, Valentinian sent Ambrose to dissuade him from the undertaking, and the embassy was successful.

Or by meditating on the inner radiance that is beyond sorrow.

In 1823, when the reactionary powers were meditating joint action to suppress the - revolution in Spain, the government without consultin P ?

Although his exceptional method of address seems to have gained him the qualified approval of certain dignitaries of the church, the prospect of his obtaining a settled charge seemed as remote as ever, and he was meditating a missionary tour in Persia when his departure was arrested by steps taken by Dr Chalmers, which, after considerable delay, resulted, in October 1819, in Irving being appointed his assistant and missionary in St John's parish, Glasgow.

It was a son of this usurper who was reigning at the time of the invasion of Alexander the Great; and the conqueror, when his advance was arrested at the Hyphasis (326 B.e.), meditating an attack on Pataliputra (the Palimbothra of the Greeks), was informed that the king of Magadha could oppose him with a force of 20,000 cavalry, 200,000 infantry, 2000 chariots, and 3000 or 4000 elephants.

The outlook for the papacy was dark; Portugal was talking of a patriarchate; France held Avignon; Naples held Ponte Corvo and Benevento; Spain was ill-affected; Parma, defiant; Venice, aggressive; Poland meditating a restriction of the rights of the nuncio.

This is the highest order of asceticism, members of which are supposed to be solely engaged in meditating on the Brahma, and to be" equally indifferent to pleasure or pain, insensible of heat or cold, and incapable of satiety or want."Some of them go about naked, but the majority are clad like the Dandis.

He calls Aga Mahommed chief of Mazandaran, as also of Astarabad and some districts situate in Khurasan, and describes his tribe the Kajar, to be, like the Indian Rajput, usually devoted to the profession of arms. Whatever hold his father may have had on Gilan, it is certain that this province was not then in the sons possession, for his brother, Jiafir Kuli, governor of Baifrush (Balfroosh), had made a recent incursion into it and driven Hidaiyat Khan, its ruler, from Resht to Enzeli, and Aga Mahommed was himself meditating another attack on the same quarter.

His attention had been directed to the growing importance of the affairs of India, and there is evidence in his correspondence that he was meditating a comprehensive scheme for transferring much of the power of the company to the crown, when he was withdrawn from public business in a manner that has always been regarded as somewhat mysterious.

Having secured his chair for his brother he went to Damascus, Jerusalem, Hebron, Mecca, Medina and Alexandria, studying, meditating and writing in these cities.

To pay his debts he was obliged to resort to heavy taxation in Aquitaine, which gave his discontented subjects in Poitou and the other outlying districts an excuse for the rebellion that they had been for some time meditating.

Somewhere about the end of 1526 those who were in the kings intimate confidence began to be aware that he was meditating a divorcea thing not lightly to be taken in hand, for the queen was the aunt of the emperor Charles V., who would be vastly offended at such a proposal.

He occupied himself during this time in meditating upon what he had read in the works of Grotius and Hobbes.

Fellow detectives Tom DeLeo and Andy Sackler, seated across the room, were arguing as usual while the only other occupant, newcomer Detective Lenny Harrigan, was either catching a quick nap or meditating.

He spent a week meditating whether or not he should also buy an overcoat.

Personal development is not just about the spiritual light, meditating or becoming a yogi.

He was essentially an amiable man, who hated the zeal for an impossible orthodoxy that constrained "the church to institute a search after crimes which have not betrayed an existence, yea, and to drag into open contentions those who are meditating no evil."

Frowning with vexation at the effort necessary to divest himself of his coat and trousers, the prince undressed, sat down heavily on the bed, and appeared to be meditating as he looked contemptuously at his withered yellow legs.

He was not meditating, but only deferring the moment of making the effort to lift those legs up and turn over on the bed.

Praying, meditating, or other quiet time will strengthen you for all the challenges of single parenthood.

Before getting started, avoid consuming alcohol, caffeine or food for at least two hours prior to meditating.

If meditating indoors, dim the lights and if outdoors, choose a shaded location.

Focus on a chosen thought while meditating.

Try to continue meditating for the full time no matter how frustrated you get or how many times an unwelcome thought drifts into your head.

If meditating is not for you, don't worry!

It's a great meditation for people new to meditating because it's simple and only 13 minutes long.

Place cushions or pillows on the floor to use a support when meditating.

Do something relaxing such as taking a bath, meditating or reading a book.

Reading and meditating on already written works as well as writing your own expression of sorrow are some of the ways to experience poetry.

The key to using them most effectively lies in understanding the universal symbols that are present in the deck, and then meditating on what those symbols mean for you and for the question you've asked.

People who have been meditating for years are able to concentrate almost effortlessly.

Groups such as the Self Realization Fellowship offer meditation lessons by mail along with many books, videos, DVDs and tapes to help you begin meditating.

They spent 10 minutes per class in breathing exercises, 15 minutes warming up, 50 minutes doing yoga, and 10 minutes meditating.

The Spanish governor, Gonzalo de Cordova, had given him a safe-conduct, and he was meditating fresh plans, when Gonzalo arrested him by the order of Ferdinand of Spain as a disturber of the peace of Italy (May 1504).

Meditating, it is probable, emigration upon his release, he turned his attention while in prison to colonial subjects, and acutely detected the main causes of the slow progress of the Australian colonies in the enormous size of the landed estates, the reckless manner in which land was given away, the absence of all systematic effort at colonization, and the consequent discouragement of immigration and dearth of labour.

He founded the university of Pressburg (Academia Istropolitana, 1467), revived the declining university of Pecs, and, at the time of his death, was meditating the establishment of a third university at Buda.

Even in his old age he displayed the same restless energy, and is said to have been meditating a fresh attack on Carthage at the time of his death.

In 1554, when Charles was meditating his abdication, and wished to secure the position of his son, he summoned Philip to Flanders again, and arranged the marriage with Mary, queen of England, who was the daughter of his sister Catherine, in order to form a union of Spain, the Netherlands and England, before which France would be powerless.

She determined to reverse the policy of her husband and to bring France into alliance with Spain and the Austrian house, upon which power Henry had been meditating an attack at the time of his death.

He stood a little behind the governor and held himself with military decorum through the service, meditating on a great variety of subjects.

But their importunity made a hermitage in Paris impossible; a graceless friend even surprised the philosopher in bed at eleven in the morning meditating and taking notes.