23 examples of practisers in sentences

The ever smaller minority of strict practisers make use of a right which nobody can contest.

And well in common speech are such practisers so termed, the grounds of that practice being so vain, and the effect so unhappy.

IV. Let us consider, that rash and vain swearing is very apt often to bring the practiser of it into that most horrible sin of perjury.

But such pleas do no more than suggest other faults of swearing, and good arguments against it; its impertinence, its abuse of speech, its disgracing the practiser of it in point of judgment and capacity.

By it the vile practiser achieveth the greatest mischief that can be.

Hence appositely are the practisers thereof termed whisperers and backbiters: their heart suffers them not openly to avow, their conscience tells them they cannot fairly defend their practice.

The other inmate, whose place was in one of his garrets, was Robert Levett, a practiser of physic among the lower people, grotesque in his appearance, formal in his manners, and silent before company: though little thought of by others, this man was so highly esteemed for his abilities by Johnson, that he was heard to say, he should not be satisfied though attended by all the College of Physicians, unless he had Levett with him.

Travellers of late have told us enoughand too much for our comfort of mindof that prevailing dread of poison as well as of magic which urges the African Negroes to deeds of horrible cruelty; and the fact that these African Negroes, up to the very latest importations, are the special practisers of Obeah, is notorious through the West Indies.

He runs as busily out of one room into another as a great practiser does in Westminster Hall from one court to another.

His tongue is like a great practiser's in law, for as the one will not stir, so the other will not taste without a great fee.

He will swear his ears through an inch-board, and wears them merely by favour of the Court; for, being amicus curiae, they are willing to let him keep the pillory out of possession, though he has forfeited his right never so often; for when he is once outed of his ears he is past his labour, and can do the commonwealth of practisers no more service.

He is a sworn officer of every court and a great practiser, is admitted within the Bar, and makes good what the rest of the counsel say.

ROBERT LEVET[a], A PRACTISER IN PHYSICK.

They had enabled him to pick up some of their art, and he set up as an "obscure practiser in physic amongst the lower people" in London.

* ON THE DEATH OF MR ROBERT LEVETT, A PRACTISER IN PHYSIC.

Not because he was the "father of the faithful," forsook home and country for the truth's sake, was the most eminent preacher and practiser of righteousness in his day; nay, verily, for all this he gets faint praise; but then he had "SERVANTS BOUGHT WITH MONEY!!!"

Not because he was the "father of the faithful," forsook home and country for the truth's sake, was the most eminent preacher and practiser of righteousness in his day; nay, verily, for all this he gets faint praise; but then he had "SERVANTS BOUGHT WITH MONEY!!!"

Pope, as a versifier, was regarded by this author, "not only as no master of his art, but as a very indifferent practiser.

195. PHYSIC, a science and trade, iii. 22, n. 4; irregular practisers in it, iii. 389: See under JOHNSON, physic.

You are now in a station, by which you necessarily preside over the liberal arts, and all the practisers and professors of them.

This virtue, however, if painful to the practisers, as no doubt it is, is expensive, too, to me, and I shall have to try some moral influence equivalent in value to a cent current coin of the realm.

The more I hear, and see, and learn, and ponder the whole of this system of slavery, the more impossible I find it to conceive how its practisers and upholders are to justify their deeds before the tribunal of their own conscience or God's law.

His necromantic skill, unlike that of too many practisers of supernatural arts, is exercised only for the benefit of the world: and whilst Circe transformed the companions of Ulysses into brute beasts, the benevolent enchanter of our day transforms brute beasts into handsome and attractive men.

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