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Example sentences for "private person"

  • If a private person sell to another private person, he shall have the right of restitution, and the decision shall be given as before, but the defendant, if he be cast, shall only pay back the price of the slave.

  • But she retained the younger, Aristobulus, with her as a private person, by reason of the warmth of his temper.

  • Examination about one's faith is made either by a private person or by public authority.

  • When a supreme good of a private person is at stake, one should prefer to help him, even if a stranger, rather than another who is a friend, or relative, but who is not in the same distress.

  • In actions and passions a person's station affects the quantity of a thing: for it is a greater injury to strike a prince than a private person.

  • If a ruler command a private person to go to mass, to own any falsehood, or to do any sin, he is not to be obeyed, because God is to be first obeyed.

  • A report likewise prevailed, that if he returned as a private person, he would, like Milo, have to plead his cause before the judges, surrounded by armed men.

  • In this speech he again confirmed, in the presence of the people, his former declaration in parliament, that he by no means had any influence as minister of State in this election, but only and merely as a private person.

  • What danger could result from my living as a private person in the heart of England, and restricted in any way which the Government should think proper?

  • He has said repeatedly, 'I can no longer live as a private person.

  • The fourth side was occupied by a chateau which would have been spacious for a private person, but which meant little for a court; a few dependencies; the beginning of a garden planted by Le Notre.

  • I am convinced that I am robbed, and to prevent this, I wish to be accounted to as if I were a private person.

  • These characteristics, very rare with a great princess, had proved of great value during her youth of humiliating poverty, when she was reduced to living as a "private person.

  • But to assist every one who is needy far surpasses the strength or profit of a private person, for the wealth of a private person is altogether insufficient to supply such wants.

  • Moreover, no private person can by right vindicate these laws, and so they do not really bind him who holds dominion.

  • His dress and retinue were scarcely equal to the style of a private person of moderate fortune; while his discourse was humble and incoherent, depreciating his own wealth and complaining of the poverty of the cities under his sway.

  • No private person in Israel was to slaughter any such animal anywhere in the camp or out of it, except at the door of the tent of meeting.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    common ground; deafening roar; more perfect; passed away; presently after; private apartments; private capital; private citizen; private collections; private hands; private individuals; private libraries; private life; private office; private papers; private property; private residence; private rights; private sector; private ship; private sitting; private society; private trade; private view; private wealth; used instead