active member

• “He was an active member of a committee organized to extend help to them, and this committee was instrumental in obtaining the release from imprisonment in Berlin of Dr. S.G. Howe, who “had been entrusted with twenty thousand francs for the relief of the distressed Poles.””

  Letters and Journals 01

• “A poet, a scholar, a traveller, a diplomat, a famous wit, an active member of Parliament from the Restoration to his death in 1678, the life of Andrew Marvell might a priori be supposed to be one easy to write, at all events after the fashion in which men's lives get written.”

  Andrew Marvell

• “Dr. Carlyle, who was an active member of the club, says it began to decline when it transferred itself to more elegant quarters at Fortune's, because its dinners became too expensive for the members; and Lord Campbell attributes its dissolution definitely to the new taxes imposed on French wines to pay the cost of the American War.”

  Life of Adam Smith

• “This happened on his eighth birthday, and the event marked an epoch in his life, for he was elected an active member of the Tuesday club, and began to take lessons regularly of the convivial Paulsen.”

  Famous Violinists of To-day and Yesterday

• “He was an active member of several of the academies of the time, and, as an associate of the Crusca, aided in preparing its important”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss

• “Small indications of the adventurous spirit that had taken him to the American frontier were his hobbies: he dabbled in new inventions, especially typewriters; was interested in spiritualism; was fluent in Esperanto; and was an active member of a local debating society, where he met the socialist Sydney Webb and the young George Bernard Shaw.”

  Simon & Schuster: Makeshift Metropolis

• “Being an active member of the firm -- and to do the gentleman justice, a very efficient one -- young Lavasser, now that the tasteless honeymoon was over, would be expected to resume his place in the office.”

  The Story of a Slave. A Realistic Revelation of a Social Relation of Slave Times--Hitherto Unwritten--From the Pen of One Who Has Felt Both the Lash and the Caress of a Mistress

• “Once released, he became an active member of the newly formed Communist Party of Yugoslavia CPY and traveled to Moscow, birthplace of the revolution, to learn from the Soviet Communist Party.”

  Simon & Schuster: The J Curve

• “I have personally confirmed to the Secretary General that, while Australia would be an active member of the PKO, we are expecting to have”

  East Timor - The Way Ahead

• “He was an accomplished scholar, not only in theology, but also in archæology, and he was an active member of the Chetham Holbein and”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI

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