practisers

But in truth, as the same science deals with contraries, and the power of reason can be used to opposite ends, and at the same the human mind is more inclined to evil, it happens with the practisers of this science that they usually devote themselves to promoting contention rather than peace, and instead of quoting laws according to the intent of the legislator, violently strain the language thereof to effect their own purposes.

The Love of Books : The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury 2007

His name was Monsieur de Galgenstein, and he was one of the most successful of the practisers of his rascally trade.

The Memoires of Barry Lyndon 2006

Of those who are found truly indefatigable in business, some are misers; some are the practisers of delightful industries, like gardening; some are students, artists, inventors, or discoverers, men lured forward by successive hopes; and the rest are those who live by games of skill or hazard — financiers, billiard-players, gamblers, and the like.

Lay Morals 2005

Certaine persons granted to be sent home into England that serued the company, and were practisers against them in that countrey.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

The others are resident and are industrious practisers of the art which, according to their interpretation, is anything but gentle.

My Tropic Isle 2003

And, besides, I knew that, by all the rules of art-magic, there were formula and oaths which none of its practisers dared break.

The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 Various

For a controversy it certainly was, where the speakers of the present age did not want an advocate, who supported their cause with zeal, and, after treating antiquity with sufficient freedom, and even derision, assigned the palm of eloquence to the practisers of modern times.

A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements Caius Cornelius Tacitus

Chaldea and Egypt were the first, as far as is known, to cultivate the science of magic: the former people long gave the well-known name to the professional practisers of the art.

The Superstitions of Witchcraft Howard Williams

For you do not know, by Jupiter! that these feed very many sophists, Thurian soothsayers, practisers of medicine, lazy-long-haired-onyx-ring-wearers, song-twisters for the cyclic dances, and meteorological quacks.

Clouds 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes

What we do find is a very widespread art-literature and talk of art, a large number of working artists varying in temperament, and a vast horde of amateurs, who are not content to be patrons, but yearn also to be practisers of art.

Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878 Various