public life

The virtues which accompanied him into public life did not desert him in private.

Is there a detail of my private or public life that you don't meddle with—as it pleases you?

But he still lived a public life, in a cage, surrounded by curious men.

I am always conscious of that, Joe; the ramifications of public life are innumerable.

And if his public life was free from all offence, so was his private.

But will this account for the rapid distinctions of your public life?

Nor that he has given up his seat in the House, and retired from public life?

"He's scarcely the stuff for public life," muttered Sir Horace.

I may say that, materially, method has been the foundation of my success in public life.

But Knox's public life was not the whole of his work: in bulk, it was a small part of it.