The book that made him famous was one he wrote with no particular goal of publication, "for my private exercise and satisfaction".
An unfussy, nylon-string version of And I Love Her is one of the standouts of a typically subtle (though occasionally rather distantly private) exercise in guitar lyricism.
In the abstract, this thought did not contradict the principles of the Great Separation, which gave reasons for protecting the private exercise of religion.
Lan Tuazon prints her own currency, and requires a written promise from its recipients to distribute it further, thus turning art into a private exercise in growth capital.
He may exhibit them one day, he says, but painting has always been "a largely private exercise" for him, as opposed to illustration, which pays the bills.
At Shibden Hall Browne had begun his parallel career as a writer with Religio Medici, a journal largely about the mysteries of God, nature, and man, which he himself described as "a private exercise directed to myself".
Although Cromwell made his detestation of Catholicism very plain, Catholics benefited from the repeal of the laws requiring attendance at parish churches, and they were less persecuted for the private exercise of their own faith than at any other time in the century.
So if meaning is to be obtained for the "sign", this must be achieved through a private exercise of ostensive definition, where I concentrate on the sensation and produce the sign at the same time.
The First Amendment forbids Congress from passing laws that restrict the free exercise of religion--particularly private exercise.
