Use learning in a sentence
Sentences starting with learning
- Learning goes usually with uprightness, broad views, and humanity; so the learned voters, possessing the balance of power, became the vigilant and efficient protectors of the great lower rank of society. [5]
- Learning is a kind of fetish, and it has no influence whatever upon the great inert mass of Chinese humanity. [4]
- Learning is regarded in like manner as an accumulation of literature, gathered into great storehouses called libraries--the thought of which excites great respect in most minds, but is ineffably tedious. [4]
Sentences ending with learning
- And I tell ye there are things in that Book that not one among ye can read, with all your learning! [5]
- He is the weigher, the philosopher among the gods, the lord of writing, of art and of learning. [10]
- Our guardian kept watch over my brothers' speed in learning. [10]
- No system was unknown to him, and though no one ever knew of his troubling himself particularly to study, he nevertheless was master of many departments of learning. [10]
- And when he told us of what he hoped to gain at that place we could but account his judgment good, and wish him good speed and that he might come home from that famous Italian school a luminary of learning. [10]
- The lawsuits of those days were extremely simple, and the principles of natural justice were mainly relied on to dispose of them at the Bar and on the Bench, without resort to technical learning. [7]
- Those who at the same time enrich their knowledge by its study ought not to detect the fact that they are learning. [10]
- I agreed when the Mayor said that there was not a man within hearing who did not agree that citizenship should be placed above everything else, even learning. [5]
- The ladies in the gallery were learning. [5]
- The priest, in the course of time, taught me to read and write, and he and I were the only persons in the village who possessed this learning. [5]
Short sentences using learning
- I'm learning much, my friend. [13]
- Affectations of scholarly learning. [5]
- And your learning? [10]
Sentences containing learning two or more times
- He had that sagacity without which learning is a mere incumbrance, and he had also a fair share of that learning without which sagacity is like a traveller with a good horse, but who cannot read the directions on the guideboards. [6]
- What you needed, I reckon, was less book learning and more bread-and-butter learning. [5]
- He appreciated its full meaning-recognition by the world's foremost institution of learning of the achievements of one who had no learning of the institutionary kind. [5]
- He has never attended any but a parish school, and still has learning to astonish Mr. Walpole, learning which he got under vast difficulties. [9]
More example sentences with the word learning in them
- But, still, the works which his great and untiring hand had already thoroughly finished will remain to attest his learning and genius, --a precious and perpetual possession for his country. [6]
- Not a single word unconnected with his trade, the weather, or an accident, had ever reached the friends' ears from Chello's thick lips, and this circumstance seemed to warrant Hermon in the expectation of learning from him the pure, unadulterated truth. [10]
- The performance opened with a tremendous prelude on the piano by Herr Bloomgarten, who had been Liszt's favorite pupil; indeed, it was whispered that Liszt had said that, old as he was, he never heard Bloomgarten without learning something. [4]
- These several discourses were carefully edited by William Symonds, a doctor of divinity and a man of learning and repute, evidently at the request of Smith. [4]
- From Switzerland I went to a foggy place called London, and thence I crossed the ocean to the solemn forests of the north of Canada, where I was many years, learning the characters of these gentlemen who are looking in upon us. [9]
- In England as well as in France, as we have said, it was the period of the classic revival; but in England the energetic reality of the time was strong enough to break the classic fetters, and to use classic learning for modern purposes. [4]
- And how can we remain the Sages and continue to develop and absorb all learning within the shelter of our temples, not only without endangering the weak, but for their benefit? [10]
- There is one way of learning it,--making love to her. [6]
- Infant as I was, I presumed to grapple with masses of learning almost beyond the strength of the giants of history. [6]
- The Acadia College was pointed out to us at Wolfville by a person who said that it is a feeble institution, a remark we were sorry to hear of a place described as "one of the foremost seats of learning in the Province. [4]
- He at least was learning the world, the good and the bad of it, as must happen to every one who accomplishes anything in it. [5]
- But when I was learning how to use the bayonet from a British sergeant in Picardy I met an English manufacturer from Northumberland. [9]
- Just as one was learning his trade, or perhaps had acquired it, and was ready to earn his living and begin to make a home for his wife, he must pass the three best years of his life in the army. [4]
- In half-an-hour he was at work, smiling and perspiring, and quickly learning the craft. [11]
- His learning was very various, and of course mixed up, useful and useless, new and ancient, dogmatic and rational,--like his library, in short; for a library gathered like his is a looking-glass in which the owner's mind is reflected. [6]
- He had acquired various branches of learning while sharing the studies of his foster-brother, the eldest son of the old Knight Schorlin, who was then living, and therefore, when scarcely twenty, was appointed schoolmaster at Stansstadt. [10]
- What is the value of this vast accumulation of higher learning, what is its point of contact with the mass of humanity, that toils and eats and sleeps and reproduces itself and dies, generation after generation, in an unvarying round, on an unvarying level? [4]
- I spent my valuable youth learning Greek and Latin, and I can't speak or read either of them. [9]
- As it was vacation in these institutions of learning, the travelers did not see any of the vines that traditionally cling to the oak. [4]
- Ebers was born under a lucky star, and the pictures of his early home life, his restless student days at that romantic old seat of learning, Gottingen, are bright, vivacious, and full of colour. [10]
- Janet possessed all unconsciously the New England reverence for learning, she was stirred by the sight of this distinguished-looking person who sat on the painted stage, fingering his glasses and talking to Antonelli. [9]
- I made but two brief visits to the British Museum, and I can easily instruct my reader so that he will have no difficulty, if he will follow my teaching, in learning how not to see it. [6]
- The mind not trained for that work is no more competent to do it than are lawyers and farmers competent to make successful clothes without learning the tailor's trade. [5]
- The rapid movement to which the philologer was prompted on my account will prolong his existence; he bristles with learning at the tip of every hair, and he sits still more than is good for him. [10]
- It earned sorrow to the breast of every apostle of learning there, for none could deny that this was a formidable criticism. [5]
- Ludo was learning to play on the piano, but I had chosen another instrument. [10]
- I should like to have seen it in that year when Thales was learning astronomy in Memphis, and Necho was organizing his campaign against Carchemish. [4]
- Instead of taking to classical learning like her father, or sliding quietly into household duties like her mother, she broke out early in efforts that pointed in the direction of Art. [6]
- I will keep this diligently in my remembrance, that this day's lesson be not lost upon me, and my people suffer thereby; for learning softeneth the heart and breedeth gentleness and charity. [5]
- It's a pity they couldn't do the acquiring, and let out the use of their learning to a few bright Americans. [8]
- You see what these priests say under oath--picked men, men chosen for their places in that terrible court on account of their learning, their experience, their keen and practised intellects, and their strong bias against the prisoner. [5]
- His contributions to the world's list of great names in literature, science, art, music, finance, medicine, and abstruse learning are also away out of proportion to the weakness of his numbers. [5]
- They belong to the universities of learning, and today they have no more ecclesiastic meaning than do the gorgeous robes of the Oxford chancellor and vice-chancellor and the scarlet hood. [4]
- Then, learning that the Times was paying Harte $100 a column for stories, he concluded to write some for the same price. [5]
- Rowena-Ivanhoe College is the selectest and most aristocratic seat of learning for young ladies in our country. [5]
- As manifested in the plays, this legal knowledge and learning had therefore a special character which places it on a wholly different footing from the rest of the multifarious knowledge which is exhibited in page after page of the plays. [5]
- They have been the most learned men the country had to show, when learning was a scarce commodity. [6]
- He was learning the flavor of real success and exulting in it. [5]
- In dealing with the cases of our complex life, there is no accomplishment, no learning in science, art, or literature, that the successful practitioner will not find it very advantageous to possess. [4]
- There is in the cap and gown a subtle suggestion of the union of learning with womanly charm that is very captivating to the imagination. [4]
- Persevere in learning the beautiful language of my forefathers. [10]
- And on learning that tomorrow they were to attack the enemy, and hearing from the highest quarters a confirmation of what they wanted to believe, the exhausted, wavering men felt comforted and inspirited. [2]
- We were learning that there was something infinitely more sacred than property . [9]
- It seems probable that the genial companionship of Agassiz, who united with his scientific genius, learning, and renown, most delightful social qualities, gave him a kinder feeling to men of science and their pursuits than he had entertained before that great master came among us. [6]
- It is said that the first thing an Islander learns is how to swim; learning to walk being a matter of smaller consequence, comes afterward. [5]
- We are learning that the chemistry of the body must be studied, not simply by its ingesta and egesta, but that there is a long intermediate series of changes which must be investigated in their own light, under their own special conditions. [3]
- His nephew at that stepped in, and, with a little disdainful laugh at me, made some galling gibe at my 'distinguished learning. [11]
- But, on learning that she was to be placed under Paula's care, he seemed startled, and gazed at the floor in such sullen gloom that the other easily guessed what was going on in his mind. [10]
- In the summer, that season of desolation for Honora, when George Hanbury and Algernon Cartwright and other young gentlemen were at the seashore learning to sail boats and to play tennis, Peter Erwin came to his own. [9]
- It was evident that Kutuzov despised cleverness and learning and even the patriotic feeling shown by Denisov, but despised them not because of his own intellect, feelings, or knowledge--he did not try to display any of these--but because of something else. [2]
- He, after learning that I had lived at Springfield, asked if I was acquainted with you. [7]
- She was learning that emotion is never simple. [9]
- He had said that "faith was knowledge of divine things through revelation, but that learning must give the proof thereof"; and this speech led many men of high attainments to study the new doctrines. [10]
- I am most thankful if my labors have seemed to conduct to the preservation of those institutions, under which alone we can expect good government and in its train sound learning, and the progress of the liberal arts. [7]
- That was more than wealth or learning, and as he spoke to the old Seigneur going in to Mass, he still thought so, for the Seigneur's big house and the servants and the great gardens had no charm for him. [11]
- No one can talk the quartz dialect correctly without learning it with pick and shovel and drill and fuse. [5]
- One is forced, step by step, to get experience in the world; but the learning is so disagreeable. [14]
- While Miss Thorn spent the time profitably in learning how to conn a yacht. [9]
- When Apollodorus ceased speaking, Verus offered Simeon Ben Jochai his hand, saying: "I am rejoiced to have met a man of your learning and distinction. [10]
- And doesn't he sometimes wonder whether he has gained most or lost most by learning his trade? [5]
- She has seemed so fond of dress lately, and once she spoke of learning--yes, Mr. Bradshaw, of learning to--dance! [6]
- Ponder thereon, ye small antiquaries who make barn-door-fowl flights of learning in "Notes and Queries! [6]
- They must be, since it was a seat of learning. [9]
- I know a sight more than I did twenty-seven years ago, and I enjoy learning, all the time, but I don't seem to get any older. [5]
- But even learning, she was discovering, could be amazingly simple. [9]
- But someday I shall have finished learning, and then I will do something. [2]
- The house of Serapis was a whole world in little, and centuries had enriched it with wealth, beauty, and the noblest treasures of art and learning. [10]
- To be a selfish miner of learning, for self-gratification only, is no nobler in reality than to be a miser of money. [4]
- Even the Arabs, seeing the strong man shaken with sobs and learning the cause of his grief, respectfully withdrew; for the anguish of a son at the loss of his mother was sacred in their eyes. [10]
- Near to these schools of learning there stood also a school of art, in which instruction was given to students who desired to devote themselves to architecture, sculpture, or painting; in these also the learner might choose his master. [10]
- And strange to say, Mr. Brice was learning. [9]
- He had also remembered the love of better days, and when Barbara insisted upon learning what he had said of her, Wolf, who had heard it from Don Luis, did not withhold it. [10]
- History is the record of the rise of splendid civilizations, many of which have flowered into the most glorious products of learning and of art, and have left monuments of the proudest material achievements. [4]
- Kunz likewise had quitted school, and he could not complain that learning weighed too heavily on his light heart and merry spirit. [10]
- He brought the proprietor, an obsequious little German who, on learning my name, repeated it in every sentence. [9]
- After learning what progress I had made by my own industry, he told me what to do next, and lastly promised to come again. [10]
- With such a prize in prospect we must no more fear a little humiliation than a man who is learning to ride fears a fall from his horse. [10]
- Anna, with no previous practise in oratory, had suddenly developed the gift of making speeches, the more effective with her fellow workers because unstudied, because they flowed directly out of an experience she was learning to interpret and universalize. [9]
- They travel from place to place, visiting literary assemblages, geographical societies, and seats of learning, and springing sudden bets that these people do not know these things. [5]
- The learning, the personal character, the sacredness of their office, tended, to give the New England clergy of past generations a kind of aristocratic dignity, a personal grandeur, much more felt in the days when class distinctions were recognized less unwillingly than at present. [6]
- Of course the people in the village could never be contented without learning everything there was to be learned about their visitor. [6]
- Cynthia did not pause to philosophize: she was learning to accept the world as it was, and hurried swiftly on to the little schoolhouse. [9]
- Is it in our modern air, that discontent, that desire, that thrusting forth toward a new light --something as yet unformulated, but which we all feel, even at small institutions of learning like Silliston? [9]
- One cannot spend one's time talking and wandering in the woods and teaching and learning. [11]
- The other day one of the gentlemen from Georgia [Mr. Iverson], an eloquent man, and a man of learning, so far as I can judge, not being learned myself, came down upon us astonishingly. [7]
- Major Lackland had once been a man of note in the State--a man of extraordinary natural ability and as extraordinary learning. [5]
- But she went on improving in personal appearance and manner and in learning the English language. [11]
- I never thought of this man again until I was overwhelmed the next day by learning what a shameful use he had made of the confidence I had reposed in him and the money I had entrusted to his care. [5]
- Andrew Carnegie, learning of this custom, made it his business to supply Scotch of his own special importation. [5]
- And the sons of these men who had passed through no school were already well-fitted and invited to give new splendor to cities in their decline, and new life to the learning of the countries they had subdued. [10]
- By the shores of the Tiber you love many things better than learning. [10]
- Joseph Mecklin, Speaker of the House, who unbent in the most flattering way on learning my identity. [9]
- But the idea of learning the customs of the whole appalling expanse of heaven--O man, how insanely you talk! [5]
- The exiled sons of learning settled in various cities on the shores of the Mediterranean, and thus contributed not a little to the diffusion of the intellectual results of the labors in the Museum. [10]
- Several distinguished men of learning had been permitted to see portions of that extraordinary book, and they spoke with the greatest admiration of his genius. [5]
- Even the seats of learning and the schools of science had to be closed against this tremendous antagonist. [5]
- It is matter of experience that wealth and learning and power are as likely to bring unhappiness as happiness, and yet this constant lesson of experience makes not the least impression upon human conduct. [4]
- The whole art of cultivation consists in learning the proper food and conditions of plants, and supplying them. [3]
- The exalted character of Berkeley is thus drawn by Sir James Mackintosh: Ancient learning, exact science, polished society, modern literature, and the fine arts, contributed to adorn and enrich the mind of this accomplished man. [6]
- Alexandria, the focus of all the learning of the East and the West, had seen other festivals than this riotous banquet. [10]
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