Every new acquirement is something added to a solid capital. From Wordnik.com. [The Mother's Book] Reference
He seems to have disdained the acquirement of the English language. From Wordnik.com. [Se-quo-yah; from Harper's New Monthly, V.41] Reference
This adaptation is the natural acquirement of many years 'evolution. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Second Annual Meeting Ithaca, New York, December 14 and 15, 1911] Reference
The long disquisition on the acquirement of speech is supplemented by. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 358, November 11, 1882] Reference
His after life does not seem to have been favorable to its acquirement. From Wordnik.com. [Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac] Reference
Yet those who give up their lives to the acquirement of these things are the greatest failures in life. From Wordnik.com. [Within You is the Power] Reference
Brieux or the craze for Algerian landscapes in France after the acquirement of the colony, are examples. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of Aesthetics] Reference
Let us concede to this class our respect, as humility is the only solid basis for any human acquirement. From Wordnik.com. [Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
They are bound up with the acquirement of those personal habits of health and propriety before indicated. From Wordnik.com. [The Family and it's Members] Reference
If I here repeat that frequent practice on the part of the student is necessary for the correct acquirement of. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Stage Dancing The Story of a Beautiful and Profitable Profession] Reference
Considered in its broader sense, education is quite as much a matter of association as of scholarly acquirement. From Wordnik.com. [Albert Gallatin American Statesmen Series, Vol. XIII] Reference
Reduction is also made, from eleven to thirteen years and a half, for various degrees of educational acquirement. From Wordnik.com. [Afghanistan and the Anglo-Russian Dispute] Reference
It shall enjoy the good which it hath acquired, and shall bear the evil for the acquirement of which it laboured. From Wordnik.com. [The Faith of Islam] Reference
To the acquirement of a knowledge of legal matters, therefore, he bent all the energies of a well disciplined mind. From Wordnik.com. [Sanders' Union Fourth Reader] Reference
"I shall be glad if you will," said Grace, whom nothing could delight more than the acquirement of fresh knowledge. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands] Reference
Swimming employs the muscles of the whole body, and is a valuable acquirement, as it may be the means of saving life. From Wordnik.com. [Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics] Reference
Other laws have followed, each designed to encourage the acquirement and use of land in limited individual quantities. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
Psychology will be based on a new foundation, that of the necessary acquirement of each mental power and capacity by gradation. From Wordnik.com. [On the Genesis of Species] Reference
No doubt some small portion of it is the result of acquirement, for life can hardly fail to teach us all something of this sort; still. From Wordnik.com. [The Darrow Enigma] Reference
This element of physical capacity is as necessary to a useful and energetic life, as are mental endowment and intellectual acquirement. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Physiology] Reference
It is a scale of increasing physiological differentiation, and the stages of it are marked by the acquirement of this or that new organ. From Wordnik.com. [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference
It is clear that Henry Fielding flung his characteristic energies zealously into the acquirement of the classical learning proffered him at. From Wordnik.com. [Henry Fielding: a Memoir] Reference
Although these were grave blunders in geography and in navigation, the discoveries really made in the rich tropical zones, the acquirement of. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882] Reference
Still he held off, remembering the warnings of attempting work without tools -- of production before the acquirement of sufficient technique. From Wordnik.com. [The Genius] Reference
The daily repetition of these suggestions will contribute much to the actual acquirement of the very traits of character that are thus suggested. From Wordnik.com. [The Mother and Her Child] Reference
He was the friend of Mirabeau, the disciple and translator of Bentham, -- a man of elegant acquirement, but, in the judgment of Gallatin, "without original genius.". From Wordnik.com. [Albert Gallatin American Statesmen Series, Vol. XIII] Reference
Thus, he will find what thing it is that he at any time immediately requires to know, and he will make this pressing need the object of his next acquirement in books. From Wordnik.com. [The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886] Reference
We can interpret only by what our minds already contain, so that the earlier years of one's reading are largely devoted to the acquirement of material for future use. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide] Reference
Up to a certain point the acquirement of knowledge is a task, an effort, a seeming self-sacrifice; beyond that point it is a labor of love, a pleasure, a consecration. From Wordnik.com. [The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference
He thus encouraged the learning of Science and the consequent acquirement of inventive capacity which is biologically as essential for human progress as co-operation and loyalty. From Wordnik.com. [Notes on Islam] Reference
I have known him many years, and however he may dote on his children, or value their happiness, he will not hesitate to sacrifice his other feelings to the acquirement of riches. From Wordnik.com. [Alonzo and Melissa The Unfeeling Father] Reference
Dutch Government placed the liberated population under police surveillance, compelling each individual to prove honest acquirement of the slender means necessary for subsistence. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Malay Archipelago] Reference
We say apparent, for we are persuaded Sir Joshua never worked without real care and forethought; and that his apparent slovenliness was a purpose, and a long studied acquirement. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843] Reference
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