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Example sentences for "great learning"

  • Thou shouldst invite only such among them as are devoted to the duties laid down for their order, and as are born in good families, and as are possessed of great learning.

  • Even so, one may reap great merit by making gifts unto a Brahmana possessed of great learning.

  • The Truth of it is, a Man had better be a Gally-Slave than a Wit, were one to gain that Title by those Elaborate Trifles which have been the Inventions of such Authors as were often Masters of great Learning but no Genius.

  • Those wicked men, though possessed of great learning, travel all over the earth, making speeches in assemblies, and deprecating the true doctrine about emancipation.

  • Similarly, a person of low descent, even if possessed of great learning, always errs, like a blind man without a guide, in all acts requiring dexterity and foresight.

  • Dear Madam, You do not approve of great learning in women.

  • I own I do not approve of great learning in women.

  • But after all, I contend not that women should be taught either of these languages; nor do I hold languages to be great learning, as I hinted in my former.

  • That he was a man of great learning is undoubted; and that he left his spirit behind him in Iona will be seen from what follows.

  • It is evident that he must have been a man of great learning, especially in native literature, as he is described as a saoi, or doctor, in the bearla-feine.

  • He performed many wondrous miracles; and, moreover, gave his visitors such heavenly instruction as showed that he was a man not only of great holiness but of great learning.

  • Hitherto he seems to have been a man of studious habits, as he certainly was a man of great learning.

  • He was chaplain to Charles II, a man of great learning, and the intimate friend of the first men of the kingdom.

  • He was a man of great learning, and was the first king who had the public documents written in Spanish, which he did with a view to polish and enrich the language.

  • This Ebener, descended from the noble family of that name at Nuremberg, was a man of great learning, and an able statesman.

  • He was a man of great learning and of scholarly tastes.

  • Nor did I ever ask; though, as I have said, [7] I had converse for many years with men of great learning.

  • A Dominican friar, of great learning, showed it to me very plainly.

  • Wodrow describes him as "a nobleman of excellent endowments, great learning, singular wisdom and conduct, bewitching eloquence, joined with remarkable resolution and courage.

  • James Sibbald, said to have been a man of great learning, was minister in one of the churches of New Aberdeen.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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