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Example sentences for "practical knowledge"

  • Success in them depends on a practical knowledge of the art, as well as a theoretical knowledge of the science.

  • It cannot be properly filled by persons whose time is engrossed by business of their own, by political partisans, or men who have no practical knowledge of mercantile affairs.

  • It was in vain I assured him that my practical knowledge of seamanship was limited, and what little I once knew I had forgotten during my residence in the West Indies.

  • The knowledge of singulars pertains to the perfection of the intellective soul, not in speculative knowledge, but in practical knowledge, which is imperfect without the knowledge of singulars, in which operations exist, as is said Ethic.

  • Hence the soul of Christ has a speculative knowledge of creation (for it knows the mode of God's creation), but it has no practical knowledge of this mode, since it has no knowledge operative of creation.

  • Therefore He has a practical knowledge of what He knows, i.

  • What but a diligent investigation of the cutlerian process could have prompted the illustration of practical knowledge of the Birmingham and Sheffield artificers contained in the following exquisitely explanatory line.

  • Now, reader, do you see the subtle use of practical knowledge?

  • And, furthermore, I challenge those who have indulged in such useless vagaries, to show by what process, with their own systems, they can communicate a practical knowledge of grammar.

  • On the other hand, if you proceed according to my instructions, you will be sure to acquire a practical knowledge of grammar in a short time.

  • Many officers repaired to private factories, and worked at the lathe, in stoke-hole and the engine-room, and thus acquired a practical knowledge of this department of their profession.

  • For staff and regimental officers the main requisite demanded seems to be a practical knowledge of trigonometry as required for surveying.

  • I strongly advocate the plan of every female having a practical knowledge of some occupation by which to earn a livelihood.

  • A practical knowledge of arithmetic is necessary for bookkeeping and selling goods--two of the most inviting openings now presented to women of ordinary intelligence.

  • The possession of health, happiness, and longevity requires not so much a general literary and scientific education, as a practical knowledge of one's own self.

  • What induced the sly, suspicious man to this extraordinary display of tenderness was undoubtedly my practical knowledge of Islamic lands and of Turkey in particular.

  • Elements of Practical Knowledge=; or, The Young Inquirer Answered.

  • This is an advantage, for it gives them a practical knowledge of the method.

  • A teacher is not really necessary, but will prove a help, provided he has a practical knowledge of the art.

  • The foregoing observations will serve to prove the insufficiency of a knowledge of this language, as professed or studied in Great Britain when unaccompanied with a practical knowledge.

  • Practical knowledge of all modern systems of library working, including book-binding, book-buying, charging and maintenance.

  • In Holland nurses are medically trained in a practical knowledge of contraceptive methods, and are thus enabled to enlighten the women of the community.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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