But I think we have yet to learn the meaning of ex Oriente lux.

What the Germans are not taught by the War they will have to learn in the more tedious and no less costly school of peace.

It may be said, and said truly, that our well-known laziness was one cause of our failing or neglecting to learn German.

From our history also we may learn that it does not relax our sinews to be told that our enemy has some good qualities.

Shakespeare tells us more about himself and his mind than we could learn even from those who knew him in his habit as he lived, if they were all alive and all talking.

To learn what he tells we have only to listen.

Every holiday fool in England, we learn from Trinculo in The Tempest, would give a piece of silver to see a strange fish, though no one will give a doit to relieve a lame beggar.

'Where the devil should he learn our language?' says the non-commissioned officer, when the monster speaks.

They did not learn what had happened until the ramparts had been laid in ruins, and the victors on each side on retiring to their own head-quarters encountered each other.

While I was practising myself in the Martial language my host turned our experimental conversations chiefly, if not exclusively, upon Terrestrial subjects; endeavouring to learn all that I could convey to him of the physical peculiarities of the Earth, of geology, geography, vegetation, animal life in all its forms, human existence, laws, manners, social and domestic order.

He'll learn something about the way to treat old friends.

If we are to work together harmoniously, Mr. Mussey, you must learn to have a little confidence in me.

Both men, he stated, were unfit for further duty that night, though neither (Lanyard was happy to learn) had suffered any permanent injury.

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If one is curious and careful, one may learn which of the Turkish statesmen are in Russian pay.

The disgruntled and disappointed Britons have comforted themselves with prophecyhow often have I heard them at it in the cosmopolitan cafes of Constantinople!the burden of their melancholy lay being that some day Turkey would learn who is her real friend.

Its practitioners really seem to think that they can terrorize and pinprick Parliament into giving it to them; and until they learn something of the people they are dealing with, their whole agitation, so far as the House of Commons is concerned, is simply and utterly damned.

During the first half of July, we began to learn where some of the money was supposed to come from, and we were just beginning to control the government expenditures after a fashion when, on July 18th, late at night, the telegraph brought the news that Muhammad Ali, the ex-Shah, had landed with a small force at Gumesh-Teppeh, a small port on the Caspian, very near the Russian frontier.

By observing the nature of the people's aspirations we learn the Will of Heaven (T'ien-ming).

I am very happy now, and it would break my heart to lose that happiness, or ever learn to be ashamed of home.

"I didn't tell her my plan; but I resigned my place, spent a week or more finding and fixing a little home for her out in the wholesome country, where she'd be safe from theatres and disreputable friends, and maybe learn to love me better when she saw how much she was to me.

He had spoken of a law wider than he thought in his fancy, that the angels might learn love for all by love for an individual.

Do we not all learn love so?

But between Saint Venus and Vieuxbois you may soon learn enough to make you a sadder man, if not a wiser one.' 'Why not a wiser one?

The Grammarian The best way to learn to write is to write.