11496 examples of teaching in sentences

Morality had always been for them a matter of family custom, parental teaching of the rules of decorum, legal doctrine regarding the universality of aequitas, and, more than they knew, of puritanic instincts inherited from a well-sifted stock.

His creed fortunately fell in with the tendencies of the time, and whether this teaching be called a cause, or whether the popularity of it be an effect of pre-existing causes, we know that this man came to represent many of the ideals of the school.

Yet he seemed to-day to be impatient under the teaching, and more than once she felt that he was on the point of interrupting the lesson to some end of his own.

Do I forget all these things you've been teaching me, and settle down with one wife,or do I come into the Kingdom and lash the cinches of my glory good and plenty by marrying whenever I get time to build a new end on the house, like old man Wright does?" She was silent.

" This teaching of renunciation is no less distinctly presented in The Mill on the Floss, the chief ethical aim of which is its inculcation.

She know little of saints and martyrs, and had gathered, as a general result of her teaching, that they were a temporary provision against the spread of Catholicism, and had all died at Smithfield.

Her books are saturated with moral teaching, and her own life was ordered after a lofty ethical standard.

She was one of the most ardent of modern preachers, her books are crowded with teaching of the most positive character.

No one who rightly weighs the value of her books, and fairly estimates the nature of her teaching, can regret that she had so keen a love of ethical instruction.

The vigor, enthusiasm and originality of her teaching compensate for many faults.

This teaching is often found in her pages, and in connection with the assertion of the relativity of morals.

All experience is moral, she would have us believe, and capable of teaching man the higher life.

This teaching is very definite and emphatic in her pages, often rising into a lofty eloquence and a rich poetic diction, as her mind is wrought upon by the greatness and the impressiveness of the moral lessons of life.

This is the teaching of the first chapter of Felix Holt.

The same teaching is to be found in the motto of Daniel Deronda, where we are bidden to fear the evil tendencies of our own souls. Let thy chief terror be of thine own soul: There, 'mid the throng of hurrying desires That trample o'er the dead to seize their spoil, Lurks vengeance, footless, irresistible As exhalations laden with slow death,

With all its limitations and defects, George Eliot's teaching concerning the moral effects of conduct is wholesome and healthy.

Two of her most characteristic books are written to inculcate this teaching.

And this was not merely the teaching of her books, it was the practice of her life.

Even more important is her teaching of the stern nature of retribution, that every thought, word and deed has its effect.

There is need of such teaching, and it can be appropriated into the thought and life of the time with great promise of good.

Her teaching too often takes the tone of repression; it is hard and exacting.

There is less of distinct teaching in the Scenes of Clerical Life than in George Eliot's later novels.

It would be difficult to discover any special teaching in "Mr. Gilfil's Love Story;" and this is perhaps the only production of George Eliot's pen which has not some distinct object beyond the telling of the story itself.

This teaching is fully depicted in the chapter headed "The Hidden Dread," and in which Hetty's flight is described.

Along with this teaching goes the cognate one, that feeling is the true test of the religious life.

11496 examples of  teaching  in sentences