Which preposition to use with learnt
I learnt from him that he was born and bred at Benares, in Hindostan; that he had been intended for the priesthood, and had been well instructed in the literature of the east.
The mother, looking on, learns of the ways of God with men.
Never intending to practise, I did not become very profoundly learned in the profession; still I became, to some extent, indoctrinated with its mysteries.
She came back to the present again on the instant and met her niece's eyes with a smile, but in the subtle realm of intuition we learn by lightning flashes, and Evadne needed no further telling to know that the saddest loneliness which can fall to the lot of a woman was the fate of her aunt.
I ain't a fine woman with the fine ideas you learn at college.
They meant that they wanted to learn about the Bible.
If it wasn't for my health, I reckon I might go in and try to learn to weave, myself.
" Again, "Students of old fixed their eyes upon themselves: now they learn with their eyes upon others.
At this point the Nursery School stage begins: the child is learning for himself his world by experience, and through play he chooses his raw material in an atmosphere of freedom.
the errors of the learned on Earth, and "the follies of the wise?" JOSEPH ATTERLEY.
Education is the taking to one's self, so far as one may in a lifetime, all that the race has learned through these six thousand years.
Several times, I have caught myself muttering prayerslittle things learnt as a child.
" Tsz-k'in put this query to his fellow disciple Tsz-kung: said he, "When our Master comes to this or that State, he learns without fail how it is being governed.
These things I learnt during my brief visit to the town a few days ago.
I doubted that he would not be willing to come down from his elevated state of philosophical dignity; from a superiority of wisdom among the wise, and of learning among the learned; and from flashing his wit upon minds bright enough to reflect it.
He owned, this morning, that one might have a greater aptitude to learn than another, and that we inherit dispositions from our parents[603].
In spite of the dark and the chill, however, your boy skates or slides on until he is called in by you, who, if you are an American mother, care a great deal more than he does for the bad marks which will stand on his week's report if those three lessons are not learned before bed-time.
Born and reared, then, amid boundless affluence, I learned under a venerable mistress whatever manners and refinements it beseems a demoiselle of high rank to know.
] Does this mean "Go on being hospitable, as you have been," or "Learn after this not to take liberties with other guests"?
Moreover I am not learned like Giles, nor ready of tongue, nor" "Art wondrous skilled in wood-lore, my Rogerkin!" quoth Giles.
To be told, by the father of whose dear existence one had only learned within the hour, that one was the child of a notorious thief and an adventuress ...
A lesson is never learnt till it is learnt over many times, and a spot is best understood by staying in it and mastering it.
Good for him, had he followed every lesson which he might have learnt out of that most noble of English books: but one lesson at least he learnt from it; and that was, to be chivalrous, tender, and courteous to all women, however old or ugly, simply because they were women.
I have thrown six years of hard work, sleepless nights, fame, and learning into the chasm which separates usand now we shall see!
" I was rejoiced to hear it, though I did not learn until long afterwards that it was by Colonel Washington's advice that this plan was adopted.