Which preposition to use with lectures

on Occurrences 617%

Perhaps during his visit to Nineveh he entertained the Ninnies with a learned lecture on the subject, but if so, it has not turned up to reward the research of modern Archaeologists.

in Occurrences 156%

I didn't see much of Buntline that evening, as he hurried off to deliver a temperance lecture in one of the public halls.

on Occurrences 114%

Dr. Clutterbuck's Lectures on the Diseases of the Nervous System.

at Occurrences 106%

"Lecture at Essex Hall, November 13, 1914, by R.W. Seton Watson.

to Occurrences 91%

" "Yes, my boy, so I am," said he; "I was to deliver a temperance lecture to-night, but no lectures for me when there is a prospect for a fight.

of Occurrences 88%

In my lectures of last year (at University College) I showed that, in the struggle for the possession of North America, where the victory of England was so decisive as to settle the question for all coming time, the causes of the French failure are very plainly to be seen.

for Occurrences 63%

" "Yes, my boy, so I am," said he; "I was to deliver a temperance lecture to-night, but no lectures for me when there is a prospect for a fight.

by Occurrences 51%

The interest of Americans in this lecture by Professor | | HUXLEY can be judged from the great demand for it; the fifth | | thousand is now being sold.

before Occurrences 34%

In that year he had the satisfaction of lecturing before British audiences on the results of his travels, and as it was the first time he had visited the land of his fathers the pleasure of seeing the old country under circumstances so honourable to himself was doubly keen.

from Occurrences 28%

I don't hold with being bullied and lectured from the stage, do you, Mavis?

with Occurrences 17%

During the first term of his university life he attended lectures with tolerable regularity, but soon discovering that he had little taste for pursuing the exact sciences, he gave up his attendance at that course and announced that he proposed to devote himself exclusively to Greek and Roman Literature.

in Occurrences 16%

This Committee was organized in 1892, for the purpose of instituting "popular courses in the History of Religions, somewhat after the style of the Hibbert Lectures in England, to be delivered by the best scholars of Europe and this country, in various cities, such as Baltimore, Boston, Brooklyn, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia.

about Occurrences 11%

Then the front parlor was darkened and, after the consequent tittering among the younger set had died away, Eustace threw his pictures upon a hanging sheet and delivered his agreeable lecture about them, beginning with the exciting trip from Jaffa to Jerusalem.

of Occurrences 10%

Away, Girls, away, and steal the Bride to Bed; they have a deal to do upon their Wedding-nights; and what with the tedious Ceremonies of dressing and undressing, the smutty Lectures of the Women, by way of Instruction, and the little Stratagems of the young Wenches odds bobs, a Man's cozen'd of half his Night: Come, Gentlemen, one Bottle, and thenwe'll toss the Stocking.

as Occurrences 10%

For I have not been one of those fortunate persons who are able to regard a popular lecture as a mere hors d'oeuvre, unworthy of being ranked among the serious efforts of a philosopher; and who keep their fame as scientific hierophants unsullied by attemptsat least of the successful sortto be understanded of the people.

during Occurrences 6%

He was even dragged to lyceum lectures during the two weeks he remained in Boston.

at Occurrences 6%

In January he prepared a short Paper illustrated with diagrams to exhibit the Interference of Solar Light, as used by him in his Lectures at Cambridge in 1836: but it does not appear to have been published.

without Occurrences 5%

We gave him several severe lectures without much effect; at length we came to a small inn on the road, where he made a stand, and said he could go no further without two more horses, which we really believed was true, for if he had not got them we must have stuck in the sand.

to Occurrences 5%

There are three little books which, in popular favor, stand first on the list of Ruskin's numerous works,Ethics-of-the-Dust, a series of Lectures to Little Housewives, which appeals most to women; Crown of Wild Olive, three lectures on Work, Traffic, and War, which appeals to thoughtful men facing the problems of work and duty; and Sesame and Lilies, which appeals to men and women alike.

FOR Occurrences 5%

LECTURES FOR THE TIMES: AN EXPOSITION OF TRIDENTE AND TRACTARIAN POPERY.

by Occurrences 3%

Among the replies to the views of Collins we may mention the calmly objective Boyle Lectures by Ibbot, and the sharp and witty letter of Richard Bentley, the philologist.

than Occurrences 3%

For the next thirty or forty years an exceptional class of men will play a leading part in British affairs, men who will have learnt more from reality and less from lectures than either the generations that preceded or the generations that will follow them.

over Occurrences 2%

I had never before seen a stump, but remembered Dr. Jackson's lecture over the watermellon at desert, on amputation, for the benefit of Charles Sumner; and electricity never brought light quicker than there came to me the memory of all he had said about the proper arrangement of the muscles over the end of the bone; and added to this, came a perfect knowledge of the relations of those mangled muscles to the general form of the body.

against Occurrences 2%

goes on lecturing against W.W., and making copious use of quotations from said W.W. to give a zest to said lectures.

through Occurrences 2%

He lectured through the Western States and Territories, for already his fame as a lecturer was spreading.

Which preposition to use with  lectures