" Kung-sun Ch'an of Wei inquired of Tsz-kung how Confucius acquired his learning.

This last editor has enriched his edition of these two dialogues with very valuable and copious philological and critical notes, in which he has displayed no less learning than judgment, no less acuteness than taste.

" At the same time it is to be feared that none of his companions really appreciated the pedagogue's learning.

However, most things require learning, even advocacy and acting.

Those who accuse him to have wanted learning; give him the greater commendation.

He wrote Latin verses from time to time, and published a set in his old age, which he called 'Senilia;' in which he shews so little learning or taste in writing, as to make Carteret a dactyl.

I don't know where she got her learning.

This, however, is a very pardonable sort of coxcombry; and tho' it appear sometimes pedantic, and occasionally laughable, yet it tends to encourage learning and science, and compels the young men to read in order to shine and captivate the fair.

Suitable situations were found for the adults, and the young ones were bound out apprentices to handicraft trades, and to receive school learning.]

They were a plain and simple people, who abhorred the vices of the patrician class at home; but they loved learning, and sought to extend knowledge, as the bulwark of free institutions.

Nor did he suffer the publick duties of this station to hinder him from promoting learning by labours of a different kind; for, besides many poems and orations, which he recited on different occasions, he wrote several prefaces to the works of others, and published many useful editions of the best Latin writers, with large collections of notes from various commentators.

His taking up the topick of their not having so much learning, was, though ingenious, yet a fallacy in logick.

"I knew a rich woman who wished to give aid to some girls' school, and she travelled in order to find that institution which gave the most solid learning with the least show.

Among other things of note, the exiles were recalled, who brought back with them the learning of the Continent and the theology of Geneva, and an intense hatred for all the old forms of superstition,images, crucifixes, lighted candles, Catholic vestments,and a supreme regard for the authority of the Scriptures, rather than the authority of the Church.

Let them possess at least so much learning as is to be acquired in the common schools of the country.

It took very little learning and no alchemy to foretell that the month of February and the neighborhood of Boston would give ice enough; and I told him that the ice-crop would be abundant; but I was honest enough to explain to him that my outlook into the future was no better than his.

He was a very learned man, and his Commentaries are among the most useful and valued of his writings, showing both learning and judgment; his exegetical works have scarcely been improved.

I sate me downe, Deuis'd a new Commission, wrote it faire, I once did hold it as our Statists doe, A basenesse to write faire; and laboured much How to forget that learning: but Sir now, It did me Yeomans seruice: wilt thou know

He was ignorant of letters, and despised all learning, that was not theological.

She was ever admiring her son's learning, and so stubborn was her faith in him that she was convinced that he would this time secure a good position in the capital.

The monks and friars opposed the new learning now extending from Italy to France, to Germany, and to England.

"I thank thee, most Reverend Father, for thy patient teaching," she said; "but I lack the learning to make it helpful.

The council shall compile a proper school book to teach them learning and piety.

If the method of learning by doing was the accepted aim of the teacher then it was not carried out, for this is learning and then doing, not learning for the purpose of doing, but doing for the purpose of testing the learning, which is quite another matter, and not a very natural procedure with young children.

Some whom fortune has made popular, have been greatly overrated, if learning and talent are to be taken into the account; since it is manifest, that with no extraordinary claims to either, they have taken the very foremost rank among grammarians, and thrown the learning and talents of others into the shade, or made them tributary to their own success and popularity.