Johnson and Chatham resemble the chemical bodies which acquire entirely new properties when raised beyond a certain degree of temperature.
It is when we turn from Macaulay's personal character to attempt an estimate of his literary position, that these faults acquire more importance.
We acquire new ideas every time we open our eyes; we are ever attracted by something we have not observed before; every moment adds to our knowledge.
I expect you to acquiresome practice at printing, and ornamental writing, in the Bank.
It was slightly pretty, perhaps a little tawdry, yet not sufficiently worn to acquirethat look as yet.
Animals naturally susceptible may acquire immunity, on the one hand by successfully passing through an attack of the disease, or, on the other hand, by various methods of inoculation.
He spared no pains toacquire true style, frequently rewriting his chapters, and sometimes testing passages of philosophy and description in eight different forms.
Consisting of a number of isolated districts lying on either bank of the upper Rhine, it was the work of Charles Frederick to acquire the intervening stretches of land, and so to give territorial unity to his country.
And we have primers for science, for history, so that we can acquire all the information we need in this world in a few hasty bites.
Seek ever to acquire a facility in expression which will impose no handicap to you at any step in your sales procedure.
All colonists accustomed to observe the progress of settlement, and the local advantages which hasten improvement, acquire a peculiar sagacity in such matters.
All that an emigrant has to do to acquire the reputation of having money, is to seem quite easy, and free from care or anxiety for the future, and to maintain a certain degree of reserve in talking of his private affairs.
We do not try to force any of these new ideas upon him but simply wait patiently until he expresses a desire to acquire some new knowledge, then we aid him and guide his efforts.
An innocent girl may thus carelessly acquire the disease.
The Massachusetts Historical Society was formed, and has continued slowly to acquire wealth and influence, having greatly extended its usefulness within the past ten years.
In the early inception of the Church, God commanded His people to study and learn from the best of books, to acquire an understanding of the laws of God and the governments of men, to become acquainted with the heavens and the earth.
In order to insure the rise of ideas in an orderly manner, pay attention to the manner in which you acquire them.
Naturally such a property is very important in education, for had we not the power to receive impressions from the outside world we should not be able to acquire knowledge.
Thus you will acquire the stuff out of which images are made and will stock your mind with a number of images.
To acquirean education you must establish and maintain not a passive attitude but an active attitude.
And it is such an aid in the performance of work that we should seek earnestly toacquire it in connection with any work we have to do.
We have frequently to stop our constructive work for a little in order to acquire some new facts that we find to be necessary.
Thus we acquire a certain number of new facts while we are reasoning about things, and while we are engaged in acquiring new matter we must use our reason at least to some small extent.
We acquire most of our interests in the course of our experience.
Students sometimes acquire the habit of reading single sentences at a time, then of writing them down, thinking that by making an exact copy of the book, they are playing safe.
Sometimes our main business seems to be to acquire knowledge; certain matters are placed before us in books or by our teachers, and we are required to master them, to make them part of our stock of knowledge.
Having constant occasion to recommend themselves and their goods, they acquire habits of the most obliging attention, and the most insinuating address.
It is not more than twenty or thirty years since a young man going from any part of Scotland to England, of purpose to carry the pack, was considered as going to lead the life and acquire the fortune of a gentleman.
But these all happened where there had been little or no previous effort to acquire the riches, and therefore such a consequence might the more naturally be expected, than in the case of the solitary miner.
Nor have the streams, from the shortness of their course, time to acquire that body of water necessary to confer upon them much majesty.
My first morning's work on the Blackmore case showed me that the same faculty is demanded in legal practice; and it also showed me that I had yet to acquire it.
And, with your previous training, you will soon acquirethe faculty.
It was without any of the spirit of martyrdom that cakes the nature of those women who have not been able to acquire the best sort of philosophy that she frankly made this very natural and easily fulfilled desire a favour.
Or you could call yourself a literary man and do nothing more than establish a sanctum-sanctorum in which to keep a neat pile of well-bound manuscript books and acquire a library.
Is he fit for the position, or, if not, can he acquire the fitness without detriment to the office?
The problem is to acquirethe frame of mind without waiting for circumstances.
The doubter may spend upon this question more time than it would take to acquire the needed facility and experience.
The insistent belief of the neurotic that he cannot acquire this habit is touched upon in the chapter on Worry and Obsession.
How shall we set to work to acquire a fad, without special opportunity or education, and with but little time at our disposal?
Epicurus realized that the apparent inability of the old to acquire new habits is due rather to lack of attention, and to indifference or preoccupation, than to lack of aptitude.
To reap the full advantage of the collection fads one should take pains to acquire a knowledge of the geography and history with which they are associated.
No one can acquire the habit of sleep who has not learned the habit of concentration, of devoting himself single-minded to the matter in hand.
By such an arrangement the old and powerful European monarchies would acquire the authority to interfere in the domestic affairs of the weaker powers.
They have neither the time nor opportunities for such pursuits, and if they can acquire a practical acquaintance with elementary tactics--the mere alphabet of the military art--it is as much as can reasonably be expected of them.
The canal company soon found it necessary toacquire a controlling interest in the Panama Railroad.
The treaty between the two countries further provides that the United States has the right to acquire by condemnation any property it may need for canal purposes in the cities of Panama and Colon.
Their situation, as jurors and representatives, enables them to acquire information and knowledge in the affairs and government of the society; and to come forward, in turn, as the sentinels and guardians of each other.
To crown the whole, it is scarce within the verge of possibility, that so numerous an assembly should acquire that secrecy, dispatch, and vigour, which are the test of excellence in the executive department.
The fortunes they acquire by personal exertion, energy, and activity, are a reproach by inference to that stagnant wealth which is the foundation of the State, and the admiration of the Government.
Put a paint-brush into the hands of a child, and he willacquire the practice of painting in no time.
Benefits so important as these, which nations cannot acquire alone, are well worth the temporary sacrifice of every liberty.
If big corporations, railroad monopolies, Weyerhaeuser timber syndicates, oil trusts, are to acquire the bulk of the land, it is either socialism or serfdom.
The leading motives perhaps were the desire first to acquire land in what they thought would prove a paradise and second to carry the American flag across the continent and secure ownership of the Pacific Coast for their country.
The interest of each member shall be equal to that of any other, and no member can acquire any interest which will entitle him to any greater voice, vote, authority or interest in the corporation than any other member.
They acquire that form and that inimitable brilliancy by progressive changes.
Separate an individual from society, and give him an island or a continent to possess, and he cannot acquire personal property.
Personal property is the effect of society; and it is as impossible for an individual to acquire personal property without the aid of society, as it is for him to make land originally.
In despotic governments wars are the effect of pride; but in those governments in which they become the means of taxation, they acquirethereby a more permanent promptitude.
The original value of the two articles in their proper countries was but two shillings; but by changing their places, they acquire a new idea of value, equal to double what they had first, and that increased value is equally divided.
To acquire a residence in these, he must undergo a local naturalisation by purchase, or he is forbidden or expelled the place.
They acquire the habit without being aware of the cause.
As we have not at one instant renounced all our errors, we cannot at one stroke acquire knowledge of all our rights.
It is by imitation far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus, we acquire not only more effectually, but more pleasantly.
I admit that people frequentlyacquire in such confederacies a narrow, bigoted, and prescriptive spirit; that they are apt to sink the idea of the general good in this circumscribed and partial interest.
