His acquirements were already far beyond the simple elements of reading, writing, and ciphering.
It required but a few weeks to demonstrate that however high were Halleck's professional acquirements in other respects, he was totally unfit for a commander in the field.
After the death of Judge Taney in October, Mr. Blair for a while indulged the hope that he might be appointed chief justice, a position for which his natural abilities and legal acquirements eminently fitted him.
Besides this, she had a disposition free from all affectation and display of pedantry--blemishes which such acquirements usually breed in women.
But for her to become distinguished for her scientificacquirements was almost tantamount to defying public opinion.
There are gentlemen here whoseacquirements go far beyond mine.
Nothing less than this assemblage of acquirements (says Sokrates) will suffice to constitute a real artist, either in speaking or writing.
The energy, however, with which they strove for the acquirements of wealth, moral enjoyment, and the comforts as well as the liberties of the world, was scarcely inferior to that with which they devoted themselves to Heaven.
It is not only the fortunes of men which are equal in America; even their acquirements partake in some degree of the same uniformity.
It may be added, that his acquirements were of a very superior order.
In 1806, having completed his studies, he commenced practice at the bar, with talents and acquirementswhich bade fair to introduce him to a very lucrative business.
As to his body there can be no dispute, but examine even the acquirements of his mind, you will find them all contribute in their order towards furnishing out an exact dress.
When, by these and the like performances, they were grown sufficiently replete, they would immediately depart, and disembogue for the public good a plentiful share of their acquirements into their disciples' chaps.
Now what a figure would all theseacquirements amount to if the owner were sent into the City among his brethren!
Now, by what process was this youth enabled to make such acquirements in godliness as that prayer betokens?
Acquirements may be extensive; but they are only like gaudy trappings on a hearse, or music in a dying man's chamber, unless truth in the heart become holiness in the life.
His great acquirements and pleasant manners made him a favourite with all classes of the people, and caused him to be regarded as a genuine acquisition to the district in which he resided.
At his court, habits of study were an unfailing recommendation; mentalacquirements were duly honoured, and men of letters were sure of finding a generous and enlightened friend.
Upon the last of these sisters we must dwell in some detail, for she was conspicuous among the ladies of high birth, whose acquirements gave illustration to her age.
She, however, had so fully identified herself with her brother’s astronomical labours, that she only regarded her musical acquirements as a means of setting him free to devote himself more completely to the real object of his life.
There are numerous cases which can not be explained as transmissions of somatic acquirements even if this transmission could be established in certain cases.
Perhaps in the realm of disease more than in any other has an interest in the inheritance of somatic acquirements been manifested.
In fact, if such acquirements were inherited then we should soon have a race which would naturally, spontaneously as it were, do what its ancestors did with effort.
We are particularly cautious about admitting any gentleman whoseacquirements are not of the highest order.
All this time the Pet was laying about him in the most determined manner; and, to judge from his professional observations, his scientific acquirements were in full play.
On the whole, this list of acquirementsgave him a sort of repulsion toward poor Tom.
This luminous idea was a great addition to his historical acquirements during this half-year, which were otherwise confined to an epitomized history of the Jews.
The most eminent professors of the new learning were men, whose position made it necessary that their acquirements should be made a means of gaining a livelihood.
And these views of classic learning lead us to attribute almost instinctively, as it were, a high degree of solidity, grave scholastic laboriousness, and respectability to the acquirements of those who possess it.
Old Calcagnini found the "prattling infant muse" to whom he had sent a kiss in her exile, grown into a lovely girl, on the eve of blossoming into womanhood, with talents and acquirements sufficient to make the reputation of a mature scholar.
Among these, one of the most notable for his varied acquirements as well as for the closeness of his intimacy with Morato, was Celio Calcagnini, who occupied the chair of "belle lettere" in the university of his native city.
Nor shall we think this strange when we consider what great and various talents and acquirements met in the little fraternity.
Her mental training, obviously, was small, and of facts that men call knowledge she had but few; but in place of these recent and artificial acquirements she possessed a natural and spontaneous intelligence that was swiftly understanding.
These were to him but the external equipment of a passing To-day, whereas he looked for the innate acquirements due to real experience--age in the soul itself.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "acquirements" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
