Home
Idioms
Top 1000 Words
Top 5000 Words


Example sentences for "classical learning"

  • The Portuguese were therefore prepared to take advantage of the stores of knowledge revealed by the revival of classical learning, and to profit greatly by it.

  • It is generally applied to what is known as humanism, or the revival of classical learning.

  • They received their impulse from the classical learning, and, turning their attention to the affairs which surrounded them, developed a new literature.

  • The importance of classical learning to professional education is so obvious, that the surprise is, that it could ever have become matter of disputation.

  • There is not a single nation from the north to the south of Europe, from the bleak shores of the Baltic to the bright plains of immortal Italy, whose literature is not embedded in the very elements of classical learning.

  • He who studies English literature without the lights of classical learning, loses half the charms of its sentiments and style, of its force and feelings, of its delicate touches, of its delightful allusions, of its illustrative associations.

  • Sidenote: In the twelfth century;] The last circumstance which I shall mention, as having contributed to restore society from the intellectual degradation into which it had fallen during the dark ages, is the revival of classical learning.

  • If Mr. Croker is resolved to write on points of classical learning, we would advise him to begin by giving an hour every morning to our old friend Corderius.

  • It is unquestionable that a man whose mind has been thus enlarged and enriched is likely to be far more useful to the State and to the Church than one who is unskilled or little skilled, in classical learning.

  • Indeed the decisions of this editor on points of classical learning, though pronounced in a very authoritative tone, are generally such that, if a schoolboy under our care were to utter them, our soul assuredly should not spare for his crying.

  • It supplies Grotius, however, with a brilliant prodigality of classical learning.

  • We must here be content with simply recording the names of a few of the more prominent representatives of the 19th century in some of the most obvious departments of classical learning.

  • In the Grammar-school, John made rapid progress in classical learning; and in 1814 entered the University of Glasgow, with a view to the medical profession.

  • In classical learning relating to science and medicine she simply had the field; for one scholar in other countries she had a dozen, and the monopoly of journals relating to the history of these subjects.

  • About this period, the Gentlemen of the Port-Royal, in France, paid considerable attention to the education of youth, and to the cultivation of classical learning.

  • Classical learning, however, was first thoroughly awakened in Germany, by the scholars of Thomas A'Kempis, in the end of the fifteenth century.

  • Brant was very early the friend of Peter Schott, and through him had been brought in contact with a circle of learned men, who were busily engaged in founding one of the first schools of classical learning at Schlettstadt.

  • The new movement which had taken place in Italy in classical learning, supported chiefly by Greek refugees, began to extend its quickening influence beyond the Alps.

  • That there was a time when she was opposed to classical learning is a well attested fact, but she, at the same time, taught and operated in universities and monasteries, as stated above.

  • In the fourteenth century men of intellectual genius in Italy resolved to cultivate their own native language and to combine with its grandeur the charms of imagination and the acquirements of classical learning.

  • Here is the feature of Roman church history which infidels have endeavored to use falsely against even Rome, to wit: the opposition of the churchmen of those times to classical learning.

  • The way was open for the revival of classical learning in the fifteenth century, and for the cultivation of all the arts and sciences connected with its cultivation.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "classical learning" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    adverse report; amino acids; classical antiquity; classical authors; classical culture; classical education; classical learning; classical literature; classical mythology; classical studies; classical times; classical writers; fine sieve; good opportunity; good vinegar; large rock; little late; natural liberty; said bitterly; should love; southwesterly direction; square knot; thin layers; time wore; warm weather; wooded country