Ames; and I believe a son of the Doctor is buried in Wrentham Churchyard, as I recollect my father, on one occasion, had an old gravestone done up and relettered, which bore testimony to the virtues and piety and learning of an Ames.
If so, much of Milton’s piety and lofty principle and massive learning must have come to him from the Stowmarket Vicar.
And she felt that he was learning her, learningall that she had to give him, learning the trust that was shining through her eyes.
That, however, was surely wicked and wasteful, when she ought to be learning such a tremendous lot; and yet, what was there to learn?
Cardinal Richard, upon learning of this execution, wrote immediately to M.
Consalvi, secretary of the Conclave, contrived to arouse interest in an entirely new candidate, a man whose saintly life and great learning was added to the fact that he appeared wholly outside the quarrels of the nations.
The sentiment was fostered and encouraged in them by the unscrupulous spirits of discontent, who knew that anarchy could never prosper while learning and virtue remained unabused.
The anger of the Emperor upon learning the mind of the Pope did not prevent him from making another attempt at reconciliation.
The king institutes them into their functions; they are exempt, as we may read in Genesis, from public burdens; every function involving learning or art is in their hands.
For a quarter of his life he is a student living with a teacher and learning from him the sacred knowledge of the Vedas.
This makes a man superior to all rules and conventions; at home with himself he is superior to the world; he does not dissipate his energies in learning a great number of outward things, but acts spontaneously from an inner impulse.
Master Henry's teaching was not the kind which was practiced by pedagogues of little learning and experience, who ruled with the rod and inculcated their lessons by blows and punishments.
The task of learning the language of the Indians was the most important one, and each morning several hours were set aside for that purpose.
A little learning, we are told, is a dangerous thing; and in their dealings with Irish education the English should have discovered that this danger is accentuated when the little learning is combined with much native wit.
In spite of all this, when the missionary came among them they were as docile as if they had during all their lives been learning to obey, which is something very difficult even in religious orders.
Later in the same year, learning that six pataches were being prepared for the voyage, he arranged to reassemble the religious and to take them in these vessels, though he had already been appointed bishop of Caceres.
In spite of his age, and the great difficulty which he had in learning the Indian language, he at length succeeded.
His own losses make him prudent, his own learning wise.
Are they to begin learning the luxurious manners of the court so early?
Persevere in learning the beautiful language of my forefathers.
You're all for learning and knowing everything, and I'm for enjoying.
With such a prize in prospect we must no more fear a little humiliation than a man who is learningto ride fears a fall from his horse.
He could see nought else in Cambyses but the future king of Persia, and commanded his subjects to pay him an unquestioning obedience, entirely forgetful of the fact that he who is to govern well must begin by learning to obey.
He was acquainted with two young gardeners who were learning their business by working under the head gardener at a hall in Cheshire, the owner of which was proud of his greenhouses and hothouses as well as of the grounds outside.
Their youngest son was learning surgery, but, not caring for that profession, and being of a wild and roving disposition, he ran away to sea, and eventually became a pirate and the captain of a privateer.
She waited, therefore, quite quietly for the letter that never came; meanwhile employing herself in learning all she could about France.
It's very simple, dear Jography, but I was a long, long time learning about it.
But wise Toby looked angry when he saw him talking to Cecile, and pretending that he was learning some broken English from her pretty lips.
No one knew what Toby suffered in learning that rather ponderous dance; how stiff his poor legs felt, how weak his back, how hard he had to struggle to keep his balance.
A head-piece like his was meant for book learning and college.
Dined with my wife, and then to talk again above, chiefly about her learning to dance against her going next year into the country, which I am willing she shall do.
In such a place you could make no advancement in learning save by communing with yourself.
And of course," said Master McLean, who had recovered his usual calm, "he forgot all his classical learning while he was there.
The physician could afford the lad but little relief, so the boy applied himself to the task of learning the deaf-and-dumb alphabet.
Learning hath gained most by those books by which the Printers have lost.
I'd rather be back at the dear old factory than learning to pronounce the names of the old masters in my picture-gallery.
Priest and magician were originally one; but the former, learning humility in the face of might greater than his own, discarded the spell for the prayer and prostrated himself before a higher power.
As a critic he was distinguished for learning and acumen.
On learning that her sister was at Antioch, Tryphena urged her husband to attack the place.
Antony, who was at this time at Amphipolis, a city not far distant from Philippi, learning that Brutus and Cassius had taken their positions in anticipation of an attack, advanced immediately and encamped upon the plain.
Eight years before, when George Tressady had first entered Christchurch, he had found that place of tempered learning alive with traditions on the subject of "Dicky Fontenoy.
You don't get excited when you're learning anything.
As you see, I'm using Father's typewriter and I'm learning to use it fairly well now.
Palgrave's learning and judgment would not permit me to make this remark without carefully considering and re-weighing all the contending authorities on which he himself relies.
Much learning has been employed by Scandinavian scholars in illustrating the symbols supposed to be couched under the myth of the Ygg-drasill, or the great Ash-tree.
As teacher of the tojin learning and customs,” I explained, “I will begin by showing the Princess the tojin etiquette practised between a gentleman and a lady.
Yoritomo had suffered as great inconvenience while learning to wear Occidental dress and to sit on chairs.
Have I heard that the Council of Elders has punished those who study the Dutch learningor those who teach the history of Nippon?
Your son has travelled beyond the shores of Nippon; he has traversed the five continents, and proved the truth of the Dutch learning by sailing around the vast circuit of the world.
But in Oxford and Cambridge knowledge is not everything; they are more and less than universities; the learning they cultivate is selective and pursued in the service of aristocratic liberty.
Piety and learning had their intrinsic charms, but, after all, they had been cultivated for the sake of ulterior duties and benefits, and in order to appropriate and hand down the revealed wisdom which opened the way to heaven.
A mediaeval tradition survives in their notion of learning and in their manner of life; they are monks flown from the dovecot, scholastics carrying their punctilious habits into the family circle.
America from the first has been part of the great English experiment--great because it is capable of learning from experience.
Growing and learning and obeying the rules of their elders, or fighting against them, are not easy things to do.
Burgoyne was already being defeated at Bennington while Howe was reading his dispatch and learning for the first time that he was expected to cooperate with Burgoyne.
While at Plymouth and Salem he spent much time in learning the Indian tongue.
Little did he dream as he slept in their filthy wigwams what a great benefit the learning of their language would be to him later on.
He consulted the Delphic oracle with a view to learning the means of escaping from this disease.
