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Example sentences for "liberal education"

  • Indignity is of all things the most hostile to the best purposes of a liberal education.

  • Of his youth we know nothing, except that he enjoyed the advantage of a liberal education, and that his morals were no exception to the lax habits of the age.

  • After a liberal education, Federigo passed several years at the court of Clement VII.

  • Deprived of a liberal education, by the pecuniary embarrassments of his father, who had a large family to support, he left the Utica Academy in 1820, and made an effort to learn a mechanical trade, with only partial success.

  • The average boy of to-day who wishes to obtain a liberal education has a better chance by a hundredfold than had Daniel Webster or James A.

  • It is more of a disgrace for a college graduate to grovel, to stoop to mean, low practises, than for a man who has not had a liberal education.

  • Sanskrit in his judgment constitutes an essential element of a liberal education.

  • This gave a new impetus to his desire for what was then termed a "liberal education.

  • Feeling in himself the want of an early education, Mr. Williams spared no pains in bestowing superior advantages upon his children, all of whom received a liberal education.

  • The Place of Science in a Liberal Education 33 III.

  • The Tatler," Steele refers to her in the famous sentence: "to love her is a liberal education.

  • We speak of "liberal education," and surely the epithet is meaningless unless it be taken to imply that conversion to those general principles is the very bed-rock of education.

  • But it seems to us that the central subject of a liberal education, that subject to which all others cohere and in relation to which all others are justified, ought to make some such appeal to enthusiasm.

  • Certainly, he said, they should not interfere in any way with her in acquiring a "liberal education.

  • There are elements of power common to all men, and instruments of knowledge effective for both the general pursuits of a liberal education, and the limited pursuits of physical toil.

  • The phrase, "self-made men" is often so used as to convey the idea that the persons who have enjoyed the advantages of a liberal education, are rather made by their instructors.

  • There are, of course, two distinct elements in a liberal education: the one the acquisition of useful knowledge, the other a training or culture of the intellectual faculties.

  • Humanity, Good Nature, and the Advantages of a Liberal Education, are incompatible with Avarice.

  • Severe experience has taught me the errors and defects of what is called a liberal education.

  • Indeed it appears to me that what is now called a liberal Education, disqualifies a man for business.

  • The Tour of America, a necessary Part of a liberal Education.

  • A tour thro the United States ought now to be considered as a necessary part of a liberal education.

  • For a long time, a liberal education seems to take no note of the specific ends, which finally it may be desirable to aim at.

  • It can only arise from this pernicious error, or from some doubt as to the real advantage of a liberal education;--an error and a doubt, both of which should be remanded to the Dark Ages.

  • There are many useful things that might be learnt by a person who wished to be trained for domestic service; but it is rare enough to find a cook that, amongst other items of a liberal education, has been given cooking lessons.

  • In this way Wordsworth received in every sense of the term a liberal education; and when he went to Cambridge, 'he enjoyed even more thoroughly than at Hawkshead whatever advantages might be derived from the neglect of his teachers.


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