According to report, it is perhaps not so easy to acquire the rudiments of faith and religion.
To teach our oarsmen the rudiments of the stroke we resort to months of the galley-slavery of tank-rowing.
And for the next twelve months we were placed under a special committee for advice as to medical experience, acquaintance with the rudiments of trades, and anything else which might be thought useful to us in the Foreign field.
These spare moments every day I devoutly spent on my books, chiefly in the rudiments of Latin and Greek; for I had given my soul to God, and was resolved to aim at being a Missionary of the Cross, or a Minister of the Gospel.
The trouble was, not one of them understood the rudiments of the art.
He was born in poverty, with no antecedents of greatness; untaught, even in the rudiments of learning, until he was thirty; up to that time patiently driving mules along the steep paths of his native state.
Are rudiments of education given by father or mother to their offspring?
It is evident that in all these and similar speculations the chief attention was not drawn to the actual working of the social mechanism, but to survivals, rudiments and fictitious primeval conditions.
The father as well as the mother treat children of both sexes with extreme leniency, and give them some rudiments of education.
Upon the ventral surface of each of the rings thus sketched out, a pair of bud-like prominences made their appearance--the rudiments of the appendages of the ring.
I have therefore supposed these appendages to be therudiments of the future roots.
Branchiae are wanting, or where their first rudiments may be detected as small verruciform prominences, these are dense cell-masses, through which the blood does not yet flow, and which therefore have nothing to do with respiration.
When the male is furnished with leg-spurs the female almost always exhibits rudiments of them,--the rudiment sometimes consisting of a mere scale, as with the species of Gallus.
From his father he received therudiments of his education, which was continued at Leiden under A.
Reading, writing and arithmetic were the indispensable tools for acquiring knowledge, and intellectual discipline was to be gained through the rudiments of physical science.
His works seem, however, to show the lack of a systematic course of training in the rudiments of technique; but in such strong and characteristic portraits as that of Rufus Choate he has exhibited decided ability.
I wish Shakespeare had written the play after he had learned some of the rudiments of literature and art rather than before.
How I have sinned against proportion, and with every effort to the contrary, against the merest rudiments of courtesy to you!
A governess, a fat-checked girl, who I am afraid takes too humorous a view of the position, comes of mornings to instruct Carlotta in the rudiments of education.
No wonder the invertebrate soul could do no more for her daughter than teach her monosyllabic English and the rudiments of reading and writing.
For if the Turanian settlers brought the rudiments of that culture from the highlands of Elam, how long had they sojourned there before they descended into the plains?
But when we remember that these first known settlers of Shumir came from somewhere else, and that they brought with them more than therudiments of civilization, we are at once thrown back at least a couple of thousands of years more.
He had one son, a boy of the most promising hopes, whom he would never suffer to be instructed in the first rudiments of literature.
Even should any seek to rise in life, he would find no means of doing so, unless perchance some kindly priest should give the rudiments of knowledge to a boy brighter than the rest.
In a few of these areas there existed what might be called the rudiments of a distinctive character belonging to the inhabitants of that area and marking them off from those who dwell in other divisions.
More than that, it is now known that in the egg of the Nautilus the rudiments of the shell exist.
Nobody will ask this question who has mastered even the rudiments of royalty, and we shall not take the trouble of answering it fully.
In the picture, we have the first rudiments of society.
He was the son of a skillful goldsmith, who taught him the rudiments of design; subsequently he studied under Martin Hapse and Michael Wolgemut.
When a boy he was taught the rudiments of his art by a French sculptor, Binon.
Born in Chamagne, Lorraine, and learned the first rudiments of art from his brother, who was an engraver on wood.
Born at Paris, where he acquired the rudiments of art.
So called from the place of his birth; was the son of Hugo Jacobs, who instructed him in the rudiments of art and later placed him with Cornelius Engelbrechtsen.
He learned the rudiments from his uncle, Lorenzo Allegri, and followed the style of Montegna.
The simple answer is undoubtedly this: from the same quarter that they derived the other rudiments of their civilisation, in short, from Media.
The rudiments of the cerebral nerves and the roots of the spinal nerves are especially marked.
On the other hand, the ventral parts give rise, from their uppermost section, to the pronephridia or primitive-kidney canals, and from the lower to the segmental rudiments of the sexual glands or gonads.
These atavistic human tails are often mobile; sometimes they contain only muscles and fat, sometimes also rudimentsof caudal vertebrae.
In those protists (unicellular plants and animals) which have the first rudimentsof sexual reproduction the two copulating cells are at first quite equal.
The first rudiments of the principal parts of the body, especially the oldest organ, the alimentary canal, are the same everywhere; they have always the same extremely simple form.
He can't play with the people who play here; he doesn't know the rudiments of play.
But she invited nobody to remain, and nobody ventured to, not even several very young and ardent gentlemen who had acquired only the rudiments of social sense.
They separate the Spirit from the word, and reckon the word and law of God, which was a lamp to David’s feet, among the fleshly rudiments of the world.
Who gave him the first rudiments or principles of that art?
