He had been for a considerable time under the influence of the doctrines taught by Etienne Lantier when he was selected by his comrades to place their views before the officials of the company.
His wife having become fond of Angelique Marie, who lived at that time with Francoise Hamelin, he obtained permission to take her to Paris, where she could be taught the trade of making flowers.
He was befriended by Florent, whotaught him to read and write.
They taught her to be charitable, and made her dispense their little gifts to the poor; these were always in kind, as they held that money was likely to be misused.
A retired infantry captain, with one arm, he had for a quarter of a century taught drawing to the youths of Plassans, in one of the galleries of the museum.
In place of an attempt at reparation towards men, against whom sin is really done, Christians are taught to seek the "forgiveness" of God.
Discussion and thought on the subjects taught are encouraged, and everything possible is done to awaken interest.
The justification of all sin in God's elect, a permanent indulgence, is plainly taught by Paul, Rom.
That a doctrine of polytheism is clearly taught in Gen.
Theft, arson, rape, and murder, are among them regarded as the means of distinction; and the young Indian from childhood is taught to regard killing as the highest of virtues.
It is worth noting, however, that in England mechanics has always been taught as an experimental science, while on the Continent it has been expanded deductively, as a development of a priori principles.
A doctrine which exalts thought in name while ignoring its efficacy in fact (that is, its use in bettering life) is a doctrine which cannot be entertained and taught without serious peril.
Philosophy when taught inevitably magnifies the history of past thought, and leads professional philosophers to approach their subject-matter through its formulation in received systems.
We have been taught to think of the focus as made up of sensory material of some sort and silhouetted against a background lit up by the fitful, inconsequential heat-lightning of meaning.
The kingdom of God, which meant the Divine rule over the souls of men, was at least not such a kingdom as they were looking for, as they had beentaught to expect.
They marvelled, because He taught with authority, and not as the scribes.
There is laid on all who would preach or teach Christianity to-day to show that Calvinism, and all that is touched with the taint of Calvinism, is not the doctrine of the Atonement which is taught in the Bible or held by the Church.
He might have taught the world better ethics and better theology, and yet have failed to infuse into it that new tide which has ever since coursed through its arteries and penetrated its minutest veins.
That Isocrates was so bashful and timorous, that though he taught rhetoric, yet he could never have the confidence to speak in public.
We are born and we live so unhappily that the accomplishment of a desire appears to us a falsehood, the realization of hope a deception, as if our sad experience had taught us the bitter lesson that in the world nothing is true but sorrow.
The lesson of perseverance in adversity taught by the spider to Robert Bruce is said to have been taught by the same insect to Tamerlane.
A literary man, whose library was destroyed by fire, has been deservedly admired for saying, "I should have profited but little by my books, if they had not taught me how to bear the loss of them.
That a daughter of John Brown taught a free school of emancipated slave children in the deserted drawing-room of Henry A.
Johnson's statement that the daughters were never taught to write.
She had apparently been taught to obey and never thought to ask why I wanted to see him.
He would spend Christmas with her, as he had from infancy taught her the significance of it and had never failed to celebrate.
You taught me to read and write and gave me an idea about things outside.
A long time ago my father taughtme how to shoot with a rifle and a pistol, and also to use a knife.
Experience hadtaught me that a man with his kind of nose seldom gets mad--just fierce.
Norma was carefully educated along broad, democratic lines and carefully taught the true worth of the self-seeking contingent who amble about, and simper their way along.
Perhaps so--then I have gainful employment compelling attention to others' problems which has taught me values in useful effort, brought me a few friends, uninfluenced by mere money.
I helped him a little and taught him to read a newspaper and got rid of some of his negro dialect.
He taught the sphericity of the earth, but adopted the common error of placing it in the centre of the world.
He introduced the division of the sphere into five zones, and taught the obliquity of the ecliptic.
Among many absurd things held by Anaximander, he first taught the sublime doctrine that the planets are inhabited, and that the stars are suns of other systems.
Although the minds of these ancient astronomers were beclouded with much error, yet Thales taught a few truths which do honor to his sagacity.
To some she taught the fabric of the sphere, The changeful moon, the circuit of the stars, The golden zones of heaven.
Aristotle taughtthat these motions are effected by a tutelary genius of each planet, residing in it, and directing its motions, as the mind of man directs his movements.
In many places he taught the children only for six months in each year.
Stuff like this is actually taught in the schools into which it is the object of the present French Government to drive by statute all the children of the country.
He taught his workmen to associate more closely with one another, he brought their minds and their hearts together, and let them act one upon another.
Doumer's doctrine that 'morals should be taught independently of religion' certainly did not commend itself to all his constituents.
The little girl meanwhile had been sent to school to a certain Mrs. Lataffiere, where she was taught to use her fingers, to write a lovely delicate hand, to work white satin waistcoats for her papa.
Besides her English Testament and her early reading, the little girl was taught by her mother to do as little daughters did in those days, to obey a somewhat austere rule, to drop curtsies in the right place, to make beds, to preserve fruits.
I had heard that heaven was beyond those blue skies, and I had been taught that there was the home of the good, and I fancied that those sweet bells were ringing in heaven.
To me there was nothing of that engaging, captivating manner which I had been taught to expect.
The father, after demur, but surely not without some paternal pride in her proficiency, taught the child Latin and French and Italian, and something of Greek, and gave her an acquaintance with English literature.
The poor child was to be taught to despise luxury, to ignore fear, to be superior to pain.
She saw the depth of woe into which Hinpoha had been plunged and knew that the bitter experience had taught her a lesson in discretion she would not soon forget.
A Japanese fellow down in Washington taught it to me.
I realise that we have to learn by experience, and I feel that to-night I have been taught a great deal.
The time of preparation is one series of kaleidoscopic pictures--of crawling inside a machine unfamiliar to either of us: of being taught the operation of a new petrol pressure system: of watching the loading of the four huge 250-lb.
Perhaps, at some future time, they would, but whether they did or not, they had taught each other certain lessons at Ramsgate which it is possible for us all to learn.
Is it conceivable, I ask, that a God would send his Son to us, and then leave us to wander through a pile of dusty manuscripts to find out why He sent His Son, and what He taught when on earth?
Upon her removal to Lynn, in 1812, Lloyd was left to the care of Deacon Ezekiel Bartlett and was sent to the Grammar School until, at the age of nine, he joined his mother in Lynn and was taught shoemaking in the shop of Gamaliel W.
His daughter was taught mathematics, and studied the classics, history, and modern languages under her father's guidance.
Taught by her father, she soon learned to distinguish between what was really good work and which mere make-believe.
He taught school while yet a lad in the village of Mold, Flintshire, North Wales.
Allen, proprietor of the Newburyport Herald, accepted Lloyd, then thirteen years of age, as an apprentice and taught him the printer's trade.
Returning to Ohio he taught school for a year or more in Hopedale, near New Rumley, and in 1857 was able to see his boyish dream come true, and, as a lad of seventeen, enter the United States Military Academy at West Point.
The king at first disowned the disgraceful compact, but Austerlitz had just taught him what Napoleon's enemies might expect.
The clever lad attracted the notice of some of the greatest mechanical draughtsmen in Sweden, who made him drawings to serve as models, and taught him many of the principles of the art.
Parents and children were constantly together, and the mother taught herself to believe that the sharp trials of those years would tell for good on her boys and girls.
The delight in life is clearly indicated, and the only sort of self-denial that is taught is the self-denial that ends in simplicity of life, and in the joyful and courageous shouldering of inevitable burdens.
But I sometimes wonder if anything which has been taught with dictionary and grammar, with parsing and construing, with detention and imposition, can ever wholly regain its charm.
The Word of God was taught in the vernacular, the Bible and, along with it, uncanonical writings, were translated into the vernacular.
The man did as the lark had taught him, and the woman came in for a drubbing she never expected.
They came along with other religious legends, carried by the current of thought which alsotaught the doctrine of Dualism and Metempsychosis.
The power of the Church and the secular arm were both used ruthlessly for exterminating any idea or any belief that ran counter to the doctrines taught by the established Church.
It is what holds society together, and if children were trained to love humanity, to love all countries and their inhabitants as they are taught to love their own country and countrymen, there would be no wars.
Every child, every youth should be taught the danger of this fatal human enemy, doubt.
They forgot that the religion Christ taught was one of joy.
From his cradle up he should be taught to hold his head high, and to look on himself as a son of the King of kings, destined for great things.
Every child should be taught to expect success and happiness, to believe that the good things of the world are intended for him.
The reason why we are such shriveled, scrub oaks of human beings is found in the dried-up, mean, stingy ideal of ourselves which we have been taught to hold.
I have long since taught him all I know, and it is practice now, and not teaching, that we have every day.
It is not only that you led the lad into mischief, Malcolm, but that you taught him to do it behind my back.
He was well taught in Glasgow, and has practised under the best maitres d'armes in Paris since, and I am proud to say that I do not think there are ten men in France against whom he could not hold his own.
Mr. Taylor thought she had very low views of infant education; and yet, you could not have found anywhere a set of children, between three and ten, who were more thoroughly taught what their instructor professed to teach.
From the many thoughts that crowd upon me, I can only select a few, which my own experience has taught me to value as important.
The children are taught to love and look upon their masters and mistresses as friends, to be consulted and applied to as they would to kind parents.
It is not enough to teach boys and girls,--the manufacturers and purchasers need to be taught by the eye, if not by the hand.
The girls are taught plain needlework instead of drawing.
Under this management the public, who care little for abstract art, weretaught the close connexion between the instruction of the School of Design and their private pursuits.
Beside which, the girls in the hospital for poor children, another branch of the charity, are taughthousehold duties, needlework, reading and writing.
All are educated, and those who are old enough are taught trades and domestic employments.
Besides, he had already been taught a lesson that boys and girls cannot learn too young, which is, that to listen to things you are not meant to hear is a sort of cheating, for it is like taking something not meant for you.
We are there taught to look for a power from on high, capable of effecting what human efforts cannot accomplish,--the purification of the heart.
Above all small cynicisms and hardness, his experience of life seemed only to have taught him a wise, fine trust, and, perhaps in consequence of this attitude of mind, it was impossible not to trust him.
As she had said, he taught her nearly everything she knew; she rebelled against other methods, and Perior himself would have felt robbed had governess or tutor supplanted him.
He is forty odd; a bachelor; he lives in a square stone house, and taught me very nearly everything I know.
And yet, with all this caution, this doctrine is assiduously taught to little children in Sabbath-Schools.
In his Candide, one of the most amusing tales that was ever written, he introduces a young man of strong passions and weak understanding, who had been taught this doctrine by a metaphysical tutor.
Again: "This doctrine affords us unspeakable consolation, since we are taught thereby, that nothing can befall us by chance, but by the direction of our most gracious and Heavenly Father.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "taught" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: briefed; educated; enlightened; informed; posted; primed; scholarly; trained
