Acquire

Examples

• From him the poor may learn to acquire wealth, and the rich to adapt it to the purposes of beneficence. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• This signifies the capacity to acquire habits, or develop definite dispositions. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• A particular shade of any colour may acquire a new degree of liveliness or brightness without any other variation. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• I never knew Joe to remember anything from one Sunday to another, or to acquire, under my tuition, any piece of information whatever. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Having a ready-made existence on their own account, their relation to mind is exhausted in what they furnish it to acquire. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• I teach you a little each time I see you and eventually you will acquire an education. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• But when you are old, you acquire one excellent habit. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The jealousy of the artist to maintain that reputation, which his ingenuity has justly acquired, has urged him to unnecessary pains on this subject. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• In ordinary talk they might have passed unheeded; but following on her prolonged pause they acquired a special meaning. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• After the effervescence has ceased, a taste of the liquid will show you that the lemon juice has lost its acid nature, and has acquired in exchange a salty taste. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• I have said, that the defects of her character awoke and acquired vigour from her unnatural position. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Torpedo boats of this type have been acquired by, and now form a part of, the United States Navy. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• They had generally acquired some of the vices of civilization, but none of the virtues, except in individual cases. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I very nearly acquired the jargon at Silverton's age, and I know how names can alter the colour of beliefs. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Acquiring is always secondary, and instrumental to the act of inquiring. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• To recur to our previous illustration, the process of acquiring language is a practically perfect model of proper educative growth. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Holmes's card sent in to the manager ensured instant attention, and he was not long in acquiring all the information he needed. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• She knew she could not afford it, and she was afraid of acquiring so expensive a taste. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• His love of acquiring knowledge grew as he traveled, and he studied natural history, geology and chemistry. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The Glacier National Park is the latest addition to the series of great natural attractions which the United States Government has been acquiring for years. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• I feel an ambition to arise in me of contributing to the instruction of mankind, and of acquiring a name by my inventions and discoveries. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• The mind acquires through language a field of activity independent of the objective world. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• One is sometimes teased into going out, till one acquires a sort of habit of society, which it becomes difficult to throw off. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• The babe acquires, as we well say, the mother tongue. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Volumnia's pet little scream acquires a considerable augmentation of reality from this surprise, and the house is quickly in commotion. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The accompanying expansion reduces the temperature to a very low degree, and the brine which circulates around the coil _E_ acquires a temperature below the freezing point of pure water. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• He from that moment acquires a degree of consideration which he never had before. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Still more important is the fact that the human being acquires a habit of learning. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.

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