Acquiring

Examples

• 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.
• I cannot boast of much success in acquiring the _reality_ of this virtue, but I had a good deal with regard to the appearance of it. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• And his romantic manner of acquiring it, make him conspicuous. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• For hundreds of centuries they were acquiring skill of hand and limb, and power and bulk of brain, in that still unknown environment. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• His main object in life seemed to be acquiring the art of throwing up wash-pitchers and catching them without breaking them. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• It is one of those cases where the art of the reasoner should be used rather for the sifting of details than for the acquiring of fresh evidence. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• The real price of every thing, what every thing really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• These thoughts exhilarated me, and led me to apply with fresh ardour to the acquiring the art of language. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• In modern times we hardly need to be reminded that the process of acquiring knowledge is here confused with the contemplation of absolute knowledge. Plato. The Republic.

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