Taught

Examples

• My father, who taught me, is away, and I don't get on very fast alone, for I've no one to correct my pronunciation. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• I do assure you that my intimacy has not yet taught me _that_. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Had not his books taught him that he was a man? Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Surely somebody has taught you, she added, with amiable archness. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Mamma thought the dear too young to be taught to conquer his prejudices, but Papa believed that it never was too soon to learn obedience. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• His own good sense taught him that such a training of his servants was unjust and dangerous. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• But if women are to have the same employments as men, they must have the same education--they must be taught music and gymnastics, and the art of war. Plato. The Republic.
• Years later he wrote to his mother: After all, the way in which we are taught Latin and Greek does not much influence the important st ructure of our minds. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• I taught her to walk. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• We were told this when young, and taught to look forward to it as an event that would certainly take place. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Now Dalton's master had taught that the atoms of matter in a gas (elastic fluid) repel one another by a force increasing in proport ion as their distance diminishes. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• If they do not operate, the blame is put not on the subject as taught, but on the indifference and recalcitrancy of pupils. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• It was he who taught the butler to say, My lady is served, and who insisted on handing her ladyship in to dinner. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I told Ma I was ashamed of myself, and I must be taught to dance. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• She has since been taught one thing and another in the way of her duties, but she was tamed from the beginning. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Lydgate, with the usual shallowness of a young bachelor, wondered that Mr. Farebrother had not taught them better. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Then she asked: 'Did your father know so much himself, that he wished you to be well taught too, Sissy? Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• It has taught me two things though, I replied. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• It was he who told me how good and generous you were, and who taught me to love you as a brother. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• These men had been taught from infancy to revere, almost to worship, the holy places whereon their happy eyes were resting now. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Yes, you never thought to see me here again, but it was that night which taught me how I could meet you face to face, and alone. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Being self-taught, they cannot be expected to show any gratitude for a culture which they have never received. Plato. The Republic.
• Then for a week he taught in Jerusalem, surrounded by a crowd of followers who made his arrest by the authorities difficult. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• And who taught you to paint wind? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Twenty years' apprenticeship in the school of Plato had sharpened his logical powers and added to his stock of general ideas, but had not taught him to distrust his senses. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• If, upon examination, he appears to understand what is taught there, no questions are asked about the place where he learnt it. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• He was a man of enormous energy, and he taught at Jerusalem, Antioch, Athens, Corinth, Ephesus, and Rome. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I determined to ask Joe why he had ever taught me to call those picture-cards Jacks, which ought to be called knaves. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Then as now, the propositions brought to Edison ranged over every conceivable subject, but the years have taught him caution in grappling with them. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• He is the son of a miserly oligarch, and has been taught by him to restrain the love of unnecessary pleasures. Plato. The Republic.

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