Educating

Examples

• They have no fondness for their colts or foals, but the care they take in educating them proceeds entirely from the dictates of reason. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• We must set our face against all this educating, elevating talk, that is getting about now; the lower class must not be educated. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Herein lay the spring of the mechanical art and mystery of educating the reason without stooping to the cultivation of the sentiments and affections. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• In educating the youth of both sexes, their method is admirable, and highly deserves our imitation. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Fish on his return from St. Louis, after he had argued the Edison side, he felt keenly that disadvantage, to say nothing of the hopeless difficulty of educating the court. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Of the inhabitants of Lilliput; their learning, laws, and customs; the manner of educating their children. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• He is very good to his poor relations: pensions several of the women, and is educating a young fellow at a good deal of expense. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Our system is educating them in barbarism and brutality. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• South as well as north, there are women who have an extraordinary talent for command, and tact in educating. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• The Countess Palmella, wife of the Portuguese Ambassador, in South Audley Street; I have been educating her children. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• I don't like it, but I know it's uncommonly hard on my father to say so, after he has spent a good deal of money in educating me for it. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• But when papa has been at the expense of educating him for it! George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Abroad, said Miss Havisham; educating for a lady; far out of reach; prettier than ever; admired by all who see her. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• You have talked a great deal about our responsibilities in educating, Cousin. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Reflect upon this proposition; and decide whether you would prefer educating your niece yourself to her being brought up by a stepmother. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• To govern a democracy you have to educate it: that contact with great masses of men reciprocates by educating the leader. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• You're always preaching about educating. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Well, all the girls here have lost either one or both parents, and this is called an institution for educating orphans. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.

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