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«Nobody had ever instructed him that a slave-ship, with a procession of expectant sharks in its wake, is a missionary institution, by which closely-packed heathen are brought over to enjoy the light of the Gospel.»
Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
(Author, Philanthropist, Writer)
| Keywords:
expectant, instructed, missionary, sharks, slave ship
«Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.»
Author: G. K. Chesterton
(Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Education
| Keywords:
education, instructed, instructing, instructs, period, somebody
«In Scouting, a boy is encouraged to educate himself instead of being instructed.»
Author: Sir Robert Baden-Powell
(Army Officer)
| About:
Scouting
| Keywords:
boy scout, Boy Scouts, educate, encouraged, instructed, scouting, Scouts
«Liberty is one of the best of all sublunary advantages. I would willingly therefore communicate knowledge, without infringing, or with as little possible violence to, the volition and individual judgment of the person to be instructed.»
«For the LORD spake thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying, / Say ye not, A confederacy, to all them to whom this people shall say, A confederacy; neither fear ye their fear, nor be afraid.»
«I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.»
«Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us, / Even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word; / It seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to write unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus, / That thou mightest know the certainty of those things, wherein thou hast been instructed.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
declaration, Declaration of, delivered, even as, eyewitness, eyewitnesses, First Minister, instructed, in hand, ministers, set forth, Theophilus, wherein
«It is the mark of an instructed mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision to which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness when only an approximation of the truth is possible.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| Keywords:
admits, approximation, degree, exactness, instructed, instructing, instructs, in degree, mark, precision, satisfied, seek, subject, subjecting, The Mark, The Mark of, to that degree
«He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.»
«Now these are the things wherein Solomon was instructed for the building of the house of God. The length by cubits after the first measure was threescore cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.»
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