I honour the refractory, fastidious tongues and stomachs, which have learned to say "I" and "Yea" and "Nay."
Verily, I learned waiting also, and thoroughly so,--but only waiting for MYSELF.
And with every door that you unlock, you will become aware of others and still others that are yet shut fast, until at last you learn with something of pain, that the great palace of our Literature is so vast that you can never hope to open all the doors even to peep inside.
But as time went on, as life became more easy, in one way or another the savage learned to become less savage.
"Only you're obliged to remember it while you're at school, else you've got to learn ever so many lines of 'Speaker.' Mr.
"Oh, you can do them without learning," said Philip; "I never learned drawing."
The animals in cages, which gradually
learn to get out, perform random movements at first, which are purely instinctive.
The mine was divided into a large number of different "rooms" or departments, and, as I never was able to learn the location of all these "rooms," I many times found myself lost in the mine.
The first thing I ever learned in the way of book knowledge was while working in this salt-furnace.
"We've learned the truth of what Professor Woodleigh told us last Philomathic," said Phil.
When you've learned to laugh at the things that should be laughed at, and not to laugh at those that shouldn't, you've got wisdom and understanding."
I think that having
learned our letters we should read the best that is in literature, and not be forever repeating our a-b-abs, and words of one syllable, in the fourth or fifth classes, sitting on the lowest and foremost form all our lives.
Next morning, the
learned man went out to drink coffee and read the newspapers.
But White Fang's reprisals did not cease, even when the young dogs had
learned thoroughly that they must stay together.
His collection is interesting and important, not only as the parent source or foundation of the earlier printed versions of Aesop, but as the direct channel of attracting to these fables the attention of the
learned.