Erudition
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9 examples of Erudition in a sentence
His books - which he found time to write despite the hectic demands of diplomacy - were a unique combination of enormous
erudition
and crystalline clarity.
He was a classical scholar of true
erudition
and a man of principle.
With his academic background and immense erudition, he succeeded in painting, on a wide canvass, the new directions of Turkey’s policies under the Justice and Development Party (AKP) leadership.
Recently, Tusk spoke at a University of Warsaw event commemorating Poland’s 1791 constitution, where he made a show of
erudition
by citing Immanuel Kant, Edmund Burke, George Washington, and Ortega y Gasset.
He displayed his erudition, cited pell-mell cantharides, upas, the manchineel, vipers.
"For, how could you expect me not to feel uneasy about what that ancient lawgiver they call the Public will say when it sees me, after slumbering so many years in the silence of oblivion, coming out now with all my years upon my back, and with a book as dry as a rush, devoid of invention, meagre in style, poor in thoughts, wholly wanting in learning and wisdom, without quotations in the margin or annotations at the end, after the fashion of other books I see, which, though all fables and profanity, are so full of maxims from Aristotle, and Plato, and the whole herd of philosophers, that they fill the readers with amazement and convince them that the authors are men of learning, erudition, and eloquence.
"Next, to prove yourself a man of
erudition
in polite literature and cosmography, manage that the river Tagus shall be named in your story, and there you are at once with another famous annotation, setting forth—The river Tagus was so called after a King of Spain: it has its source in such and such a place and falls into the ocean, kissing the walls of the famous city of Lisbon, and it is a common belief that it has golden sands, etc.
Another book I have which I call 'The Supplement to Polydore Vergil,' which treats of the invention of things, and is a work of great
erudition
and research, for I establish and elucidate elegantly some things of great importance which Polydore omitted to mention.
This is the reason why Monsieur the Principal has proposed to me the following subject, which has not yet been treated upon, and in which I perceive there is matter for magnificent elaboration-’UTRAQUE MANUS IN BENEDICENDO CLERICIS INFERIORIBUS NECESSARIA EST.’"D’Artagnan, whose
erudition
we are well acquainted with, evinced no more interest on hearing this quotation than he had at that of M. de Treville in allusion to the gifts he pretended that d’Artagnan had received from the Duke of Buckingham.
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