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1. As the heat in my soul rose to a combustible level I forgot the rudiments of the English language, reverting to a lingua franca that combined the best of the gutter from East and West
2. However, challenges are there to be surmonted and after an hour’s hard slog, the rudiments are in place
3. went well and she quickly grasped the rudiments of reading,
4. attempted to instil the rudiments of the Lyndesfarne alphabet, and the
5. I know only the rudiments of composition
6. Originally, the first rudiments, both of the Greek and Latin languages, were taught in universities; and in some universities they still continue to be so
7. In others, it is expected that the student should have previously acquired, at least, the rudiments of one or both of those languages, of which the study continues to make everywhere a very considerable part of university education
8. If you desire the rudiments of a liberal education, this is the place to start
9. The forger taught Joe the rudiments of forging signatures
10. about our relationships with others may seem a far cry from the rudiments of
11. The old man then spent over an hour until sunset to start teaching them the rudiments of Latin
12. him the rudiments of English, so we could communicate
13. But I read where dreams are rudiments of the great
14. just quoted where dreams are the rudiments of things to come, what is
15. At the same time, this article will serve as a simple introduction to the rudiments of Mayan astrology
16. He clearly sees with his inner Yogic eyes the subtle rudiments of matter
17. Scientists have no knowledge of the subtle rudiments of matter
18. rudiments of a lock system
19. 'If thou meanest me by great scholars, thou female babe, know that my years and poor rudiments of learning have served only to make it clear to me that the best things in life are of the class to which sitting under one umbrella with a dear little cousin belong
20. Rafferty had nearly forgotten that eleven years of schooling had failed to teach Jack even the rudiments of the alphabet
21. 20 Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,
22. from the rudiments [stoikion] of the world [kesmos] why as though living in the
23. It was the rudiments [elements] of the
24. from the rudiments (stoikion) of the world (kesmos) why as though living in the
25. It was the rudiments (elements) of the
26. · “Take heed lest there shall be any one that makes spoil of you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments (stoikion) of the world (kesmos), and not after Christ…If you died with Christ from the rudiments (stoikion) of the world (kesmos) why as though living in the world (kesmos) …” (Colossians 2:8-20)
27. It was the rudiments (elements) of the world (kesmos) that they died to, elements of the world (kesmos) that they were living in, not Old Testament Israel that they had died to (past tense) before A
28. So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the rudiments of the world: but when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, that he might redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons
29. How be it at that time, not knowing God, you were in bondage to them that by nature are no gods: but now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how turn you back again to the weak and beggarly rudiments, whereunto you desire to be in bondage over again? You observe days, and months, and seasons, and years
30. He advised my attending certain places in London, for the acquisition of such mere rudiments as I wanted, and my investing him with the functions of explainer and director of all my studies
31. Correlates of compliance and the rudiments of conscience in twoyear-old boys
32. His little face was tense in study, for he had partially grasped, in a hazy, nebulous way, the rudiments of a thought which was destined to prove the key and the solution to the puzzling problem of the strange little bugs
33. The petals in the imperfect flowers almost always consist of mere rudiments, and the pollen-grains are reduced in diameter
34. For the workers of Myrmica have not even rudiments of ocelli, though the male and female ants of this genus have well-developed ocelli
35. There are beetles belonging to closely allied species, or even to the same identical species, which have either full-sized and perfect wings, or mere rudiments of membrane, which not rarely lie under wing-covers firmly soldered together; and in these cases it is impossible to doubt, that the rudiments represent wings
36. In tracing the homologies of any part in different members of the same class, nothing is more common, or, in order fully to understand the relations of the parts, more useful than the discovery of rudiments
37. Nor is it consistent with itself: thus the boa-constrictor has rudiments of hind limbs and of a pelvis, and if it be said that these bones have been retained "to complete the scheme of nature," why, as Professor Weismann asks, have they not been retained by other snakes, which do not possess even a vestige of these same bones? What would be thought of an astronomer who maintained that the satellites revolve in elliptic courses round their planets "for the sake of symmetry," because the planets thus revolve round the sun? An eminent physiologist accounts for the presence of rudimentary organs, by supposing that they serve to excrete matter in excess, or matter injurious to the system; but can we suppose that the minute papilla, which often represents the pistil in male flowers, and which is formed of mere cellular tissue, can thus act? Can we suppose that rudimentary teeth, which are subsequently absorbed, are beneficial to the rapidly growing embryonic calf by removing matter so precious as phosphate of lime? When a man's fingers have been amputated, imperfect nails have been known to appear on the stumps, and I could as soon believe that these vestiges of nails are developed in order to excrete horny matter, as that the rudimentary nails on the fin of the manatee have been developed for this same purpose
38. We often see rudiments of various parts in monsters; but I doubt whether any of these cases throw light on the origin of rudimentary organs in a state of nature, further than by showing that rudiments can be produced; for the balance of evidence clearly indicates that species under nature do not undergo great and abrupt changes
39. Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled
40. In such a state I was, and I assume many of us are, in respect to the principle of "development" which obfuscates pedagogy, in its connection with the rudiments
41. Consequently for the final choice of the best method of teaching the rudiments, it is necessary first of all to stand on theoretic soil, on the basis of previous considerations, the general conditions of which give to this or that method the actual right to be called satisfactory from the pedagogical standpoint
42. These conditions are: (1) It has to be a method which is capable of developing the child's mental powers, so that the acquisition of the rudiments may be obtained together with the development and the strengthening of the reasoning powers
43. Just so, in either school it happens that some children cannot learn the rudiments
44. Formerly, just as now, some, in reply to the question of what ought to be taught, said that outside of the rudiments the most useful information for a primary school is obtained from the natural sciences; others, even as now, that that was not necessary, and was even injurious; even as now, some proposed history, or geography, while others denied their necessity; some proposed the Church-Slavic language and grammar, and religion, while others found that, too, superfluous, and ascribed a prime importance to "development
45. In the Mohammedan countries this relation of the rudiments and religion still persists in its full force
46. But in addition to the good results which were always obtained without fail from the application of my method by myself and by everybody else (more than twenty teachers), who taught according to my method ("without fail" I say for the reason that not once did we have a pupil who did not learn the rudiments), besides these results, the application of the principles of which I have spoken had the effect that during these fifteen years all the various modifications, to which my method was subjected, not only did not remove it from the needs of the masses, but, on the contrary, brought it nearer and nearer to them
47. The peasants assume that the school is not in the structure, but in the teacher, and that the school is not a permanent institution, but that as soon as the parents have acquired knowledge, the next generation will get the rudiments without a teacher
48. All of us know peasants who have learned the rudiments in such schools, and it cannot be said that this learning was useless or injurious
49. And so, thanks to the diffusion of the press, of the rudiments, and of the means of communication, the governments, having their agents everywhere, by means of decrees, church sermons, the schools, the newspapers inculcate on the masses the wildest and most perverse conceptions about their advantages, about the relation of the peoples among themselves, about their properties and intentions; and the masses, which are so crushed by labour that they have no time and no chance to understand the significance and verify the correctness of those conceptions which are inculcated upon them, and of those demands which are made on them in the name of their good, submit to them without a murmur
50. When all was ready the engineer began to explain the plans in detail, elaborating the explanation with simpler explanation, getting through the sections one by one with slow precision, repeating his elucidation of black lines, red lines, and green lines, of the length, breadth, and numbers of the piles, of the soil, subsoil, and sub-subsoil, that received them; all this in the manner of one who is instructing a child in the rudiments of engineering science, for he had made up his mind that Garstin would want a lot of instructing
