acquirement of knowledge

What again shall we say of the actual acquirement of knowledge?

After Oddi's time the role of local, first hand scientific observations lost more and more importance due to growing literacy and acquirement of knowledge from books.

It is the want of domestic taste, and not the acquirement of knowledge, that takes women out of their families, and tears the smiling babe from the breast that ought to afford it nourishment.

Edward Shelley's The people's grammar; or English grammar without difficulties for 'the million (1848), for example, was written for "the mechanic and hard-working youth, in their solitary struggles for the acquirement of knowledge."

And it is so strong that men whose whole lives have been given to the systematic acquirement of knowledge have been driven by it to overstep the limits of their programme in search of still more knowledge.

Retiring in his feelings, averse to all ostentation, he abandoned the law, a profession regarded as the common highway to distinction; instead he took a course of life which best agreed with his peaceful disposition: the acquirement of knowledge.

Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge, and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow.