Sentence examples for learned gentlemen from inspiring English sources

At the time, Monteverdi was employed at the court of the powerful Gonzaga family in Mantua, northern Italy; his favola in musica, as he called it, was premiered under the aegis of Francesco Gonzaga and the Accademia Degli Invaghiti, a typical Renaissance society of learned gentlemen.

It was a fashionable philosophy, appealing to learned gentlemen and highborn ladies alike, and it was one of the few philosophical alternatives to the Scholasticism still being taught in the universities.

Maybe we should be grateful to the learned gentlemen because it would have been so easy to make a connection between Bin Hammam's distribution of cash-packed envelopes to prospective backers in his recently aborted challenge to Fifa president Sepp Blatter and the selection of Qatar above such rivals as the United States and Australia.

In contrast, as "Master Great Man" denounces, the learned "gentlemen" of polite society are no better than the lice that dwell in one's pants.

In a lengthy statement, Johnston repeated many of his earlier misgivings about the investigation but added that he was "not concerned about the impartiality of the learned gentlemen who will adjudicate on this matter".

Indeed, the right honourable and learned gentleman has not been frank with the House.

The right honourable and learned gentleman is sufficiently aware of the seriousness of it to start his speech today with collusion.

We have heard from the right honourable and learned gentleman today a statement which I am quite certain all the world will read with astonishment.

The right honourable and learned gentleman gave the House the impression that at no time had he ever warned Israel against attack on Egypt.

His attack on a clause of the Finance Act 1930 drew much praise from both Liberal and Conservative politicians, including Winston Churchill, who said that "I have rarely heard a speech more precisely directed at the object under debate, more harmoniously attuned to the character of Committee discussion, than the excellent statement the Honourable and learned Gentleman has just made".

The inmates have also learned a gentleman's sport.