Sentence examples for men of learning from inspiring English sources

Despite his modest education he read widely, developed scholarly tastes, and associated with men of learning.

He commissioned such great artists as Sandro Botticelli and Antonio del Pollaiuolo and pensioned such eminent men of learning as Bartolomeo Platina.

He seldom left the city but corresponded with such men of learning as John Evelyn, Sir William Dugdale, and John Aubrey.

They are active in all branches of learning and have earned the honorary title of shastri (Sanskrit: "men of learning"), or, in Tamil, ayyar, which often follows their names.

They became popular meeting places where men of learning often gathered to converse, play chess or backgammon-type games, sing and dance, listen to music, discuss politics and news of the day, and smoke and drink.

His teachings, however, particularly the pantheistic overtones of his mystical doctrines, aroused the opposition of the established and orthodox ʿulamāʾ ("men of learning"), who persuaded Malik aẓ-Ẓāhir to have him put to death.

This estimate is based not only on the excellence of his work but also on his eminence as a Zen monk and man of learning.

So what do Ewen and Ewen have to add? "Lawrence Summers was hardly the first man of learning to propose that women were inherently inferior to men".

Columban's works include poems, letters, sermons, a rule, and a penitential, proving him a man of learning acquainted with Latin and Greek classics; his writings were edited by G.S.M. Walker, with an introduction and English translation (1957).

Naipaul's grandfather became a village pandit — a holy man and a man of learning — but he died young, and whatever prosperity the family had attained was soon lost.

But I experienced the pleasure a teacher must feel when he watches a kid with promise outgrowing the vagaries and muddles of immaturity (and the jitters of too many coffee-fueled all-nighters) and coming into his own as a young man of learning, reason and sense.