He sends before him Caius Volusenus with a ship of war, to acquire a knowledge of these particulars before he in person should make a descent into the island, as he was convinced that this was a judicious measure.
Returning to London for two years in 1744, he began to acquire a knowledge of the old masters and an independent style marked by bold brushwork and the use of impasto, a thick surface texture of paint, such as in his portrait of Captain the Honourable John Hamilton (1746).
After spending the latter part of 1862 and the early months of 1863 in London so as to acquire a knowledge of English, he began a lifelong career as a schoolteacher, first in provincial schools (Tournon, Besançon, and Avignon) and later in Paris.
The subject of metaphysics is being in all its amplitude in order to acquire a knowledge of the cause of being that will be correspondingly unbounded.
These things being achieved, while Caesar had every reason to suppose that Gaul was reduced to a state of tranquillity, the Belgae being overcome, the Germans expelled, the Seduni among the Alps defeated, and when he had, therefore, in the beginning of winter, set out for Illyricum, as he wished to visit those nations, and acquire a knowledge of their countries, a sudden war sprang up in Gaul.
Now, "prompted by an innatedesire to acquire a thorough knowledge of the birds of this happycountry, I formed the resolution, immediately on my landing, tospend, if not all my time in that study, at least all that portiongenerally called leisure, and to draw each individual of its naturalsize and coloring".
In this study, we followed an integrated approach based on the data collected by different analytical techniques (contact angle and colorimetric measurements, FT-IR analyses and ESEM-EDS analyses) to acquire a deeper knowledge of the behaviour of potential innovative water-repellents and their interaction with a stone support.
After establishing the indissoluble connection for Christians of Judaism with Christianity, the pope officially asked Christians to strive to acquire a better knowledge of the basic components of Judaism's religious tradition.
Given this premise, it is paramount that great efforts are made to acquire a detailed knowledge of the genetic structure of such materials, possibly on a whole-genome scale.
A distinctive feature of the program is the opportunity for students not only to gain advanced training in specific fields of religious studies, but also to acquire a basic knowledge of the world's major religious traditions and of the principal methods and theories employed in the study of religion.
Our web-based education program was useful in helping parents to acquire a basic knowledge of schizophrenia and discriminate correctly the symptoms of this disorder.
