learnèdly

Example Sentences

• "Low were the whispers, manifold the rumours: / Some said he had been poison’d by Potemkin; / Others talk’d learnèdly of certain tumours, / Exhaustion, or disorders of the same kin;"
• "Great Mountjoy! were that name sincerely scann’d, / Mysterious hieroglyphics would explain; / Each letter’s allegory grace the hand / By whom the sense should learnèdly be drawn, / To stop the dull conceits of wits profane; / Diving into the depth of hidden art, / To give but due to each deserving part."
• "When, however, it is quite undeniable that the vast body of the clergy of the Establishment, with very few isolated exceptions,—such exceptions must always obtrude themselves while the world is a fallen world,—are energetically pursuing their sacred calling as the pastors of all the parishes; when it is matter, and increasingly, of daily notice, that they are diligently seeking the highest welfare of the flocks committed to their care; that they are doing this studiously, learnèdly, prayerfully, devotedly, “in labours, in watchings, in much patience; by pureness, by knowledge, by long-suffering, by kindness; by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned; by the Word of Truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left; through honour and dishonour, through evil report and good report:”[…]"
• "Rather wolde God our love than all our witte, / Faith than Philosophie, / The inarticulate pray’r that liftes with it / The soule eternallie, / Than Schoolmen’s lytell thought learnèdly writte."
• "While he went on, and learnèdly perplext / The genuine Meaning of his chosen Text, / I cast my Eyes above him, and explor’d / The Dove-like Form upon the Sounding-board."
• "Say, wilt thou follow me to my high house, / Whose silence hears the nibbling of a mouse, / And, with one finger at thy temple, sit / Learnèdly when the shaded lamp is lit, / Exiled and happy in the fireside nook, / Calm idol with thy elbows on the Book / And one hand on its clasp?"