half-learning

Years are spent by most upper-class boys and girls in half-learning several languages which they will never use, in acquiring the technique of the piano, or of some other art which they will never learn to practice with proficiency.

Problems of Conduct Durant Drake

Returned to his own country, his acquired half-learning made him wholly dissatisfied with his Government, with his religion, and with himself.

Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete Various

Returned to his own country, his acquired half-learning made him wholly dissatisfied with his Government, with his religion, and with himself.

Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various

He should not be content with half-learning it, but should go to work in earnest until it becomes his natural method of breathing.

The Hindu-Yogi Science Of Breath William Walker Atkinson 1897

Returned to his own country, his acquired half-learning made him wholly dissatisfied with his Government, with his religion, and with himself.

Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud (Being secret letters from a gentleman at Paris to a nobleman in London) — Volume 6 Lewis Goldsmith 1804

Returned to his own country, his acquired half-learning made him wholly dissatisfied with his Government, with his religion, and with himself.

Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud (Being secret letters from a gentleman at Paris to a nobleman in London) — Complete Lewis Goldsmith 1804