acquirement

At the period for which these hints are intended, the Modern Languages should form a portion of acquirement.

That must stand or fall by its intrinsic worth, not by the circumstances associated with its acquirement.

To obtain this evidence is worth more to any man or woman than any other purely mental acquirement can be.

There was some peculiar gift, or grace, or acquirement belonging without dispute to the one, and which the other lacked.

Another very extraordinary acquirement, and which the present writer has been witness to, is, Sword-swallowing.