"Acquist" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... new acquist Of true experience from this great event, With peace and consolation hath dismissed, And calm of mind, all ...
— Milton • Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh
... at Chatham, his Chair at the London University, his partnership with Sir William Thomson and Mr. Varley in many ingenious patents, his growing credit with engineers and men of science; and he is to bear in mind that of all this activity and acquist of reputation, the immediate profit was scanty. Soon after his marriage, Fleeming had left the service of Messrs. Liddell and Gordon, and entered into a general engineering partnership with Mr. Forde, a gentleman ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 9 • Robert Louis Stevenson |
