self-acquired

/M.B.A. from Harvard, experience as a CEO and a self-acquired net worth of $200-$250 million to run our nation?

Corey Stern: America's Got 99 Problems and Needs Someone from the 1 (%) Corey Stern 2012

An accompaniment to this is a fierce emphasis on, and respect for, education, especially of the self-taught or self-acquired variety.

Rich Man’s Burden 2006

An accompaniment to this is a fierce emphasis on, and respect for, education, especially of the self-taught or self-acquired variety.

Rich Man’s Burden 2006

An accompaniment to this is a fierce emphasis on, and respect for, education, especially of the self-taught or self-acquired variety.

Rich Man’s Burden 2006

An accompaniment to this is a fierce emphasis on, and respect for, education, especially of the self-taught or self-acquired variety.

Rich Man’s Burden 2006

The concept of the wise fool, in opposing a wisdom that is natural or god-given to one that is self-acquired, is the most sophisticated and far-reaching of those primi - tivistic ideas with which man has questioned his own potentialities and achievements.

WISDOM OF THE FOOL WALTER KAISER 1968

The reasoning, however, is fallacious; for man labors under a self-acquired inability.

The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination 1959

Yielding, finally, to my reiterated entreaties, he threw himself upon his bed, and, as I had some private business to settle, I left him to the care of our officious hostess, who was only too happy to find one on whom she could display her self-acquired knowledge of the healing art.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 6, June, 1862 Devoted To Literature and National Policy Various

He was not uneducated, although his schooling was very slight; but he was a good reader, was very skilful in arithmetic, and wrote an excellent hand -- an accomplishment for which our family are not celebrated -- beside possessing a hoard of self-acquired information upon different subjects.

The Story of a Summer Or, Journal Leaves from Chappaqua Cecilia Pauline Cleveland

The first thing was to bring people on to the very centre and to get there at once -- to get men away from the accumulation of occasional and self-directed virtues, from the self-sustained life, from self-acquired righteousness, and to bring them to face the fact of

The Jesus of History T. R. Glover