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In literature, the term "training" appears in a remarkably versatile spectrum of contexts, reflecting diverse modes of human endeavor and development. It may denote the cultivation of artistic or practical skills, as in the refinement of a voice for performance or the development of musical aptitude ([1], [2]), or the disciplined regimen needed for physical, military, or even intellectual pursuits ([3], [4], [5]). Authors employ the word both in its literal sense—as in instructing a servant or soldier ([6], [3])—and metaphorically, to illustrate moral or cultural formation, as when training becomes a lifelong method of shaping one’s character and capacity for reason ([7], [8]). This dual usage underscores literature’s broader concern with the processes of education and self-improvement, whether through formal institutions, like colleges and academies ([9], [10]), or through the subtler, habitual exercises of daily life and thought ([11], [12]).
  1. The munificence of the commissary of stores exalted her socially, and gave her the opportunity of training her voice.
    — from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Cerfberr and Christophe
  2. The object of the musical training of the Arcadians.
    — from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius
  3. If in training soldiers commands are habitually enforced, the army will be well-disciplined; if not, its discipline will be bad.
    — from The Art of War by active 6th century B.C. Sunzi
  4. Ay, ay, a man who uses his throat altogether, can hardly give his legs a proper training.”
    — from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper
  5. Scientific thinking, 145-6 Sense training, 190-97 [Pg 228] Sequence, 2 ; cf. Consequence.
    — from How We Think by John Dewey
  6. His own good sense taught him that such a training of his servants was unjust and dangerous.
    — from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
  7. Is not one's early home the place where he should get his principal training for life?
    — from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden
  8. For as in the case of animals, so in that of men, training is successful only when you begin in early youth.
    — from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Studies in Pessimism by Arthur Schopenhauer
  9. Then he entered as a student the newly-founded Missionary Training College of the British Jews' Society, and remained there over two years.
    — from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein
  10. He believed that he could afford a college training and he got it.
    — from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden
  11. [Pg 157] PART THREE: THE TRAINING OF THOUGHT CHAPTER TWELVE ACTIVITY AND THE TRAINING OF THOUGHT
    — from How We Think by John Dewey
  12. Daily and hourly, during our whole life, we keep our senses in training for this end exclusively, and for its sake our experiences are accumulated.
    — from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

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