| 单词 | unlettered |
| 例句 | One unlettered boy followed me back to my tent and begged me to write his letter for him. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Reality returned in the form of my rough, unlettered, and infinitely more admirable brother. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z He pried out the soap and put it and the brush in a bigger unlettered cup. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I memorized it: ‘The praise of the unlettered by the highly educated is one of the primary themes of “elitist” literature.’ Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Again I would read and wonder as only the naive and unlettered can read and wonder, feeling that I carried a secret, criminal burden about with me each day. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z As the rare designer with his background — an unlettered, self-supported middle-class Indian from Chennai — Mr. Velendra aims to change all that. In London, Cheetos Tans and a Codpiece Are in Fashion 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z Fairy tales originated in folklore, “not among an elite, but among the unlettered”, she writes. Enchanted, I’m sure 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z How could Shakespeare, the half-educated son of an unlettered provincial glove maker, have written all those masterpieces? Movie Review: ?Anonymous,? by Roland Emmerich - Review 2011-10-27T15:47:42Z And what an appalling set of implications is posited for the unlettered, however kindly of disposition, whatever their achievements in the humble reaches of the heart. Reading is overrated 2011-02-17T15:48:22Z Incompetent, unlettered, unskilled writers sell to unexacting editors. Harry Harrison, a Prolific Writer of Satiric Science Fiction, Dies at 87 2012-08-18T02:52:27Z His father was a coalminer and the household was, in an earlier parlance, unlettered. Stan Barstow obituary 2011-08-01T19:06:48Z Beginning with his first major publication, in 1751, Rousseau, too, defended unlettered folk and their simple ways. The Anti-Élite, Post-Fact Worlds of Trump and Rousseau 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z What distinguished this case from most others was what happened in the aftermath: Almost every single one of Forsyth’s 1,098 African-Americans — prosperous and poor, literate and unlettered — was driven out of the county. Review: ‘Blood at the Root,’ a Tale of Racial Cleansing Close to Home 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z There’s the local populist, who, with that canticle, wrote the first poem in the Italian vernacular and who devised the first nativity scene in order to make the Christmas story vivid for the unlettered. Looking for St. Francis 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z And while Dot may be unlettered, Ms. Ashford makes you appreciate the acuity of her insights into what George is and does. Review: ‘Sunday in the Park With George,’ a Living Painting to Make You See 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z Would a loving supreme being want the truth of religion to be plain even to unlettered people, in the simplest possible vernacular? Talking in tongues 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z In one indelible review, the conservative critic Hilton Kramer lamented the “spectacle of mandarin sensibilities masquerading as unlettered but lyrical stumblebums.” Perspective | Anger at Donald Trump may turn great artists into political cartoonists. It’s happened before. 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z Rendered on the page in glyph-laden phonetic spellings that are apt to confound the unlettered, these words take wing when released into sound. 9 must-listen audiobooks for Native American Heritage Month 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z In this tribal village, most parents are unlettered and unable to help their young children study at home. Covid-19: The Indian children who have forgotten how to read and write 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z Federal Judge Elmer Dundy ruled that “the Indian is a ‘person’ ” under the Constitution — but not without also referring to Native Americans as a “weak, insignificant, unlettered, and generally despised race.” Opinion | It’s long past time for our country to apologize publicly for what it did to Native people 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z He was not an unlettered man: In his years at school, Calhoun had written a master’s thesis on the historiography of Napoleon’s peninsular war and had attended a law seminar in Belgium. How a hardcore liberal lawyer joined the pro-Trump mob 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z “He suffers the pangs of poverty of intellect. His perception is clouded. . . . He’s an empty-headed, long-eared, bleary-eyed, awkward, untutored, unlettered, hopeless misprint.” Perspective | What’s in a name? For animals at the National Zoo, all sorts of considerations. 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z I doubt we’d be saddled with Trump had we not come to resemble him: way too materialistic, more than a bit narcissistic, unfocused, unlettered, infantile, even amoral. How the Iraq war and the Great Recession of 2008 paved the way for the Trump catastrophe 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z In “Native Country,” she is most explicitly her mother, Elvira, the unlettered and domineering family matriarch. Cherríe Moraga’s memoir reconsiders ‘home’ in a post-colonial landscape 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z A brief tutorial for the Fortnite unlettered: Think “The Hunger Games,” but with less gore and more contestants. Opinion | Prince Harry Wants to Ban Fortnite? Here’s What He’s Missing 2019-04-06T04:00:00Z While I strongly reject the crude charge that Trump supporters are stupid, I must say that more than a few of them demonstrate that they are unlettered. Opinion | Trump deserves his bad reviews 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z “The unlettered Negro,” Hurston wrote, was “the Negro’s best contribution to American culture.” Why the extraordinary story of the last slave in America has finally come to light 2018-05-26T04:00:00Z In the tradition of both black and white southern folk preaching, ministers usually spoke extemporaneously to unlettered congregants, who expected the Spirit of God to impart messages of encouragement and hope. The making of Martin Luther King’s speeches 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z His description of Stephen Miller, a White House policy adviser, as an unlettered lightweight is inaccurate and mean. “Fire and Fury” confirms the dysfunction at the heart of the presidency 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z For an “unlettered bum,” as Mr. Breslin called himself, he left an estimable legacy of published work, including 16 books, seven of them novels, plus two anthologies of his columns. Columnist Jimmy Breslin, bard of the New York streets, dies at 88 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z August, like Arthur Miller, honored the heroic, unlettered, tenacious descendants of pioneers and immigrants. 'Fences' playwright August Wilson set the stage for great theatrical moments — including a very personal one 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z When the unlettered say, “it’s history,” what they mean is that it’s over and done with. Editorial Roundup: Recent editorials in Arkansas newspapers 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z Dickens Leonardo, a dalit student named after great cultural figures by unlettered parents, was one of the last people to speak to Rohith before his death. India's caste system: ‘They are trying to erase dalit history. This is a martyrdom, a sacrifice’ 2016-01-24T05:00:00Z How may unlettered Ishmael hope to read the awful Chaldee of the sperm whale’s brow? Researchers name new whale species after mythic creature from Moby-Dick 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z Today, we have been reminded of this fact with the loud and unlettered bloviating of Donald Trump, who, lucky for him, was blessed with both an inherited fortune and an aptitude for ruthlessness. Donald Trump is America: Why the bloviating billionaire is the national embarrassment we deserve 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z The “unlettered” people he grew up with, especially his grandparents, he said, withstood “the most difficult circumstances with a dignity that’s unmatched in this city.” Thomas concedes that ‘we the people’ didn’t include blacks 2012-09-16T21:25:00Z As time goes on we shall receive from England much of the good we have left behind; our colony will grow and prosper; we shall not be crude, unlettered. A Pilgrim Maid A Story of Plymouth Colony in 1620 2012-04-02T02:00:24.090Z When the service was over, in respectful quiet despite their arrogant carriage, these unlettered men rose and passed out to loiter in the Cathedral for a half hour. Heroic Spain 2012-03-26T02:00:38.797Z Though they had had such records, they were unlettered men, and the ancient tongues would have been dead indeed to them, had they attempted an interpretation by their own efforts. Joseph Smith as Scientist A Contribution to Mormon Philosophy 2012-03-12T03:00:27.817Z In Plutarch the pride of race is genial and pleasant; in Celsus it takes another form—that of contempt for the barbarian and the unlettered. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z In many colonial dooryards it was the only shrub—known both to lettered and unlettered folk as Laylock, and spelt Laylock too. Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth 2012-03-06T03:00:22.850Z I much question whether any one who knows optics, however religious he may be, can feel in equal degree the pleasure or reverence which an unlettered peasant may feel at the sight of a rainbow. Modern Painters. Vol. III (of V) Containing Part IV. Of Many Things 2012-02-20T03:00:15.843Z There is much of Arcadian gentleness among these unlettered people. Heroic Spain 2012-03-26T02:00:38.797Z Among the names "spelled by the unlettered muse" upon the stones around us we see those of Goddard, Perry, Gould, Cooper, Geer, and many others familiar to our American ears. A Literary Pilgrimage Among the Haunts of Famous British Authors 2012-02-17T03:00:36.500Z You can, without much difficulty, construct a dialogue between a blacksmith and a student, showing how the unlettered man exhibits his ignorance and the scholar his taste. How to Write a Novel A Practical Guide to the Art of Fiction 2012-02-17T03:00:36.070Z There is much academic disapproval of one who in defiance of all law insists on enjoying poetry after his own "undressed, unpolished, uneducated, unpruned, untrained, or rather unlettered, or ratherest unconfirmed fashion." The Gentle Reader 2012-02-15T03:00:37.463Z Doubtless the truculent and unlettered samurai could scarcely be expected to be logical. The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan 2012-02-14T03:00:23.467Z This ignorant driver of camels, this poor, unknown, unlettered boy, unassisted by God, unenlightened by supernatural means, drove the armies of the true cross before him as the winter's storm drives withered leaves. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:04:02.353Z But in Britain its tradition had been lost to a great extent in the onrush of the rude, unlettered Anglo-Saxons. England 2012-02-09T03:00:12.957Z Like other unlettered peasants, Gallegos whet their wits on rhyming riddles. Spanish Highways and Byways 2012-02-06T03:00:15.617Z How did these quiet, stolid, unlettered Lancashire peasant-women become possessed of inventions worthy of the grimmest of German tales of diablerie? Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland 2012-02-06T03:00:14.350Z They were, in her estimation, mere unlettered toilers—simple, unimaginative, brown-faced men who thought about nothing but the seasons and the price of wheat. A Prairie Courtship 2012-02-01T03:00:12.830Z How great this effectiveness is may be judged by the continued popularity of "Hamlet" as a stage performance even before unlettered auditors. Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z This was Lincoln's standing and this its warrant among all thoughtful men, alike the learned and the unlettered. Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians 2012-01-17T03:00:21.120Z The mass of Christians was still drawn from the lower ranks, and was accordingly unlettered. Church and State as Seen in the Formation of Christendom 2012-01-11T03:00:30.173Z The two sailors were not altogether unlettered men, but lack of practice had left them slow at deciphering handwriting, and Guert seemed to have a knack of it. The Noank's Log A Privateer of the Revolution 2012-01-09T03:00:21.297Z She was an ignorant, unlettered girl, of some nineteen or twenty years of age. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 2011-12-27T03:00:07.217Z The unlettered must ever love or hate what is nearest him, and, for lack of perspective, think his own fist the size of the sun. Modern Essays 2011-12-13T03:00:25.577Z These peoples were all fierce, warlike, free, unlettered barbarians. A History of the Philippines 2011-12-12T03:00:36.870Z Thomas Wanless and his friends were rude and unlettered, but they had definite ideas enough, and a wild sense of justice. The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant 2011-11-27T03:00:11.777Z What of George Fox who, if unlettered, was a born writer no less than Bunyan? Our Philadelphia 2011-11-23T03:00:41.453Z There are unlettered persons in Seville who will assure you that Pilate lived in the house. The Story of Seville 2011-11-15T03:00:17.143Z This, the simplest and most unlettered Christian can understand and enjoy. Notes on the Book of Genesis 2011-11-05T02:00:10.317Z Sitting on the girls' benches, conspicuous among the schoolgirls of unlettered origin, by that look which rarely fails to betray hereditary and congenital culture, was a young person very nearly of my own age. Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes 2011-11-01T02:00:25.563Z Hoping that the name of Agrippa as a bankrupt had not penetrated into the fields he journeyed into the country-side of Syria and tried an oil-merchant, a rustic, rich and unlettered. Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians 2011-10-28T02:00:22.437Z "By the grace of God," says a statute of Sienese painters, "we are the men who make manifest to the ignorant and unlettered the miraculous things achieved by the power and virtue of the Faith." The Story of Florence 2011-10-20T02:00:24.237Z Vainly, unlettered youth, you come And scrutinise each painted word, No aid those arms all fixed and dumb, To your perplexity afford. A Century of Emblems 2011-10-08T02:00:24.280Z The most unlettered saint, if only he has affection for the person of the Lord Jesus, can entertain the most intense desire to see him; and this is the Church's hope. Notes on the Book of Genesis 2011-11-05T02:00:10.317Z They were a simple strain of people at the first, unlettered, only slightly touched with the Spanish civilization, but with something of a tradition of the arts of old Peru and of its lost philosophy. The Strand Magazine, Volume XXVII, Issue 160, April, 1904 2011-09-21T02:00:33.023Z These proved exceedingly useful among the unlettered Indians, and they soon learned to carry on conferences among themselves in the absence of the missionary. The Life and Times of Kateri Tekakwitha The Lily of the Mohawks 2011-09-16T02:00:21.817Z Now and then we overtake some heavily-laden freighter, low in the water, pounding outwards on its hazardous journey, its plain unlettered sides showing that it is a vessel of the Allies. 'Green Balls' The Adventures of a Night-Bomber 2011-09-13T02:00:34.080Z They are the freethinkers of the unlettered classes, however, and their ideas no doubt have some influence in preparing these classes for socialist principles. Contemporary Socialism 2011-09-10T02:00:28.673Z The "unlettered and ignorant" fisherman of Galilee, therefore, had obviously attained an age when habits of thought and expression have become fixed, and when a new language cannot without great difficulty be acquired. Supernatural Religion, Vol. II. (of III) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation 2011-08-30T02:00:31.587Z "The style is that of a man unlettered, but with natural refinement and delicate sense of fitness, the purity of whose heart enters into his language." John Greenleaf Whittier His Life, Genius, and Writings 2011-08-26T02:00:22.667Z The fur industry, however, depended upon the keen perception of an awkward, unlettered, German boy for its growth and quick development. Colorado?The Bright Romance of American History 2011-08-25T02:00:28.183Z His system was mild, progressive, and designed for the general good of the people over whom he presided; in fact, it was too mild for the turbulent, unlettered masses of the provinces of Brazil. Equatorial America Descriptive of a Visit to St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes, and the Principal Capitals of South America 2011-08-05T02:00:46.387Z She is a calm and patient sufferer, however, and it does one good to see how trouble can be borne by the most unlettered and uninformed, when the spirit is right. Memoir of Mary L. Ware, Wife of Henry Ware, Jr. 2011-08-02T02:00:25.157Z It may be that the unlettered Catholic cannot cope with these arguments in detail; cannot tell whether it is that the facts are untrue, or that the logic is unsound. The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, March 1865 2011-07-30T02:00:17.007Z But if they were unlettered and superstitious were the people in those days better than now? Rome 2011-07-24T02:00:10.227Z But the people, the vast majority, unlettered and silent, cannot tell us what they believed, or what were their favourite forms of adoration. Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z The principle is expressed by a word which is always pronounced in one way by the cultured, and in quite a different way by the unlettered. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 4, September 1893 2011-07-21T02:00:22.737Z To such an extent is this the case, that even an unlettered Reader is competent to judge them. The Revision Revised 2011-07-15T02:00:18.897Z The Catholic Church has provided a defence for all; for the unlettered mechanic, no less than the learned theologian. The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, March 1865 2011-07-30T02:00:17.007Z The "Book of the Art," with its rough hideous drawings of the things represented by the lottery numbers—one to ninety—is the only book which the unlettered Italian can read. Rome 2011-07-24T02:00:10.227Z They may be uncouth, unlettered, uncultured, and reared in the backwoods, but they can look up with Job and say, "He maketh my heart soft." The Palm Tree Blessing 2011-07-11T02:00:05.463Z We crossed the river below this isolated cliff, and landed at some cavernous rocks on the Illinois side, which the boatmen, with the usual propensity of unlettered men, called the Devil's Oven. Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas 2011-07-10T02:00:18.883Z The settlers were in the main a frugal, industrious, unlettered, religious people. The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 2011-07-06T02:00:47.077Z It is not surprising, therefore, that the simple-minded and unlettered mariners of Palos viewed the order of the crown as a sentence of destruction on all who might be fated to obey it. Mercedes of Castile The Voyage to Cathay 2011-06-14T02:00:24.670Z They were rude and unlettered, while he was an educated man, capable of seeing things not always revealed to others. If Any Man Sin 2011-06-12T02:00:05.887Z He was proud of his friend—proud of the impression he had made among the rude unlettered men with whom he was forced by the conditions of frontier democracy to associate on terms of equality. Gabriel Conroy 2011-06-08T02:00:19.217Z It is the more remarkable because, generally speaking, butterflies do not attract the notice of the unlettered people, even as they did not attract the notice of the objective and practical Greeks. Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) 2011-05-28T02:00:21.687Z The man, ignorant, unlettered, and uncultured as he was, felt the mighty inspiration; and he stood passively for a few minutes surveying the scene lying before him. The Last of the Vikings 2011-05-09T02:00:04.200Z She was a poor, unlettered woman, but next to God, she loved her church. Overshadowed A Novel 2011-05-07T02:00:24.483Z They passed from the region of the known and the recorded into the vagueness of unlettered tradition. True and Other Stories 2011-04-26T02:00:27.117Z Designed, as it was, to expose the miseries of freethinking in women, its reasoning tends rather to stagger the unlettered moralist than to confute intellectual scepticism. Letters on the Improvement of the Mind, Addressed to a Lady 2011-04-19T02:00:19.607Z A boy held a lantern to a crumpled paper, from which the unlettered coxcomb pretended to sing. She's All the World to Me 2011-04-09T02:00:16.923Z Sigurd I quickly espied, standing with another group of the old stock, rude, unlettered, and primitive in habit and dress. The Last of the Vikings 2011-05-09T02:00:04.200Z They sought to render knowledge accessible to unlettered readers, or to please an open-air audience with stirring and romantic narratives. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z She was even courteous in her unlettered way. The Hills of Refuge A Novel 2011-04-09T02:00:10.530Z A boy whose black eyes danced with a mischievous twinkle held a crumpled paper upside down before the gardener, and from this inverted text and score the unlettered cox-comb pretended to play and sing. The Deemster 2011-04-08T02:00:08.197Z You whom I have sheltered and fed, lumpish mooncalf, unlettered bumpkin! The MS. in a Red Box 2011-04-07T02:00:20.313Z "It is the caprice of an unlettered fellow, who would, perhaps, care more for a tobacco-pouch than for my 'Book of the Four Gospels.'" Luttrell Of Arran Complete 2011-04-01T02:00:31.290Z These great qualities Alberti -215-placed freely at the service of the unlettered laity. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z The unlettered, but intelligent maiden, knew, moreover, that the cavalier was a man of peculiar inclinings—that is, one who was suspected of not being loyal to the king. The White Gauntlet 2011-03-30T02:00:16.130Z That is a vicious and defective if not radically false mental training which leaves its subject no better qualified for any useful calling than though he were unlettered. What I know of farming: a series of brief and plain expositions of practical agriculture as an art based upon science 2011-03-29T02:00:08.937Z Okrent rightly scolded us for sometimes seeming to look down our urban noses at the churchgoing, the gun-owning and the unlettered. First: Traditional News Outlets ? Living Among the Guerrillas 2011-03-25T15:57:06Z The Lancaster company's captain, Matthew Smith, was soldierly and good-looking, but unlettered and turbulent. The Road to Paris 2011-03-07T03:00:11.103Z We have already seen that his chief motive to composition was utility and that he recognized the need of bringing the results of learning within the scope of the unlettered laity. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z It is not necessary I should make any confession to you of my unlettered ignorance, nor own how deplorably deficient I am in every branch of knowledge or acquirement. The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I 2011-03-03T03:00:56.130Z It is generally recognized that, as a rule, females are more usually unlettered than males. Jewish Immigration to the United States from 1881 to 1910 Studies in History, Economics and Public Law, Vol. LIX, No. 4, 1914 2011-03-01T03:00:45.597Z Both were unlettered but, nevertheless, very pious people. The Negro in the South His Economic Progress in Relation to his Moral and Religious Development 2011-02-27T03:00:29.010Z A poor, untutored, unlettered woman, who has not learned the art of controlling her feelings. Friends I Have Made 2011-02-25T03:01:14.587Z In other respects he was an ignorant and unlettered man; his only accomplishments being a little reading and writing. The Thistle and the Cedar of Lebanon 2011-02-20T03:00:13.767Z I need not say how superior all these gifts make her to your humble and unlettered correspondent. The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I 2011-03-03T03:00:56.130Z The unlettered savage has his craving for poetry satisfied in his dancing, and war cries, in religion and tribal customs. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z The portraits and woodcuts published with these volumes are duplicated by the insertion of unlettered proofs on India paper. A Catalogue of Books in English Later than 1700 (Vol 3 of 3) Forming a portion of the library of Robert Hoe 2011-02-16T03:00:32.387Z And the mere fact that he knows them well will give him a conscious strength and pardonable feeling of superiority that the unlettered youth cannot have. Literature for Children 2011-02-02T03:00:21.560Z As well say that the average unlettered reader finds the Bible dull and commonplace. Comfort Found in Good Old Books 2011-01-31T03:00:11.907Z The book contains xi+116+3 pages of Music Figures, crown octavo, bound in dark unlettered cloth. Johann Sebastian Bach 2011-01-26T03:00:27.060Z This is natural enough among an unlettered people, and one which can only rise to the level of the surrounding civilization by forgetting its ancient language. Basque Legends With an Essay on the Basque Language 2011-01-11T03:00:33.670Z How beautiful is it, my boy, to see in the uncouth, unlettered slave, a spirit of piety so shiningly practical. The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. Series 2 2010-12-28T03:00:18.560Z Dead indeed he might be; for no link now existed between him and his youth, unlettered in anything but the perfection of a beautiful love. The Tower of Oblivion 2010-12-20T17:11:53.787Z Only a savage—untutored, unlettered; but yet a man made in God’s own image, and with the same passions as ourselves. Original Penny Readings A Series of Short Sketches 2010-12-20T17:11:48.837Z You’ll find a lavish of rattlesnakes—and a few unlettered humans. The Law of Hemlock Mountain Meantime, German propaganda in Russia was couched in irreproachable Russian and calculated to appeal to the educated and the unlettered alike. The Story of the Great War, Volume VII (of VIII) American Food and Ships; Palestine; Italy invaded; Great German Offensive; Americans in Picardy; Americans on the Marne; Foch's Counteroffensive. Those who lived in the remote ages antecedent to the Christian era probably knew as much of natural history as the unlettered peasant of our own age and country. Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History They are still, with very few exceptions, a wandering and unlettered race, such as their fathers were when they first entered Britain. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 7 The men of wealth and birth detested him as a dangerous, rude, unlettered boor, who knew nothing of government or public business. Ancient Rome The Lives of Great Men Because of their artless simplicity it has been said that “the cultured man will appreciate them and the unlettered man can understand them.” The Story of Our Hymns Had it been on Earth, and the workman unionized and possibly unlettered, it would have had the fate of a dandelion that stands in the path of a growing subway tube. Old Friends Are the Best No, there must be a way for the cultured as for the unlettered; but was it a different way? The Call of the Town A Tale of Literary Life C�dmon, an unlettered Northumbrian peasant, was inspired by an Angel who came to him in his sleep and told him to "Sing." A Short History of England, Ireland and Scotland He is a pioneer boy, crude as pig-iron, unlettered and half barbaric. The Tempering The preacher was an unlettered layman, but his message so gripped the heart of the lad that he determined then and there to give his heart to God. The Story of Our Hymns Their names, their years, spelt by th' unlettered Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply; And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 The ethics of Christianity were a system of practical duty affecting the daily life of the most lowly and unlettered. Valeria The Martyr of the Catacombs Do not take offence," he wrote, "that in the beginning, the brethren were simple and unlettered. Saint Bonaventure The Seraphic Doctor Minister-General of the Franciscan Order St. Francis was unlettered, but his mind was poetic and imaginative, his nature gentle and humble. Tuscan Sculpture of the Fifteenth Century A Collection of Sixteen Pictures Reproducing Works by Donatello, the Della Robia, Mino da Fiesole, and Others, with Introduction But in that desolation and solitude they were strange and striking, and, like unlettered headstones in a churchyard, seemed to mark the graves of unknown dead. Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. I. Standing before the brilliant Charles V., the unlettered soldier told his story so modestly, so manfully, so clearly, that Charles shed tears at the recital of such awful sufferings, and warmed to such heroic steadfastness. The Spanish Pioneers Nearly all of them were fishermen and unlettered men; yet Christ chose them to build up His kingdom. To The Work! To The Work! Exhortations to Christians “You unlettered men sometimes strike upon rich veins.” Seven Frozen Sailors Apparently it dwells rather on the past than the present, and prefers the select and scholarly few to the unlettered many. The Religious Life of London How could he, a mere boy, ignorant, untravelled, unlettered, place his knowledge of mankind in competition with that of one so universally accomplished as Gabriel? Gerald Fitzgerald The Chevalier Francisco Pizarro, the unlettered but invincible conqueror of Peru, was fifteen years older than his brilliant cousin Cortez, and was born in the same province of Spain. The Spanish Pioneers Treasure up this sentiment, even though it comes from the lips of an unlettered catholic. Tales from the German. Volume II. The Lichtensteins, The Sorceress, The Anabaptist Was it possible that one, untaught and unlettered as he was, could think national freedom cheap at such a cost? Maurice Tiernay Soldier of Fortune A man might be a slave, unlettered and unenfranchised, yet fashion works of imperishable beauty. Captain Macedoine's Daughter Tricksters and mountebanks have pretended to such power in every age, but they have had no other dupes than the unlettered multitude.' Gerald Fitzgerald The Chevalier We demand the right to present our case and our cause to the unlettered mass, whose benightedness and ready prejudices continually invite exploitation. Conservation Through Engineering Extract from the Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior Because the unlettered are absurd, must the able cease to be religious? Coelebs In Search of a Wife The child meant to say, in its coarse, brutal, unlettered way, that the man had been absent too long. The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. Series 3 From Mark and Joel I have not heard for several months, and presume they will be sturdy but unlettered mechanics. Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part The scouts were moved only by an unlettered loyalty to the flag. The Price of the Prairie A Story of Kansas And mark you, this is no rude gathering of unlettered squires and rough men-at-arms. Cynthia's Chauffeur But it is unfortunately adduced to illustrate a position to which it can never apply, the vindication of an unlettered clergy. Coelebs In Search of a Wife How was it possible that unlettered men, who with difficulty can be made to apprehend obvious things, should understand such mysteries? History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition Instead of seeking, like most of his contemporaries, to be Greek, Roman, or mediæval by turns, he preferred trying on all the various tricks of thought and feeling which he remarked among his unlettered townsfolk. Euphorion Being Studies of the Antique and the Mediaeval in the Renaissance - Vol. I These are partly wholly independent, and partly in nominal dependence upon China; and proportionate to their independence is the unlettered character of their language, and the absence of Indian influences. The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies During an interval of official business he delivered two public orations, to give the unlettered conquerors of his country a taste of the disputations that flourished in the Attic schools. The History of Freedom This other race was an unlettered, unenlightened, and a pagan people. Civilization the Primal Need of the Race The American Negro Academy. Occasional Paper No. 3 The one gathering consisted of highly educated clergy and lawyers, the other of unlettered or self-taught Maoris; but the object of both gatherings was the same, and so were the principles which both professed. A History of the English Church in New Zealand It is singular, too, that the maxims which were always on the lips of the military savants, were often neglected by themselves and applied by the unlettered "irregulars." History of Morgan's Cavalry I found his talk eminently entertaining, with the charm that often goes with the talk of an unlettered person who knows much of life and of men. The Long Day The Story of a New York Working Girl As Told by Herself Tarleton remarked to one of these sisters that he understood Colonel Washington was an unlettered fellow, hardly able to write his name. Hero Stories from American History For Elementary Schools She, by the way, had herself been fetched in an equally unlettered transaction. A Letter Book Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing Not the Frisians, who were unlettered as long as they were Pagan, and Pagan until the tenth century. The Ethnology of the British Islands Some, the dull, unlettered and unskilled, were drafted up country to heavy manual labour at which they remained, while clever expert rogues found pleasant, congenial and often profitable employment in the towns. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" An unfortunate position, for many raw, unlettered Irishmen, or women, have mistaken it, owing to its environment, to be a statue of the Virgin Mary, and have devoutly crossed themselves, and said their “Aves.” Gossip in the First Decade of Victoria's Reign Look at the twelve apostles of Christ; they were all unlettered men. Sovereign Grace Its Source, Its Nature and Its Effects But these conditions are comparatively recent, so that millions of individuals to-day, even in the midst of great educational systems, remain entirely unlettered. History of Human Society Then, through the lips of plain, unlettered, toiling men there broke forth a new evangel upon the age which turned all the currents of the world. The Message and the Man: Some Essentials of Effective Preaching There was a sudden friendship sprung up between me and that poor unlettered infant of the desert. Notes in North Africa Being a Guide to the Sportsman and Tourist in Algeria and Tunisia He was as sensitive as a poet to the boorish brutality, and his poor, unlettered, garrulous mother made it worse for him by her boasting of his parts. The Bondboy Although the language of a song may not always be intelligible to the unlettered hearer, the spirit and sentiment are; especially when it appeals to the emotions through the charms of music. The Humourous Story of Farmer Bumpkin's Lawsuit Hill, when in business at the unlettered Queenhithe, found leisure to accumulate a fine collection of books, chiefly old poetry, which afterwards, when misfortune overtook him, was valued at 6000l. Books and Authors Curious Facts and Characteristic Sketches By this he will be known forever alike to the lettered and the unlettered. Select Poems of Thomas Gray Nor can the working people and the unlettered, though they were drawn to Whitman the man, be expected to respond to any considerable extent to Whitman the poet. Whitman A Study However puzzled Hartigan might be by the complexities of the female mind, the mental processes of the unlettered male were quite familiar to him and he showed his comprehension by a simple challenge. The Preacher of Cedar Mountain A Tale of the Open Country In his fourteenth year the supposed unlettered Israel was appointed caretaker in the Beth-Hamidrash, where the scholars considered him the proverbial ignoramus who "spells Noah with seven mistakes." Dreamers of the Ghetto Indeed, the interests of the home, protection of the children, and the morals and behavior of the community make the standard of even unlettered women one notch higher than that of their ignorant husbands. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV Such reflections arise unbidden in the mind; the most unlettered traveller is struck with the melancholy impression. Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 365, March, 1846 Their spirit is closer akin to unlettered humanity than to the over-intellectual and sophisticated products of the schools. Whitman A Study They are in the hands of priests and agitators, these poor unlettered peasants, and their blind voting, their inarticulate voice, translated into menace and mock patriotism. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule This unlettered maiden was poor, but high-bred, Oh, women of fashion far above you! The Loom of Life I have a good deal of feeling, sir, for the unlettered and the vulgar. Dr. Sevier Sirs, there came to me a young brother of mine, not such as I, a rude, unlettered sailor, but a gentleman—and college bred. Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer A Romance of the Spanish Main The people look askance at men who are above them without being of them, who have dropped the traits and attractions which they share with unlettered humanity. Whitman A Study How great must be priestly influence over the unlettered peasantry. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule There are lawyers, politicians, and physicians who tell “fortunes” and practise “witchcraft” of their own brand, decidedly more 57 harmful and disruptive than the visions of the unlettered clairvoyant. Mountain Meditations and some subjects of the day and the war General Beyers, the most dangerous foe the Union had in the rebellion, was a direct contrast to the rude and unlettered De Wet. The Story of the Great War, Volume III (of 8) History of the European War from Official Sources The love of fiction is common to the unlettered savage as well as to the civilized European, and has marked alike the ancient and the modern world. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII. No. 5. May 1848 Harrod, although unlettered, was a man of fine presence and many sterling qualities, and made a strong impress on his generation. Chronicles of Border Warfare or, a History of the Settlement by the Whites, of North-Western Virginia, and of the Indian Wars and Massacres in that section of the Indian Wars and Massacres in that section of the State The most unlettered peasant is a keen judge of character, and, given time, would modify his views. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule These unlettered savages executed their artifice with skill which would have done honor even to European diplomatists. Ferdinand De Soto, The Discoverer of the Mississippi American Pioneers and Patriots The charm of good manners is not a qualification belonging to any particular station in life, for, to the poor and unlettered oftimes may be traced deeds and actions that mark them as nature's noblemen. Social Life or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society Children wild and untaught, growing up to be fierce and unlettered like their fathers. Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 1 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome Why send your mothers, wives and daughters to the unwashed, unlettered, unthinking masses that carry popular elections? History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III The spectacle presented by plain, blunt, unlettered George Stephenson before the lawyers and members of the House of Commons was strange and interesting, and no wonder it has become historical. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 6 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History I am an unlettered man, being but a poor fool, as thou knowest, but I try to do my duty, and every Sunday I go to church in Carlisle city with my betters. Tales From Scottish Ballads The majority were unlettered, but earnest in their mental toiling for protection to life and equality before the law. Shadow and Light An Autobiography with Reminiscences of the Last and Present Century Information of the enemy and that of own forces, and assumptions where pertinent, are usually set forth in separate unlettered subparagraphs. Sound Military Decision True, the attention of his unlettered listeners never flags; but our sophisticated youngsters would soon weary, we fear, of any such repetition. Wigwam Evenings Sioux Folk Tales Retold Leave we the unlettered plain its herd and crop; Seek we sepulture On a tall mountain, citied to the top,15 Crowded with culture! Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning Why send your mothers, wives, and daughters suppliants at the feet of the unwashed, unlettered, unthinking masses that carry our elections in the States? History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II This prospect was rather too much for the simple comprehension of the unlettered negro boy, and he only rolled the whites of his eyes in mute astonishment. Watch and Wait or The Young Fugitives But to unlettered people who rarely get in touch with what is going on in the thick of things, “thinking it out” is no easy matter. Judith Lynn A Story of the Sea His father, the gardener, was a man of ambitious spirit, though quite unlettered; and, having himself often experienced the disadvantage of this condition, he resolved that his son never should. The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains The simple and unlettered have listened to his words of truth and been comforted. History of Education A very large majority of our petitioners are from the unlettered masses. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II The paths behind do not contain them; the simplicity of peasants and lowly communities is not merely unlettered. Child and Country A Book of the Younger Generation He himself knew well its importance, and he already anticipated its eventual general adoption; but being an unlettered man, he could not give utterance to the thoughts which brooded within him on the subject. Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson Ignorant and unlettered, he had studied neither theology nor the Scriptures; he was, moreover, a man of bad life, heartless, cruel and greedy. Saint Athanasius The Father of Orthodoxy It is a natural effort of roused sensibility in every gradation, from unlettered simplicity to the highest refinement. Original sonnets on various subjects; and odes paraphrased from Horace They extended the franchise to the unlettered multitude, because the danger which they apprehended came from the middle class, not from the lower. Lectures on the French Revolution When the thing known as Ignorance is established in a community, one is foolish to rush to the conclusion that the trouble is merely an unlettered thing. Child and Country A Book of the Younger Generation The unlettered Merovingian kings made use of monograms composed of the letters of their names; and, curiously, the illiterate monogram was destined to supersede the literate subscriptions. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" There are many men wholly unlettered, and some of whom have not proclaimed themselves followers of Christ, who have yet exerted great influence on the side of civilization. The Indian To-day The Past and Future of the First American Twelve years ago I opened one little primary school in a small unlettered heathen village. India's Problem, Krishna or Christ He has also the faith in tradition that makes an unlettered upper class narrow and obstructionist. William Shakespeare The uncivilized and the unlettered hand down everything by word of mouth. Negro Folk Rhymes Wise and Otherwise: With a Study It may be that the decision of so momentous a question should have been postponed for a year—two years; to a time when his mind should have had further possibilities for unlettered expansion. The Wonder But the context shows that it was the unlettered adult, not the juvenile, who was addressed. Children's Books and Their Illustrators I believe that the Catechism as preached by D. M. for the unlettered and simple will be published for the coming Frankfurt mass. Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church Both of them had harshly pompous voices—the proudly unlettered voices of the smoking compartment. Free Air Nor did this manner spring from indifference, or lack of sensibility; it was simply the way of the plain unlettered backwoods people of those days. The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865 Stingaree forgot the speech of the unlettered stockman; but his cry was too short to do worse than warn him. Stingaree He is no unlettered man, though in shew simple; for questionless, he has much in his budget, which he can utter too in fit time and place. Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters It is known that long poems, stories, and historical narratives have been preserved by unlettered peoples much below the civilized condition of the Peruvians. Ancient America, in Notes on American Archaeology Let me tell you that compared with a street canyon, a mountain canyon is simply dead, and yet these unlettered wild men——" "See here! Free Air The Sorbonne was charged "to examine minutely all books from Geneva, and no unlettered person was permitted to discuss matters of faith." The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 09 Books will have no savor for him; men of high attainments, unless their coffers brim with lucre, affect him no more than the company of the most unlettered oaf. The Arena Volume 4, No. 24, November, 1891 Through the stilted language of this somewhat unlettered Indian we catch faint glimpses of the poetic beauty with which the tradition glowed when actually related at the wigwam door. Indian Legends of Minnesota He had come openly contemptuous of the ranchers, thinking of them as rough, unlettered farmers who must necessarily stand in awe of him. Desert Conquest or, Precious Waters I don't know if you're firing these adjectives at me, but I don't know that I'm so much more unlettered—— You talked about taking French in your finishing-school. Free Air Here we have the artless journal of an unlettered sailor, written between decks, without the least notion that it would ever be read apart from his own family circle. The Voyage of the Oregon from San Francisco to Santiago in 1898 We are no more a simple Moslem city with the tastes of our fathers; and our women are no more satisfied to remain as they were, childish, ignorant, and unlettered. The Secret Witness Living their lives out on the sea, unlettered and unlearned, they had no knowledge of religious formularies. Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea But Jeanne was filled with fear and grave misgiving, for how was she, a poor, unlettered girl and the daughter of peasants, to lead armies and wield the sword of war? A Treasury of Heroes and Heroines A Record of High Endeavour and Strange Adventure from 500 B.C. to 1920 A.D. He was an unlettered hillbilly and, being ashamed of his own ignorance, he was shy toward other men. The Armed Forces Officer Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2 A forgotten people until yesterday, unlettered, content to wrest a meager living from the grudging soil, they built for themselves a nation within a nation. Blue Ridge Country The members of the Sublime Porte and other state officers, with but few exceptions, are unlettered men, who owe their elevation, to partiality or bribery. The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy When only ten years old, a tattered, bare-legged, unlettered lad, he joined "The great Trek" which in 1837 sought on the dangerous and dreary veldt beyond the Vaal a refuge from British rule. With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back Even the unlettered imitated Grigorieff in composing psalms and hymns, some specimens of which are to be found in Father Arsenii's collection. Modern Saints and Seers In their worst extremity, Private Fredericks, unlettered but a man of great common sense and moral power, became the doctor, cook and forager for the party. The Armed Forces Officer Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2 An unlettered soldier, Monluc, by virtue of his energy of character and directness of speech, became a most impressive and spirited narrator. A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. You might as well bring into one room unlettered natives of distant climes and expect them all to enter into a general conversation. Making a Garden of Perennials He belonged to the sect of the Baptists, and stands at the head of all unlettered men of genius—the most successful writer of allegory that any age has seen. A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges It has been given to the Tcheremis exclusively, because they are a poor, unlettered people, and cannot afford to keep up priests and churches. Modern Saints and Seers It does not require that the ignorant and unlettered negro shall vote. History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States An unlettered people may be learned in the word of God, and being made wise unto salvation, may present to the world no mean type of Christian life. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922 A Carthaginian nobleman, for example, should not ascertain the time of day by means of a gold watch, nor should an unlettered rustic speak in strains of eloquent poetry. Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism Have we not known some men more mighty, and more often victorious when they were plain and unlettered, than they were after years of culture? Broken Bread from an Evangelist's Wallet The unlettered Indian has no rich store of written history from which to draw his illustrations. Tecumseh A Chronicle of the Last Great Leader of His People; Vol. 17 of Chronicles of Canada God, who could do everything, who had all the universe at His command, loved her, the poor orphan, the unlettered drudge; penniless, despised, unattractive—God loved her, just as she was. For the Master's Sake A Story of the Days of Queen Mary Surely no Indian woman, wholly unlettered in the ways of the white man, good and true as she may have been, had brought him up to this high place on which he now stood. Shadows of Shasta I have come across the name of this unlettered negro prodigy many times since, with the substance of the facts already stated. Anti-Slavery Opinions before the Year 1800 Read before the Cincinnati Literary Club, November 16, 1872 The idea that this simple, unlettered, friendless "girl of the people" should so coolly brave him—him on whose words enraptured ears were wont to hang, at whose eloquence enthusiastic hundreds burst into applause! A Tame Surrender, A Story of The Chicago Strike My “wonder book” is again the key—it was to this I was indebted for ridding me of my fright, and once more giving me the advantage over my unlettered companion. Ran Away to Sea “Ah!” exclaimed the voice outside with an unmistakable accent of relief in its tone as it added, with unlettered eagerness: “It’s me—Bob!” The Flaw in the Sapphire There is something peculiar in this, that those unlettered, having once associated closely with negroes, drop into their dialect when speaking to them. The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills His recruits fairly idolized him, and in their rougher and more unlettered way, were equally earnest advocates of the suppression of the Rebellion by any and every means. Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac While scientific men, led by Liebig, the creator of the chemical theory of agriculture, often got on the wrong tack in their love of mere theories, unlettered agriculturists opened up new roads to prosperity. The Conquest of Bread Henry Crittenden, Elijah Butler, Mrs. Charles Bashears, and Simon Folsom were all good examples of unlettered, but natural orators, who found their widest sphere of usefulness in the activities of the church. The Choctaw Freedmen and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy In those few words that unlettered woman had said, what would—if men were but wise enough to hear and heed the great truth which she spoke—banish slavery from this continent forever! Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time His letters were the painful efforts of an unlettered mujik, as indeed he was. The Minister of Evil The Secret History of Rasputin's Betrayal of Russia But their importance to the unlettered people of the Middle Ages cannot be overestimated; and the incentive to magnificence of artistic conception was correspondingly great. Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1 This enunciation of the resurrection, so plainly made that the most unlettered could understand, must have offended any Sadducees present, for they emphatically denied the actuality of the resurrection. Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern Nothing is more common than erroneous punctuation in signs, and gross mistakes by the unlettered in the wording of the simplest printed matter. The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. He was unlettered, had never opened a book, and seemed to know little of the ways of men. The Arena Volume 4, No. 22, September, 1891 Here, in the midst of all the pomp and ceremony was an ordinary Russian peasant, as unlettered and as uncouth as Rasputin himself, and a personal attendant of his Majesty. The Minister of Evil The Secret History of Rasputin's Betrayal of Russia Ludlow wished she had said she did not know that instead of as, but he reflected that ninety Americans out of a hundred, lettered or unlettered, would have said the same. The Coast of Bohemia We are not justified in regarding him as unlettered or ignorant. Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern All around were the unlettered, turbaned memorials of the dead, and there was just this one bit of youth and love in the middle of that record of a thousand tragedies. VC — A Chronicle of Castle Barfield and of the Crimea She was old, Irish, unlettered, but as a royal duchess so was she deferred to in the Poor Boy's great house upon the avenue. If You Touch Them They Vanish O Gracious Lady, I have come here at thy bidding, though I am but a poor and unlettered wanderer, unfamiliar with palaces. The Minister of Evil The Secret History of Rasputin's Betrayal of Russia Ah, if Mr. Cragg were only that—a simple, unlettered countryman, as I thought him—I should know how to win his confidence. Mary Louise in the Country They were enraged that this unlettered mendicant should answer so boldly in their scholarly presence; but the man was more than a match for all of them. Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern Charles Lamb, on being asked how he distinguished his "ragged veterans" in their tattered and unlettered bindings, answered, "How does a shepherd know his sheep?" The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators The most primitive and unlettered peoples and tribes have always shown and still show this universal characteristic. The Short-story How needless is all the misery which this rude, unlettered tyrant is about to inflict! Aurelian or, Rome in the Third Century Yet, with whatever discouragement his design was attended, he ultimately triumphed over the pride of an unlettered people, and the difficulties of a defective language. Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity Both were unlettered, but, nevertheless, very pious people. History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens The other apostles were unlettered men; but he enjoyed the fullest scholastic advantages of the period. The Life of St. Paul It did not occur to him that the gratification of his wish might have involved war-paint and feathers, a semi-nude body, a wild unlettered life, and a predilection for raw meat and murder. The Rover of the Andes A Tale of Adventure on South America And who was this poor, humble, unlettered clerk? Bibliomania in the Middle Ages We began by carrying dinners to the sick and aged poor; then we went on to reading hymns and bits of Bible to the blind and unlettered. Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography To cross the ocean was no slight undertaking for unlettered and home-keeping people. Beginnings of the American People Christ had departed from the world, and those whom He had left to represent Him were unlettered fishermen and, for the most part, men of no intellectual mark. The Life of St. Paul The "Rules" are interlarded with scraps of poetry, somewhat after the manner of old Tusser, and bear the unmistakeable impress of a "plain, unlettered Muse." Notes and Queries, Number 181, April 16, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. Even in this it is a moribund remedy for infant flatulence, and is clung to only by unlettered nurses of a passing generation. Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses He put his other labours on one side and wrote a series of charming narratives to touch the unlettered and draw them from their passion for vodka, or Russian brandy, and their harmful dissipations. Heroes of Modern Europe Who and what was she, that such a man should stoop to accept her friendship; poor, unlettered girl that she was, while he was acknowledged as one of the leading intellects of the day? Big Game A Story for Girls It is certain she was all unlettered in love up to that hour. Little Novels of Italy Louise was as capricious as she was beautiful, as unlettered as she was charming, as superstitious as she was fascinating. Rabbi and Priest A Story The children of the village were generally playing near by, in the sand, with blocks and chips,—growing up as unlettered and ignorant as their parents. Culm Rock The Story of a Year: What it Brought and What it Taught There the passions shall revel unfettered, And the heart never speak but in truth, And the intellect, wholly unlettered, Be bright with the freedom of youth! The Bon Gaultier Ballads Moreover, as Professor Child points out, ‘oral transmission by the unlettered is not to be feared nearly so much as by minstrels, nor by minstrels nearly so much as modern editors.’ Ballads of Romance and Chivalry Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - First Series The Christian Church from the beginning included intellectual aristocrats side by side with the ignorant and unlettered. The Agony of the Church (1917) A long discussion followed, in which Mendel proved that the Jews, in spite of persecution, were really happier than the unlettered and uncultured Russians and morally far superior to them. Rabbi and Priest A Story St. Ambrose's and its intellectual lists and wordy contests, even its lofty abstruse thoughts—excellent things in their way, without which the unlettered world would become rude, sordid and narrow—faded into the background. A Houseful of Girls It was an august and learned assembly into which the unlettered girl was introduced, yet for two hours she answered all their questions with simple earnestness and shrewd wit. Historical Tales, Vol. 6 (of 15) The Romance of Reality. French. They were called "Lauds" and 23 they had a rude directness and unlettered force which the Latin hymns never possessed. Some Forerunners of Italian Opera But some corrupt the pronunciation of words, and yet it is not credible that the sacramental effect is hindered thereby; else unlettered men and stammerers, in conferring sacraments, would frequently do so invalidly. Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition His logic finally silenced the ravings of the unlettered and fanatical Jew-haters and the privileges once accorded were not repealed. Rabbi and Priest A Story In those few words, that unlettered woman had said what would—if men were but wise enough to hear and heed the great truth which she spoke—banish slavery from this continent forever! The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy It would be well if all others felt for their children as did this unlettered Gipsy. The Gipsies' Advocate or, Observations on the Origin, Character, Manners, and Habits of The English Gipsies The unlettered, the uncouth, the humble, the men unacquainted with eloquence are in this music in very body. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers Because simple and unlettered folk need to be taught by some sensible signs, for instance, pictures and the like. Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition What mattered it that she was a mere child, unlettered and unfit for the solemn duties of wife and mother? Rabbi and Priest A Story He showed that, if the loose methods of thought were to be continued, philosophy, instead of being the hand-maid of religion, would be unworthy the attention of the most unlettered man. History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology The point is that Riḍá, a man considered to be unlettered, was able, in an argument, to best such an erudite “Fourth Pillar.” Memorials of the Faithful What possible relation could exist between an Athenian philosopher and a helot, a Roman noble and a slave, a Pharisee proud of his meticulous knowledge of the law, and the common people who were unlettered? The Empire of Love Even Leff, uncouth and unlettered, extracted all that was possible from the words, and felt a delicate elation at the thought that so fine a creature could endure his society. The Emigrant Trail Even unlettered Machiavellis must have their flashes of inspiration, premonition, "hunch," or whatever you may choose to call it. A Pagan of the Hills Annie will fall in love, please God, with no unlettered, soulless booby! Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 440 Volume 17, New Series, June 5, 1852 Theresa herself has never deciphered its wild scrawls, being an unlettered person, but its bearer read it over to her until she knew it by heart every word. Strangers at Lisconnel It was enough for them to know that Jesus came from Nazareth and was unlettered; this produced in them violent scorn and antipathy. The Empire of Love The Church failed as an art-patron, and the walls of cloister and cathedral furnished no new Bible readings to the unlettered. A Text-Book of the History of Painting Incredible as it may seem, not a few of these were founded by unlettered peasants, whose sons and grandsons have become millionaires. The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, 1915 In it a somewhat saturnine horseman, a son of the sage-brush, unlettered but tutored much by life, had wooed and won a prim little schoolmistress from the East. Winner Take All A certain basket of peaches, a rare vegetable, little known to boarding houses, was on its way to me viâ this unlettered Johannes. The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IV. (of X.) He may have pursued this course by the intricate process of reasoning employed by educated men, or of intuition employed by the unlettered. Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro I had taken an instant liking for the Cordelier in question, a man who, grown grey in study, still preserved the cheerful, facile humour of a simple, unlettered countryman. The Well of Saint Clare Since the introduction of universal military service every unlettered recruit must learn to read and write. The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, 1915 But already the Utilitarian citadel had been more heavily bombarded on the other side by one lonely and unlettered man of genius. The Victorian Age in Literature You are, admittedly, unlettered; you are confessedly a chevalier of industry; personally you are exceedingly distasteful to me. Police!!! We conclude by saying that the fathers who came up out of slavery, unlettered and untrained, did well. Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro Her features were coarse, her frame robust, her mind totally unlettered, and her morals defective in that point in which female excellence is supposed chiefly to consist. Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 The military men and the civilians, the cultured and the unlettered, the official class and those in private life, all alike felt the strong pull upon their hearts of His presence. Quiet Talks on Following the Christ Be one ever so unlettered and ignorant, and dull, faith and heaven are to him as accessible as to the sage, savant and the genius. Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals They were proud of him, with that touching hero worship which is the tribute of unlettered men to those who represent their best. Old Kaskaskia The school-book, in the eyes of the unlettered slave, was a sort of fetich to which he attributed the power of the white man. Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro In the composition of such mythological subjects the unlettered Annibale was totally inadequate. Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects and Curiosities of Art (Vol. 3 of 3) What bade thee hear the voice and rise elate, Leave home and kindred and thy spicy loaves, To lead th' unlettered and despised droves To manhood's home and thunder at the gate? The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar When he found me a vagabond shepherd of the hills, a poacher, an unlettered savage, still his kindness did not fail. The Last Man They came from every side, from lettered and unlettered, from loom and dale, from school and university. Tales of the Ridings A lyric of the elder period in praise of wine and love, which forcibly illustrates the contempt felt by the student class for the unlettered laity and boors, shall be inserted here. Wine, Women, and Song Mediaeval Latin Students' songs; Now first translated into English verse He hath been a rude man, an unlettered man, and a sinner. Giles Corey, Yeoman A Play I had seen a small, rough, unlettered stone standing there, but did not before know its meaning. The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 4 He had had no desire to give up his unlettered liberty until that day on the haymow when he had his awakening. Ole Mammy's Torment But he was in reality an unlettered soldier of fortune, probably very much of the same type as some of Napoleon's rougher marshals, such as Augereau or Masséna. Political and Literary essays, 1908-1913 Its great essential doctrines and precepts are so plain that the unlettered reader, who brings to the work an honest heart, cannot fail to understand them. Companion to the Bible Historically, we first meet him coming forth from the Arabian desert, a rude unlettered herdsman, in intelligence, cultivation, and morality far below the tribes among whom he is thrown. The Ethics of George Eliot's Works Long's professional pride was hurt; the idea of being beaten at his own business by a pack of unlettered Asiatics made him sad. In the Roaring Fifties It is the same in its power to a Pascal, a Butler, a Liddon, as it is to the unlettered peasant, who can neither read nor write. The Discipline of War Nine Addresses on the Lessons of the War in Connection with Lent P: Among them are unlettered folk who know the Scripture not except from hearsay. Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side It gives even the unlettered Karen disciple, an eloquence in consolation, to which worldly philosophy is a stranger. Lives of the Three Mrs. Judsons Their name, their years, spelt by th' unlettered muse, The place of fame and elegy supply; And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3 Sorrow and Consolation The result is an octavo of forty-six pages, of pure and unsophisticated doctrines, such as were professed and acted on by the unlettered Apostles, the Apostolic Fathers, and the Christians, of the first century. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 He, though blind and unlettered, was yet the familiar friend and devout disciple of Master Gerard, and he became the first Rector of the House, being a good man and a comfortable. The Chronicle of the Canons Regular of Mount St. Agnes Their name, their years, spelt by the unlettered Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply; And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader They were but unlettered natives of the wild, yet their hearts responded readily to the concord of sweet sounds. The King's Arrow A Tale of the United Empire Loyalists Alien deities were therefore associated with local and tribal deities, those of the nomads with those of the agriculturists, those of the unlettered folks with those of the learned people. Myths of Babylonia and Assyria As to where and what Rome was, the unlettered heathen had but the dimmest conception. Historical Tales, Vol 5 (of 15) The Romance of Reality, German The warrior read the command and the unlettered men fell on their knees, each to a different god. The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt So they hastened; and coming to the harbour, they found an unlettered youth. The Latin & Irish Lives of Ciaran Translations Of Christian Literature. Series V. Lives Of The Celtic Saints He did not understand the vast difference between the unlettered person who commits a solecism and Pascal, the inventor of a new syntax. Musical Memories Their name, their years, spelt by th' unlettered Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply. Poems Every Child Should Know The What-Every-Child-Should-Know-Library No unlettered autocrat could have acted with less regard to the rights and proprieties of citizenship. Historical Tales, Vol 5 (of 15) The Romance of Reality, German The king's curiosities in the Tower Jewel-house generally fetched above the price fixed; the toys of art could please the unlettered minds that had no conception of its works. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 Not caring to lead him to the holy man, they returned and declared that they had found no one, save an unlettered youth who was wandering as a vagabond in the woods. The Latin & Irish Lives of Ciaran Translations Of Christian Literature. Series V. Lives Of The Celtic Saints I have read—and that not once only, nor only in the works of unlettered and negligible persons—expressions of irritation at the local Oxonian colour. Matthew Arnold The simple, unlettered girl had then become a woman of great culture and of perfect physical charm. Winter Evening Tales The truth is, that it is difficult to determine, whether unlettered ignorance itself were not preferable to the kind of education which the people then received. The Hedge School; The Midnight Mass; The Donagh Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three Lady," she said behind her unlifted veil, "I am an unlettered woman and have been accustomed to the instruction of my masters. The City of Delight A Love Drama of the Siege and Fall of Jerusalem To the unlettered mind, it was," answered the young gentleman; "because the imagination could only be aided by the material presented to the natural eye. The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest Then we asked them whether they would be willing to receive us into their fold, although we were poor and unlettered. Jerusalem They choose their own bishops, rude unlettered laymen, with wives and families. The Age of Erasmus Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and London It may be bad for unlettered and ignorant men to try to teach and expound the words they read, but the words themselves are good words. In the Wars of the Roses A Story for the Young Ages of experience and genius are stored up in a locomotive, but quite an unlettered man can drive it. Recreations in Astronomy With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work With strong will and distinguished courage, he, without much talent, was conspicuous among a people who were, like himself, rude, unlettered, but daring, and abounding in strong common-sense. The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest Curiously enough, the Sunday before, the vicar, having the Dissenter in his mind, had said just the same of "unlettered schismatics," as he called them. Miriam's Schooling and Other Papers Maritz is a brilliant though unlettered Colonel who won distinction in the Boer war, while Beyers was the Commandant General of the South African Union forces. New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 2, May, 1915 April-September, 1915 But these simple folks, rustic and unlettered though they were, managed somehow to throw a shadow over his spirit by their grave and doubting words. In the Wars of the Roses A Story for the Young They were looked upon as nursery tales, or at best as the amusement of peasants and unlettered folk, who used to paste them up on the walls of inns, cottages, and ale-houses. A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century The mothers, clad in homespun, were chaste in thought and action; unlettered and ignorant, but pure as ether. The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest Yes, your father, unhappy boy; unlettered, old and broken with the burden of your disgrace, but loyal still to God and country. The City and the World and Other Stories Their Name, their Years, spelt by th' unlettered Muse, The Place of Fame and Elegy supply: And many a holy Text around she strews, That teach the rustic Moralist to dye. An Elegy Wrote in a Country Church Yard (1751) and The Eton College Manuscript It is impossible that such books should go into even an ignorant, uncouth, unlettered family without exerting an elevating and refining influence. A Library Primer Archie recognized the shrewdness and ability of this unlettered man, who carried on with ease several lines of business in addition to his farm. The Narrative of Gordon Sellar Who Emigrated to Canada in 1825 There is still a gleaning of poetry which might be culled, in some few districts, from the "lyre of the unlettered muse." Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 The clergy in the provinces had great influence over the unlettered boors, and the conspiracy soon assumed a very threatening aspect. The Empire of Russia As a mass these women were unlettered,—a fourth of those from fifteen to twenty-five years of age were unable to write. Darkwater Voices from Within the Veil What matter if he were but an unlettered sailor, scarcely knowing what moved him nor the words he spoke? The Children of the King Indeed, long after playbills had become common, this musical advertisement was still requisite for the due information of the unlettered patrons of the stage. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character The unlettered Arab cherishes the memory of his line. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 She is highest in intellect of all Shakspeare's women, and this is the root of her modesty; her 'unlettered girl' is like Newton's simile of the child on the sea-shore. Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers The sophistry of Grecian metaphysics directed against his unlettered disciples. Sermons on Various Important Subjects The Salvation Army will reach a certain class with their mere unlettered zeal. Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 I did not say that men had never forbidden the reading of the Scriptures in the vulgar tongue by the unlettered. For the Faith However lowly and unlettered one may be there is wide room for him around the manger of this Child. A Wonderful Night; An Interpretation Of Christmas Some of these works, for example the tunnels for conducting rice-field water through considerable hills, have been the work of unlettered peasants. The Foundations of Japan Notes Made During Journeys Of 6,000 Miles In The Rural Districts As A Basis For A Sounder Knowledge Of The Japanese People The scheme of life therein set forth was no doubt determined empirically, and there is nothing to prevent the simplest and most unlettered saint from framing his conduct on these principles. Christian Mysticism This is something that can be apprehended alike by the philosopher and by the unlettered masses of men. Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 "But the ignorant and unlettered are forbidden to read or buy the living Word?" said Magdalen quickly. For the Faith And yet this idea has curiously persisted in Wales, as a tradition among the unlettered, even to our own day. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 The unlettered Christian will readily perceive under the emblem in the text, a plain allusion to the gracious interposition of the church's Redeemer in the days of old. Notes on the Apocalypse This was the doctrine of the prophet Vintras, that extraordinary unlettered man who wrote such impressive and ardent pages. Là-bas It seemed scarcely possible that achievements so brilliant could have been the work of a mere unlettered Arab and his brave but unpretentious successors. Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 It is what occasionally gives to the work of the unlettered genius so great a charm. The Practice and Science of Drawing Christopher, at fifteen years of age, was an unlettered boy, small in stature, but very fond of the solitude of the forest, and quite renowned as a marksman. Christopher Carson A little behind him strutted Mr. Moseley, sending search-lights of scrutiny over the crowd in order to discover the academy boys who might be wasting their time upon unlettered femininity. Sandy For what taste could an unlettered clown and one just dismissed from labors have, when in company with the polite; the base, with the man of honor? The Works of Horace Naturally, this mental power, seemingly inconsistent with her humble origin, and her unlettered condition, is evidenced along those lines which made up the sum and substance of her life. Cosmic Consciousness The reason why so many arts and sciences were lost was because, as I have previously said, the most of those who were left in the country were ignorant, rude, and unlettered. After London Or, Wild England We say unexplored, though many portions of it had been visited by wandering bands of unlettered trappers and hunters. Christopher Carson And as he struggled to get the problems the other laid before him through his brain, the tranquil face of the unlettered peasant was clouded with an increasing sorrow. The Downfall These extracts shew how feeling for Nature in unlettered minds could develop into an enthusiasm which begot to some extent its own power of expression. The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times "Stupidity is closer to deliverance than intellect which innovates," is a phrase ascribed to a Mohammedan saint, and do not modern theologians report with enthusiasm, the unlettered condition of Jesus? Cosmic Consciousness Whence came that power to draft state papers, in a new and unlettered land, which compelled the admiration of the cultured Earl of Chatham? Have faith in Massachusetts; 2d ed. A Collection of Speeches and Messages Your Grace says that I am new in the islands, and unlettered; and on the other hand you say that those with whom I have consulted are misleading me and are mistaken. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 08 of 55 1591-1593 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century The most unlettered Belgian soldier, fighting for a truth that is at the very heart and depth of all things true, puts the mere wordmonger to shame. New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index No one doubts that uneducated sailors, like other unlettered people, are vividly impressed by fine scenery, especially when it is new to them, if they possess a spark of mental refinement. The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times Does this imply that an unlettered mind is desirable? Cosmic Consciousness Among a perfectly unlettered people, the singers of ballads are, as we have already seen, the sole depositaries of those historical facts on which the fame, and often the property, of their chieftains principally depend. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6 Blue backed speller with his unlettered sister for a teacher. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Indiana Narratives Now, the class of people to whom this country is so admirably adapted are formed of the unlettered and industrious labourers and artisans. The Backwoods of Canada Being Letters From The Wife of an Emigrant Officer, Illustrative of the Domestic Economy of British America But the older the world grows, the rarer must these unlettered geniuses become. Cambridge Essays on Education The work of an unlettered man, it has considerable merit as regards both matter and style, and was long a classic among the Scottish peasantry as well as higher orders of the people. A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature It has been common with some to emphasize his friendship for the poor as if he chose them for their poverty, and the unlettered for their ignorance. The Life of Jesus of Nazareth At eleven years old left an orphan to the care of an excellent but unlettered mother, he grew up without learning. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 The old man was unlettered, but his understanding was informed by a broad and gentle spirit and long experience of varied things. The Rules of the Game In truth, I think such things smack of the Evil One himself; yet I doubt if there be that visible bond with Satan that is commonly reported amongst the unlettered and ignorant. In the Days of Chivalry Baptist and Methodist missionaries, many of them unlettered but vigorous and powerful, went into the remotest districts and swept the population into their communions. The New South A Chronicle of Social and Industrial Evolution She is a plain, hard-featured woman who takes in sewing for a living, and she is quite unlettered, but she is a general in the army of spiritual forces. Hillsboro People The intelligent youth, under the guidance of Roughgrove, Glenn, and his unwearying and affectionate sister, was now rapidly making amends for the long neglect of his education while abiding with the unlettered Indians. Wild Western Scenes A Narrative of Adventures in the Western Wilderness, Wherein the Exploits of Daniel Boone, the Great American Pioneer are Particularly Described Jackson, on the other hand, was a rude soldier, unlettered, intractable, arbitrary, with a violent temper and a most despotic will. Daniel Webster Oral transmission, the test of the ballad, is of course nowhere possible save in such an unlettered community. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3 Mrs. Jackson was a typical frontier planter's wife—kind-hearted, sincere, benevolent, thrifty, pious, but unlettered and wholly innocent of polished manners. The Reign of Andrew Jackson The unlettered but motherly old woman who took care of him in those last days never guessed his greatness; none in the house or the neighborhood knew. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 01 Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great It was a small octavo of three hundred and fifty-six pages, in contents rather less than twice the present volume, bound in an unlettered wrapper of gray paper, and sold for five shillings. Burke Though an unlettered man, Lance Lovelace had been a close observer of humanity. A Texas Matchmaker The homogeneous and unlettered state of the ballad-makers is not to be put on a level with the ignorance of barbarism, nor explained by the analogy of songs among modern savage tribes. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3 Bobby recognises his "low knoll"—also the fact that it is no use endeavouring to instruct the unlettered until you have learned their language. The First Hundred Thousand Before the Roman conquest the nations and tribes of the West had been in general rude, unlettered, and unorganised. Life in the Roman World of Nero and St. Paul But in the order of events, the transition of unlettered backwoods emigrants to a people with a police, and all the engines of civilization was uncommonly rapid. The First White Man of the West Life and Exploits of Col. Dan'l. Boone, the First Settler of Kentucky; Interspersed with Incidents in the Early Annals of the Country. Strong-minded but unlettered men, like Girard, who cannot be idle, must needs plod on to the end, adding superfluous millions to their estates. Famous Americans of Recent Times Stepping out of the lift he walked, as from habit, to the little unlettered door which admitted employes to the big, bright, inner office. Personality Plus Some Experiences of Emma McChesney and Her Son, Jock An able-bodied, unlettered man could be bought for the price of an ox. Public Lands and Agrarian Laws of the Roman Republic What is the difference between unlettered laymen and lettered clergymen in this respect? The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style Almost as unlettered as James Harrod, he was a memorable example of a self-formed man. The First White Man of the West Life and Exploits of Col. Dan'l. Boone, the First Settler of Kentucky; Interspersed with Incidents in the Early Annals of the Country. Beautiful and eloquent tribute, paid by an unlettered peasant, not to rank or to wealth, but to a soul—a mighty soul though clad in "hodden grey" like himself! Recollections of a Long Life An Autobiography Intellectually, the people of New France comprised on the one hand a small élite and on the other a great unlettered mass. Crusaders of New France A Chronicle of the Fleur-de-Lis in the Wilderness Chronicles of America, Volume 4 Few take duly into account the evidence which exists as to the ease with which unlettered savages gain or lose a language. Critiques and Addresses To one side is the hall where thousands of scholars go to worship at the Spring and Autumn Festivals—this for the gentry alone, not for the unlettered populace. The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 Even the rude unlettered rustic betrays some feeling for the beautiful in the presence of the lovely little community of the field and garden. Flowers and Flower-Gardens With an Appendix of Practical Instructions and Useful Information Respecting the Anglo-Indian Flower-Garden Neglected children of the great mother, they grow up in darkness, dirty and unlettered, and when they are right they are right almost by accident, because of the blood in their veins. The Defendant A few pages about this 'second Ptolemy' will be grudged me by none but unlettered churls. In the Name of the Bodleian and Other Essays The unlettered poverty of scores of thousands of Irish immigrants, who came in multitudes from 1846 on, had made an unfavorable and false impression; their red blood on the battle field washed it out. The Glories of Ireland Pictures, as it has been well said, are the books of the unlettered, but then we must at least understand the language in which they are written. Legends of the Madonna as Represented in the Fine Arts He was," says his contemporary, Thomas Basin, "a man unlettered and of plebeian family, but of great and ingenious mind, well versed in the practical affairs of that age. A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 3 The Scandinavian names in an unlettered community, soon become indistinguishable from those of the surrounding American's—Jansen, Petersen, etc., being readily Americanized. The Winning of the West, Volume 1 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776 Readers of Patchwork had heard of Mr. Creevey long before Sir Herbert Maxwell once again let that politician loose upon an unlettered society. In the Name of the Bodleian and Other Essays Explanations followed; inquiries were set on foot; the chemist's assistant sailed for South Africa; and "Edax Rerum" is now largely in demand among the unlettered heroes who bear the banner of the Chartered Company. Collections and Recollections New York is crowded with voyagers, and men of mileage to the moon, but what made this powerful unlettered boy look for the inside of things? Fate Knocks at the Door A Novel I have shown that "the nations of unlettered men" are among that portion of the earth's population, upon whose language the genius of grammar has never yet condescended to look down! The Grammar of English Grammars It is no degradation to the greatest genius to say of him and of the most unlettered boor, that they are both men. Lectures on Art No one, perhaps among the numberless thousands who did hear him, ever knew what the power was, by which this unlettered backwoodsman swayed multitudes at his will. Round Anvil Rock A Romance Circumstances, in themselves trivial, often confer celebrity upon places hitherto of unlettered note. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 370, May 16, 1829 These are the starved unlettered hinds, forsooth,He hunted down like vermin—for a doctrine.They have their rights, their wrongs; their lawless laws,Their witless arguings, which unconscious reasonInforms to just conclusions. The Saint's Tragedy It is commonly supposed that the tendency of this practice of unlettered men is to corrupt the language. The Grammar of English Grammars That the essential Saxon purity of our tongue has been preserved is to the credit not of sensible unlettered people eschewing new fashions they could not comprehend, but to the scholars themselves. English Literature: Modern Home University Library of Modern Knowledge They were, for the most part, plain, unlettered, and of little refinement. Caleb Williams Or Things as They Are To give emphasis and additional effect to his words the god is made to speak tautologically so that the most unlettered man may not miss their meaning. Egyptian Ideas of the Future Life But if unlettered custom is such an artist of euphony, what must we think is required by scientific art and systematic learning? The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 The tendency of unlettered men is to uniformity—to analogy; and so strong is this disposition, that the common people have actually converted some of our irregular verbs into regular ones. The Grammar of English Grammars His destructive criticism of works of fiction became so acute that it was natural that his unlettered friends should suggest that he himself ought to write a novel. The Ghost Ship The feelings of the reprieved and unlettered soldier were too strong for his words to utter; he shook the hand of his deliverer and wept. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIII Yet, thanks to our good chancellor, I am not wholly unlettered. The White Company They were short days, for into them were crowded many hours of insidious instruction of the unlettered child by the lonely woman. Son of Tarzan Difference of languages she easily overcomes; but the leaden reign of unlettered Ignorance defies her scrutiny. The Grammar of English Grammars I. As the posterity of the Franks compose one of the greatest and most enlightened nations of Europe, the powers of learning and ingenuity have been exhausted in the discovery of their unlettered ancestors. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1 Perhaps, like other unlettered folk, they came to the conclusion that the Devil was in it, and yielded to the invisible persecution of witchcraft. My Garden Acquaintance So significant is it of a liberal share in what is worth while in life that unlettered and uneducated have become almost synonymous. Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education This woman like those of her sex and class was unlettered and superstitious. Memoirs of Carwin, the Biloquist These Saxons were a fierce, warlike, unlettered people from Germany; whom the ancient Britons had invited to their assistance against the Picts and Scots. The Grammar of English Grammars Your only true poets were the unlettered peasants, who poured forth their hearts in song, not because they wished to make poetry, but because they were joyous and true. Jasmin: Barber, Poet, Philanthropist They are a half-civilised, unlettered people, proverbial for a species of knavish acuteness, which serves them in lieu of wisdom. The Zincali: an account of the gypsies of Spain The richly savored and deliciously unlettered speech of Thomas Hardy's rustics was the creation of a master architect who had looked out over the ranges of fated mankind and looked also into hell. Guide to Life and Literature of the Southwest, with a Few Observations And it should be in no wise for show—the gross ostentation of the unlettered parvenu—but a genuine library, which should minister to his own individual culture. The Market-Place It is to unlettered people that we owe the disuse of holpen, bounden, sitten, and the use of the regular participles, swelled, helped, worked, in place of the ancient ones. The Grammar of English Grammars Poor Nicolou was a perfectly unlettered and untutored genius, and for that reason, perhaps, a keen listener to tales of terror. Eothen, or, Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East But this Chapman girl will come to us wholly unlettered. The Haunted Bookshop That pigmy kneaded out of common earth, ignorant, unlettered, giddy, vulgar, low. Les Misérables An unlettered borderman, who knew only the woods, whose life was hard and cruel, whose hands were red with Indian blood, whose vengeance had not spared men even of his own race. The Last Trail "They are safer in the hands of the unlettered than more powerful remedies; but why had you no regular attendant?" The Spy Somewhat surprised, Vivian looked with a curious eye on the unlettered backs of a row of mighty folios on a corner shelf. Vivian Grey Therefore, I say, all honor and glory to the rude, unlettered, great souled yeomen of the Mohawk Valley, who braved death in the wildwood gulch at Oriskany that Congress and the free Colonies might live. In the Valley Pancha Lopez, unlettered, almost illiterate, child of the mountains and the ditches, wandering vagabond of the stage, would sometimes indulge in unexpected felicities of phrase. Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California THESE, on a general survey, are the modes Of pulpit oratory which agree With no unlettered audience.—POLWHELE. Alice, or the Mysteries — Complete The prophet himself might be a simple or unlettered man. Alarms and Discursions The dream of his life was a brilliant marriage for his daughter, and no amount of argument could alter his opinion that Colonel Bill was a rude, unlettered stable-man. Southern Lights and Shadows I wonder still at the unlettered condition of the boys about me. In the Valley Three more years made all this very plain, and showed that our simple unlettered followers had seen and judged the signs of the times more correctly than those who called themselves their betters. Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 There are "the frail memorials," "with uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture decked;" there "the name, the years, spelt by the unlettered muse;" and the holy texts strewn round "that teach the rustic moralist to die." Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 2 Great Britain and Ireland, Part 2 So long as an unlettered soul can attain to saving grace there would seem to be no deadly error in holding theological libraries to be accumulations of, for the most part, stupendous impertinence. The Old Manse (From "Mosses from an Old Manse") To attend upon us we had a delightful peasant woman, neat, clean, sturdy, unlettered; yet very intelligent, and full of interest in English inventions and English ways. The Roof of France There were not a few officers in our force who were better educated than bluff, unlettered old Honikol Herkimer, and who had seen something of the world outside our Valley. In the Valley I cannot help being angry and somewhat fretful at this; he has, to be sure, strong parts, but he is a coarse, unlettered, unfanciful dog.' Life of Johnson, Volume 2 1765-1776 Philipps, quoted by Sowerby, says: "Even afflictive birch, Cursed by unlettered youth, distills, A limpid current from her wounded bark, Profuse of nursing sap." Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883 Though rude and unlettered, and severe almost to cruelty, there are generous sentiments within which shed a softening light, if inconstant, upon the darker traits. Zenobia or, the Fall of Palmyra He was an unlettered soldier, but strict and energetic in the government of the state, as well as of the army. Outline of Universal History An unlettered girl, a peasant in France, saw an opportunity to save the glory of her country, and with a courage that baffles human understanding Joan of Arc went forth to conquer. A Fleece of Gold; Five Lessons from the Fable of Jason and the Golden Fleece |
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