Or, if the grave be now thy bed, Why am I ignorant of the same That I may rest; and neither blame, Nor sorrow may attend thy name?
Why, a pound IS a sovereign, of course," Philip answered briskly, smiling the genuine British smile of unfeigned astonishment that anybody should be ignorant of a minor detail in the kind of life he had always lived among.
Being ignorant of the English language, it is a long time before they comprehend fully the instruction of their teachers.
These were highly prized by the natives, (ignorant as they were of the manner of making them,) and were worn instead of the native amulets.
As scholars, the children of the most ignorant Polish Jew keep fairly abreast of their more favored playmates, until it comes to mental arithmetic, when they leave them behind with a bound.
The man is so ignorant that, as one of the sharpers who prey upon him put it once, it "would be downright sinful not to take him in.
But as long as the ignorant crowds continue to come and to herd in these tenements, his grip can never be shaken off.
Among such a people, ground by poverty until their songs have died in curses upon their oppressors, hopelessly isolated and ignorant of our language and our laws, it would not be hard for bad men at any time to lead a few astray.
Ignorant of 1000 things which have come to my son and yours in the course of education.
It would have been better had they fallen in with me, who am tooignorant for their cunning, blessed St. Anna knows!
His act in the Giudecca has won upon the fancy of the girl; and like all of generous and ardent natures, ignorant as she is of his merits, she supplies his character with all necessary qualities by her own ingenuity.
Thou art not ignorant of the policy that rules a state which hath made its name so illustrious by high deeds in arms, its riches, and its widely-spread influence.
I am young, and ignorant of the world, but I know we should cause joy, and not pain, to those we esteem.
The ignorant and the low are, to the state, as children, whose duty it is to obey, and not to cavil.
Were the senate to shut its ears to all the wild theories that are uttered by the unthinking and vain, their language would soon penetrate to the ill-regulated minds of the ignorant and idle.
He is ignorant of the presence of Don Camillo, and in that we are safe.
He was not so ignorant of human affairs as to require to be told that those who ruled would sometimes concede that in secret which policy forbade them to yield openly.
When he had done, the prince again asked explanations, with his eye, from the senator at his side, for he was ignorant whether the policy of the state required an example, or simply a death.
He kissed the hand of Donna Violetta, who, halfignorant still of his services, listened to his words in wonder.
Theophrastus had not said a word of the shocking business; and Marceline had not dared question him about it so that she was still ignorant of their dreadful misfortune.
Are you quite ignorant of the experimental method?
He will take up with those crude and vague notions which are so useful to the ignorant all over the world.
At the period when Europeans first came among them the natives of North America were ignorant of the value of riches, and indifferent to the enjoyments which civilized man procures to himself by their means.
Thus the men whose task it is to cultivate the rich soil of Kentucky are ignorant and lukewarm; whilst those who are active and enlightened either do nothing or pass over into the State of Ohio, where they may work without dishonor.
When the ancestors of the people of these United States first came to the shores of America they found the red man strong: though he was ignorant and savage, yet he received them kindly, and gave them dry land to rest their weary feet.
For my own part, I had rather submit the decision of a case to ignorant jurors directed by a skilful judge than to judges a majority of whom are imperfectly acquainted with jurisprudence and with the laws.
Scarcely known to one another, the nearest neighbors are ignorant of each other's history.
On the other was labor and a rude ignorance; but in the midst of this coarse and ignorant multitude it was not uncommon to meet with energetic passions, generous sentiments, profound religious convictions, and independent virtues.
We have gotten a democracy, but without the conditions which lessen its vices and render its natural advantages more prominent; and although we already perceive the evils it brings, we are ignorant of the benefits it may confer.
In the States of Connecticut and Massachusetts, it is extremely rare to find a man imperfectly acquainted with all these things, and a person wholly ignorant of them is a sort of phenomenon.
Our means of intellectual intercourse unite the most remote parts of the earth; and it is impossible for men to remain strangers to each other, or to be ignorant of the events which are taking place in any corner of the globe.
This unfortunate effect of the disparity of conditions is not observable in savage life: the Indians, although they are ignorant and poor, are equal and free.
I meant to ask the favor of you to have it sent to him, as I was ignorant how to do it.
They were ignorant of our commerce, which had been always monopolized by England, and of the exchange of articles it might offer advantageously to both parties.
Some of the negroes and even some of the more ignorant crackers declare they have heard screams from the swamp on dark nights and that white figures have been seen flitting--" "So?
He knew that the grossly ignorant wreckers and fisherfolk of the keys had never set eyes on such an object as this, nor had so much as heard of Persian cats' existence.
Musicians are not, as a class, prone to a various erudition (a compliment fully returned by the learned in other directions, who are almost always profoundly ignorant of the actual art of music).
The result is a book which can be unreservedly commended for self-instruction to the ignorant and to the too learned.
Mr. Sturge also has been equally zealous and engaged in movements for the ignorant and perishing classes at home.
They seemed so perfectly joyous and happy amid the desolations, so airy and fanciful in their bursts of song, so ignorant and careless of the deep meaning of the gray desolation around them, that I could not but be moved.
O, happy men, that you areignorant of its enormities.
I expounded to him what an ignorant sinner he was, and that the dirt of ages was one of the surest indications of value.
A gamekeeper, who was a German, was assigned to Sternburg, since the general did not know his way about on the reservation and was quite ignorant of game feeding.
And yet, with all these assurances of danger, the foreign representatives seem to have been singularly ignorant of the real difficulties with which the government had to deal.
And yet these humble and ignorant people withstood death, and tortures far worse than death, with a heroism worthy of all praise.
They were either ignorant of the etiquette which required them to withdraw during the passage of such a cavalcade, or underrated the danger of disregarding it.
Richardson, who was foolhardy and ignorant of those with whom he had to deal, answered, “Let me alone, I have lived fourteen years in China and know how to manage these people.
For they speak and discourse much about us, but we are silent, ignorant of the language of the country.
Sir Thomas Browne goes so far as to attribute divination by astrology to Satan, remarking how he "makes the ignorant ascribe natural effects to supernatural causes; and thus deludes them with this form of error.
In fact, it was generally admitted among the younger members of the staff, when they gathered at Ventriloquo's for lunch, that the Old Man was immaculately ignorant of all phases of the newspaper business.
Perhaps you don't realize how many of us are young and ignorant and at work in offices, and absorbed, out of working hours, in the universal passion.
A certain number of the persons questioned were familiar with the gnats in other localities, but the majority were seemingly ignorant of the existence of such flies with biting habits.
It is now known that its effects on the reproductive organs appear primarily after the kidneys have been affected to such an extent as to endanger life, and that many cases of fatal poison have been due to its ignorant use.
Some persons are so little affected that they may be wholly ignorant of the presence of a large number of bugs.
Lamartine was a chatterer; Ledru-Rollin was like a woman; the people wereignorant and ungrateful, so that the mission of literary people was over.
On the other hand, we are ignorant how much he has left out and sacrificed.
Independently of the language or contemporary allusions, we should never be disposed to take a play of that school, though ignorant of its author, and the date of its production, for a work of the more modern period.
So totally ignorant was Engel of the spirit of Grecian art.
Born in an inferior rank, ignorant and uneducated, he passed his life in low society, and laboured to please a vulgar audience for his bread, without ever dreaming of fame or posterity.
But he was still ignorant of the truth about that letter!
Sàkalàva, ignorant of reading and writing, knew what they were doing, is very doubtful.
He observes certain sequences of facts, certain antecedents and consequents, but of the nexus between them he knows no more than the most ignorant and foolish of peasants.
All the same these people, poor and ignorant and at the mercy of a ruthless employer class, were happy as children in the delight of their newfound freedom.
Therefore the South has little love or use for an intelligent labor class, but desires above all things an ignorant one, and does what in it lies to hinder educational progress among its colored population.
That section is not anxious to reduce the illiteracy of its colored population and to raise the standard of their intelligence, for it thinks that an ignorant labor class is less difficult to manage than an intelligent one.
