Antony, an illiterate youth of the lower part of The-baid, distributed his patrimony, deserted his family and native home, and executed his monastic penance with original and intrepid fanaticism.
We call the Qur'an the word of God, chiefly because it contains messages of high spiritual value delivered by an illiterate man like Muhammad.
But it is certain that he was too illiterate [Arabic: ummī] to understand their recondite doctrines if they had condescended to teach him.
This latter conclusion may be carried further by saying that in those European countries where elementary education is most common, the rate of illegitimacy is high, and that it is low in the more illiterate parts, e.
It is a transfer from a judicature of learning and integrity, to one, the greatness of which is both illiterate and unprincipled.
They were not merely illiterate and untaught, but showed also an extremely low grade of reasoning power.
There is more hope in an illiterate community where people hate lying than in a high-school educated nation which reads nothing but trash and is fed up on advertising, newspapers, popular fiction, and propaganda.
Older writers who saw the ragged throngs in the streets were led to identify the mob or crowd with the tattered, illiterate populace.
I couldn't love him if he really were a coarse, illiterate brute.
It was not written by a foreigner, nor, I judge, by a son of illiterate parents, since it came from an expensive Eastern preparatory school.
Illiterate persons therefore pronounce the genuin English u, much better than those who have attempted to shape their pronunciation according to the polite modern practice.
Let Englishmen take notice that when I speak of the American yeomanry, the latter are not to be compared to the illiterate peasantry of their own country.
Yet the customary sense of the word is known by practice, and as well understood by an illiterate man of tolerable capacity, as by men of science.
Not only illiterate men, but authors of the first rank, often use the present tense for the future, the future for the present, and the past for both.
With this difference however, that in New England, this pronunciation is generally confined to the more illiterate part of the people, and in Great Britain it prevails among those of the first rank.
Nay, verily; and were it not for the comforting and sustaining influence that these poor, illiterate and suffering creatures feel as coming from an unearthly source, they would in their ignorance all become infidels.
These fugitives may be thought to be a class of poor, thriftless, illiterate creatures, like the Southern slaves, but it is not so.
Hayward, it appears, was a very illiterate man; and the only account he could give of his invention was, that it was revealed to him in a dream.
Threatening letters were sent in from irate and illiterate Irishmen; the Herald was denounced from a Catholic pulpit; its carriers were assaulted on their rounds; but the paper won no friends from the side which it affected to espouse.
Fully to apprehend this important truth, let us attempt, in an improved society, to calculate the immense distance between the man of learning and the illiterate peasant.
Before he had a chance, however, the illiterate Hui-neng, between sessions of rice pounding, chanced along the hallway and asked that the verse be read to him.
Equally important, the previously illiterate Japanese adopted a Chinese system of writing--a confusing arrangement whereby Chinese symbols were used for their phonetic value rather than for their meaning.
Only the coarse and illiterate can there see aught for ridicule or unseemly jest.
Illustration] Obstinacy and contention are common qualities, most appearing in and best becoming a mean and illiterate soul.
Libels and satires, whose rude strains sometimes disturbed the peace of an illiterate city.
Books could not easily be found; and the judges, poor in the midst of riches, were reduced to the exercise of their illiterate discretion.
Meanwhile, I had “passed” this scorching examination, and had to sit quietly by and listen to illiterate costermongers and rascally pickpockets being severally questioned.
A third device was to insert a vowel, as illiterate English-speaking people do in the pronunciations "ellum" and "Henery.
The illiterate freedmen in Petronius speak very differently from the freemen in his story.
When one of the freedmen in Petronius remarks: "You ought not to do a good turn to nobody" (neminem nihil boni facere oportet) we see the same use of the double negative to which we are accustomed in illiterate English.
The professional teacher Quintilian is shocked at the illiterate speech of the spectators in the theatres and circus.
Hardly able to believe my eyes, I read that you should write, with as little imagination as possible, that plot in a novel or in a play was illiterate and puerile, and that the art of M.
But in the interests of those illiterate institutions called theatres it is not permissible for several characters to narrate events in which there is a sequel, by means of dialogue, in a music-hall.
Now whence comes this skill of these illiterate men?
