It is very true that the unlearned and unstable may wrest this, as they do the other epistles of St. Paul and the Scriptures generally, to a sense in contradiction to the Catholic faith.
Passages of an edifying and contemplative description from the Fathers and teachers of the Church down to the 13th century are selected by the author, and adapted to the use of the unlearned “Friends of God” in a German translation.
God’s book of nature, in which every creature is as it were a letter, is the first and simplest source of knowledge accessible to the unlearned layman, and the surest, because free from all falsifications of heretics.
There are twelve hours in the day, and twelve months in the year; there are twelve patriarchs, twelve prophets, twelve apostles; and this number has a greater import than the unlearned may understand.
The Choir sings some Hymns, that are indeed learned ones; but are corrupted in many Places by unlearned Persons.
If any unlearned Person or Stranger should come in, he would certainly think we were bringing up again among ourselves the Countrymens Play of holding up our Fingers (dimicatione digitorum, i.
Indeed I ought to beg Pardon for my Presumption, who dar'd presume to trouble a Man of so much Business, and so much Learning with my unlearned Letters.
Those six irrecoverable years had indeed almost passed away before even in Naples he was able to find, unlearned as he was, "rozza mente" as he calls himself, any opportunity of culture.
Some unlearned men used to say to me, that He was present only by His grace.
The African and European communities were too unlearned in the Bible and the Talmud to be able to express an opinion on the matter.
Think not more of thyself for that, than thou thinkest of the ignorant and unlearned who want it.
But as for my unlearned Friends, if they cannot relish the Motto, I take care to make Provision for them in the Body of my Paper.
I must confess, the Motto is of little Use to an unlearned Reader, for which Reason I consider it only as a Word to the Wise.
What a Joy must it be to the unlearned Operator to find that these Words, being carefully collected and writ down in Order according to the Problem, start of themselves into Hexameter and Pentameter Verses?
I do not so much blame the declamation of the preachers, (I have not heard them,) as the erroneous ideas of unlearned and simple people, who imagine that by buying indulgences they secure their salvation.
The simple and comparatively unlearned monks around him looked with a profound respect on the philosopher, courtier, scholar, who had cast away the real pomps and vanities of this life, such as they had never known.
So they went away wondering, when they saw so much understanding in an unlearned man.
The general, hearing this and much more from him, said with surprise that he was truly a servant of God, for whence could an unlearned man have so great sense if he were not loved by God?
If any one from real life were suddenly thrust unprepared and unlearned in theatrical art upon a stage the incongruity of the situation would be appalling.
It was originally planned as a court where the client or man unlearned in the law could come in to sue in a simple way.
Indocti discant et ament meminisse periti (Let the unlearned learn, and the learned delight in remembering).
Unlearned men of books assume the care, As eunuchs are the guardians of the fair.
I marvel," said King Charles to one, "that a learned man such as you can sit and listen to an unlearned tinker.
He says indeed that he unlearned at two of his schools all that he had learned at another.
Long ago in the twelfth century, when the people of England were simple and unlearned, they loved Metrical Romances, and we when we are simple and unlearned may love them too.
We unlearned the habit of drugging for its own sake.
Its anthropomorphism affected him like blasphemy, and the paper produced in him the sense of "great disgust," which its whole character might well excite in the unlearned reader.
Books are not buried with their owners, and the veriest book-miser that ever lived was probably doing far more for his successors than his more liberal neighbor who despised his learned or unlearned avarice.
If, therefore, the whole church be come into one place, and all speak with tongues, and there come in unlearned or unbelieving persons, will they not say that ye are mad?
If, therefore, the whole church be come into one place and all speak with tongues, and there come in unlearned and unbelieving persons will they not say that ye are mad?
Why should imprudent unlearned souls trouble that which is both learned, and prudent?
I unlearned the false teaching of tradition that aught else than personal character and personal conduct goes to the making up of any human being's account with his fellow man.
During four years of war I learned much, but I unlearnedfar more.
