The unlettered concierge who guards an historic house is proud of its traditions, or, if ignorant of them, as may chance, will listen to the tale with a courtesy that simulates sympathy.
Not all of them were the work of unlettered poets, but all were made to be sung; for lyric poetry as a branch of ‘mere literature’ had not yet come into being.
He took a deep interest in the poetry of primitive andunlettered men, and deduced from that his criteria of excellence; namely, sincerity, naturalness, strength and fulness of expression.
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.
Devil Hopwood found it easy to get the better of a poor unlettered tarpaulin, that knew well enough the way into a Wapping Alehouse, but quite lost himself in threading the mazes of a great man's Antechamber.
This is a privilege of the very highest order, and it lies within the reach of the simplest and most unlettered child of God.
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.
Since the introduction of universal military service every unlettered recruit must learn to read and write.
Incredible as it may seem, not a few of these were founded by unlettered peasants, whose sons and grandsons have become millionaires.
P: Among them are unlettered folk who know the Scripture not except from hearsay.
So believe in Allah and His Messenger, the Unlettered Prophet, who believeth in Allah and His words: follow him that (so) ye may be guided.
How did these quiet, stolid, unlettered Lancashire peasant-women become possessed of inventions worthy of the grimmest of German tales of diablerie?
But, unlettered or not, he is as fine a man as ever stepped in moccasins, or any other kind of foot gear.
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.
Now both Sparta, and the communities of Krete, were among the most unlettered portions of the Hellenic name.
Yet Luther’s opinion is that: “It must have been composed by some unlettered monk.
For they are donkeys, great, rude, unlettered donkeys in Christian things.
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.
We are not justified in regarding him as unlettered or ignorant.
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.
The occasion of this notoriety was the rare fact that, though a rude and unlettered son of the forest, he was distinguished for the arts and accomplishments of the orator.
A reference was immediately made to the treaty in question, when to the astonishment of all present, and the triumph of the unlettered statesman, the document confirmed every word he had uttered.
In all this an unlettered man displays the acumen of a thoroughly educated polemical theologian.
Controversy was carried on in those days with extreme virulence; learned and unlettered men alike used violent language, which, in this enlightened and comparatively happy age, is read with wonder.
And this unlettered mechanic, when he might have improved himself in book wisdom, was shut up within the walls of a prison for nearly thirteen years, for obeying God, only solaced with his Bible and Fox's Book of Martyrs.
One epitaph, which theunlettered Muse must have dictated, is worth recording.
A certain basket of peaches, a rare vegetable, little known to boarding-houses, was on its way to me via this unlettered Johannes.
Sitting on the girls' benches, conspicuous among the school-girls 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.
They strengthen the organ and enlarge the prospect, and give a more universal insight into things than can be learned from unlettered observation.
Alchemy thus presented to the ancient adepts many of the ordinary wonders of modern chemistry; in short, the latest adept of the present century is no other than an unlettered chemist.
But it is only those who become immersed in studies, whether of theology, philosophy, or kindred mental pursuits, who can appreciate the growing appetite for what appears to unlettered men as the driest of all dry occupations.
Among a perfectly unlettered people, the singers of ballads are, as we have already seen, the sole depositories of those historical facts on which the fame, and often the property, of their chieftains principally depend.
The more formal Muses despised these rude and unlettered rhymes--when they noticed them at all it was in a disdainful or patronising spirit--and this holds true of the eighteenth century almost as much as of the sixteenth.
It seemeth to me that when devout and learned men have opined that thou art fitter for a soldier than for a monk, it is not for a weak unlettered maid like me to gainsay it.
