I highly approve (he says) of the speeches of Cato as compared with those of his own date, for though quite unpolished they imply some original talent .
A rough and unpolished behavior, as well as slovenliness of person, will certainly be the consequence of an almost constant exclusion from it.
They said, that the homespun Free Masonry, which had been imported from England, was fit only for the unpolished minds of the British; but that in France it had grown into an elegant system, fit for the profession of Gentlemen.
This opinion of a Prince isunpolished indeed, and homely, but it is just.
The only difference between the Chinese nation and the Tartars lies in the cultivated state of the one, and the unpolished situation of the others.
Whilst I beheld the artless, yet engaging manners of this unpolished savage, I could not help drawing a comparison between him and some of the more refined inhabitants of civilized countries, not much, I own, in favour of the latter.
Plain and unpolished in their manners, they only make use of such as serve to denominate the necessaries or conveniences of life, and to express their wants, which in a state of nature can be but few.
Why, the master is a Yankee colonel; I have not seen much of him; but the man is the most unpolished animal your honour ever disgraced your eyes by looking upon.
As ignorant and unpolished as he is, do you know, Miss Jenny, that I propose to introduce him to the honour of your acquaintance?
In a collection of stone implements of this country arranged in a cabinet, we find rude and unpolished specimens, as well as those of a finely wrought Neolithic type.
It will be remembered that the races of men who inhabited Europe in the Paleolithic Age had only very rudely formed, unpolished implements.
The sarcophagus is not of unpolished grey marble, but of whitish Palestine breccia, called marble by the ancients, from its resemblance in working and polish.
By this means I saw the entire front of the sarcophagus, which appeared to me to be made of unpolishedgrey marble.
One of them is a very rude flint hatchet, produced by merely chipping off flakes from its side by dexterous blows, and utterly unpolished or unground in any way.
I have never heard the very rude chipped and unpolished axes of the older drift men or cave men described as thunderbolts: they are too rough and shapeless ever to attract attention from any except professed archæologists.
This is done on a profitable basis, because the shrines exchange unpolished rice for polished.
No wonder that sensible people in Japan and the West demand the grey unpolished rice.
Unpolished vase with heavy handles and coated with soot--½.
That is to say, that the decoration is in dull colour on a lustreless and (usually) unpolishedwhite or drab ground.
There are in the same volume many other poetical pieces, and political, and polemical tracts, the greatest part of which are written with great force of thought, though in an unpolished irregular stile.
This satire, written in a rough unpolished manner, without art, or regular plan, contains some very bold and masculine strokes against the ridiculous vanity of valuing ourselves upon descent and pedigree.
The woman we declare unto you is the rude, misshapen, unpolished object of the successful artist.
Of Two Dwellings At the lower end of Limehouse Causeway Is a house where girls surrender their bodies To the pleasures of base-minded and unpolished men, In return for shillings.
In Ireland, where flint celts are comparatively rare, those in |85| the unpolished condition appear to be relatively more abundant in that material than in other rocks.
As has already been suggested, it is by no means improbable that some of these ruder unpolished implements were employed in agriculture, like the so-called shovels and hoes of flint of North America, described by Professor Rau.
Occasionally these implements occur in this country in the same unpolished condition, like Fig.
It is pointed and entirely unpolished at the butt-end, which, had that part only been preserved, would have had all the appearance of being the point of an implement of the Palæolithic period.
It is polished over the greater part of its surface, but is on one face quiteunpolished at the edge.
In Denmark, and Sweden also, the unpolished celts of flint are abundant, but principally of a class not found in Britain, with square sides and neatly worked wavy angles.
Had William been bred in the same place, he would have been as unpolished as this boy.
Young William was wondering to himself what kind of an unpolished monster his beggarly cousin would appear; and was contemplating how much the poor youth would be surprised, and awed by his superiority.
Percy, in the dedication to his Reliques, calls ballads the "barbarous productions of unpolished ages.
Now the poems learnt by rote, among all ancient unpolished nations, are ever songs chanted by the reciter, and accompanied with instrumental melody.
Yet after welding with the force of genius the various parts into an harmonious whole, he was doubtful of the reception it was likely to obtain, and he called the contents of his volumes "the barbarous productions of unpolished ages.
We should certainly recommend the learner to purchase unpolished clubs, for in the course of practice he is sure to bruise them by knocking them together, and the damage shows more plainly upon a polished than an unpolished surface.
But would it not occur to him, that the patronage denied to his skill by the frugal and unpolished habits of his countrymen might, with more probability of success, be sought from the opulence and luxury of London?
I found an artless and attractive female, unpolished and undepraved by much intercourse with mankind.
The walls were divided into panels of polished and unpolished granite.
On the unpolished panels hung paintings of scenery.
It may be naturally expected that, in an unpolished language like Maori, there should not be much that is artificial, or complicated, in the arrangement of tenses.
The native charms of unpolished beauty seem to have fixed the daughter in the affections of the inconstant emperor, and the bands of policy were more firmly connected by those of love.
Still preserving the prejudices, after they had lost the virtues, of their ancestors, they affected to despise the unpolished manners of the Roman conquerors, whilst they were compelled to respect their superior wisdom and power.
From such dangers the unpolished wives of the barbarians were secured by poverty, solitude, and the painful cares of a domestic life.
I have noticed many times that children are satisfied with less of whole wheat bread than of white bread, and that the brown unpolished rice satisfies them more quickly and completely than the polished rice.
Down the edges are rows of small, unpolished pearls, running into points.
