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His children were now all settled in life, and he had given them everything he had except the cottage in which he lived. I was struck by the strong virtue of this illiterate peasant, who had evidently no notion of his own value, and who would not have told the simple story of his life passed amidst the moors of the Correze had I not drawn it from him.
"My lord, my lord, there must be some limit even to cross-examination by my friend. Does your lordship think it is fair to suggest a classical quotation to a respectable but illiterate labourer?" Tindal, who could not keep his countenance and no man who witnessed the scene could said, "It all depends, Mr. Thesiger, whether this man understands Latin."
But American vagrants, with no thoughts save of gold-digging, and an overweening illiterate jargon for their speech, had long ceased to interest this priest, even in his starvation for company and talk from the outside world; and therefore after the intoning, he sat with his homesick thoughts unchanged, to draw both pain and enjoyment from the music that he had set to the Dixit Dominus.
But it was not with one camp only that we had to deal: the English were everywhere: a whole army lay before us an army so immense that many Englishmen thought that it would be a task beyond the stupid and illiterate Boer to count it, much less to understand its significance. I will pander to the English conception of us and say, "We have seen them: they are a great big lot!"
They will not only publish, but sell; their efficient book-shops, their efficient system of book-distribution will replace the present haphazard dealings of quite illiterate persons under whose shadows people in the provinces live.
For my own part I do not agree with him that this class, any more than any other class, can be shown to have a high reproductive value which is the matter under analysis in this paper though I will admit that an ex-teacher will probably do infinitely more for her children than if she were an illiterate or untrained woman.
I must have given you up." "Dear me! How should I ever have borne it! It would have killed me never to come to Hartfield any more!" "Dear affectionate creature! You banished to Abbey-Mill Farm! You confined to the society of the illiterate and vulgar all your life! I wonder how the young man could have the assurance to ask it. He must have a pretty good opinion of himself."
And hence it is that the life of the most glorious priest Patrick, the patron and apostle of Ireland, so illustrious in signs and miracles, being frequently written by illiterate persons, through the confusion and obscurity of the style, is by most people neither liked nor understood, but is held in weariness and contempt.
This person represents mere illiterate presumption. We take our stand on the law." "Oh the law, the law!" Mrs. Wix superbly jeered. "You had better indeed let the law have a look at you!" "Let them pass let them pass!" Sir Claude pressed his friend hard he pleaded. But she fastened herself still to Maisie. "DO you hate me, dearest?"
Resolved We don't want such reparation for being characterized as an illiterate set of enthusiasts devoid of character; our clergy a set of worthless ramblers, unworthy the protection of our civil laws. Pity and contempt for the Legislature should be expressed for bribery. We believe the money, if received, would be a lasting curse.
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