Many savage nations have been found utterly ignorant of it, and many races had no other way of dressing their food than by exposing it to the rays of the sun.

But in regard to myself, my past historyeven my nameI was totally ignorant.

They passed over the long bridge three days after the famous night at Rosedale, of whose exciting sequel they were profoundly ignorant.

Nor will it, perhaps, be found that they ever appeared grossly ignorant of the publick interest, or failed to discover any obvious truth, or foresee any probable contingencies.

To make a table of percentages of mankind, and to assign to each system its proportion, are to seem to be wise where we are deplorably ignorant; and, moreover, if our means of information were much better than they are, our figures would merely show the outward adherence.

To you, who have lived all your lives in populous places, and have been taken to church from the earliest time you can remember, my admiration of these things must appear strangely ignorant.

She objected, however, that while she had heard much in her father's house and during our travels of what I had to tell, her companions, scarcely less interested, were comparatively ignorant.

Sweet are his slumbers: of all human arts Happily ignorant, nor taught by wisdom Numberless woes, nor polished into torment.

Yes, conceit; for that his enormous and contentedly ignorant confidence in his own rambling thoughts was usually clad in a decent silence, is no reason why it should be less strictly called by the name directly implying a complacent self-estimate unwarranted by performance.

He writes most interesting lettersI don't know whether you care about farming and cattle-raising and that kind of thing; for my own part I am sublimely ignorant of such matters.

" The Professor adjusted his glasses and turned them upon the doubter for the space of three minutes, but Holman was blissfully ignorant of the look which the angry archaeologist favoured him with.

"The villagers are exceedingly ignorant, and when their land is in danger, believe themselves justified in seizing any old shot-gun or revolver which lies at hand.

In much more serious matters it is assumed that the agnostic is impartial; whereas the agnostic is merely ignorant.

Of European things he was supremely ignorant.

" "Yes," Mr. Kennaston assented, "I am wilfully ignorant.

Now it happens that in one quarter of the island the negro population are remarkably ignorant and degraded.

Does any curious and finely ignorant woman wish to know how Bob's eye at a glance announced a dog-fight to his brain?

Viewing the matter, indeed, as dispassionately and philosophically as possible, it is hard to justify the ways of a Creator who slowly developed and matured a race, keeping them deliberately ignorant of light and truth, in order that they might at last be exterminated, in blood and pain, by a dominant and righteous race of invaders.

"Well, the fact is, old man, you are painfully ignorant.

They were incredibly ignorant about the simplest matters.

Many foreign critics, with minds blankly ignorant of nearly all the facts, seemed to think that the whole business could be accounted for by a few glib phrases about German and Socialist propaganda, or the supposed lack of fighting qualities in the Italian race.

" "Young man," said Roundjacket, solemnly, "it is easy to see that you are shockingly ignorant of the proprieties of lifeor you never would have suggested such a thing.

" S. "Tell me, then, dear youth, of your indulgence, what they are; for I am shamefully ignorant on the matter.

Hence all the Zola heredity and Ibsen heredity that has been written in our time affects me as not merely evil, but as essentially ignorant and retrogressive.

When we are young we learn much, because we are universally ignorant; we observe every thing, because every thing is new.