He walked through to the other rooms, and was not long left in ignorance of the cause of the unusual state of things.

Such an instance of human ignorance in these times, is shocking.

I gave them no signs of recognition however, deeming it advisable to let them remain in ignorance as to who I was.

With a desire, also, that all ignorance on this most essential part of the culinary art should disappear, and that a uniform system of weights and measures should be adopted, we give an account of the weights which answer to certain measures.

But he was puzzled by the combination of such imperfect knowledge or semi-barbaric ignorance with the possession of a secret of such immense importance as the repulsive current, not yet known nor, as I gathered, even conceived by the inhabitants of this planet.

Hence, he asserts of theoretic arithmetic that it imparts no small aid to our ascent to real being, and that it liberates us from the wandering and ignorance about a sensible nature.

Let us at once confine Wisdom in the dungeons of Folly, recall Ignorance from her barbarous wilds, and close the gates of Science with everlasting bars.

If thine and mine were banished in good sooth From honour, pleasure, and utility, The world would turn, I ween, to Paradise; Blind love to modest love with open eyes; Cunning and ignorance to living truth; And foul oppression to fraternity.

Foolish critics often betray their ignorance by saying that a painter or a writer "only copies what he has seen, or puts down what he has known."

He conceits nothing in learning but the opinion, which he seeks to purchase without it, though he might with less labour cure his ignorance than hide it.

It is evident what fruitless labour it must be to search, in those barbarous and illiterate ages, for the annals of a people, when their first leaders, known in any true history, were believed by them to be the fourth in descent from a fabulous deity, or from a man exalted by ignorance into that character.

Can any one expect that he should be made to confess, that what he taught his scholars thirty years ago was all error and mistake; and that he sold them hard words and ignorance at a very dear rate.

This astonishing genius, seemed to be commissioned from above, to deliver us not only from the ignorance under which we laboured as to poetry, but to carry poetry almost to its perfection.

And it is more wicked, because it is founded on an ignorance for which there is no excuse.

Their professed object as they stated themselves was "to banish vice and ignorance out of the territories of Great Britain, (nothing less!)

But. the poor old man, trained in ignorance through threescore years, found it difficult to learn.

I would not advise you to display your ignorance before Evadne, or your future lecturettes on the conventionalities may prove lacking in vital force.

What could Jesus do with ignorance like thisignorance that knew not its own ignorance?

When his aged relatives mispronounced the magic word kopje, or betrayed their belief that a donga was an inaccessible mountainhe brought the big guns of his heavy satire to bear on the little target of their ignorance without remorse.

Did the leaders of modern thought do anything with their genius or their knowledge to break down old frontiers of hatred, to enlighten the ignorance between one nation and another, or to put such power into the hands of peoples that they might have strength to resist the tyranny of military castes and of military ideals?

And if I had power over these translations of Aristotle, I would have every copy of them burned; for to study them is only a loss of time and a cause of error and a multiplication of ignorance beyond telling.

It is often said that we have too many voters; that the aggregate of vice and ignorance among us should not be increased by giving women the right of suffrage.

"Would you set up your ignorance against the skill and science of Luke Hatton?

"Don't you know?" said one of them; "I vonders at your ignorance vy bishop is made all vine vithout no vater vatsomever; vereas negus is made with vine and vater mixedthat's the difference, to be sure.

The missionaries, like Livingstone, usually supposed that the savage seer's declared ignorance after his so-called fit of inspirationof what occurred in that state, was an imposture.