It must be apparent to every one, learned and unlearned in its mysteries, that no evidence can be of its highest value, and often is of no value, until sifted by cross-examination.

The so-called Mandeville's Travels was one of the few works that the unlearned of that age could understand and enjoy.

They may have heard [he says, speaking of the "unlearned in the law"] that the law of England is founded in reason and wisdom.

As Priests were famous among the Egyptians; Magi among the Chaldeans, and Gymnosophists among the Indians; so Musicians flourished among the Grecians: and therefore EPAMINONDAS was accounted more unlearned than THEMISTOCLES, because he had no skill in music.

" "There it is," said I; "you dart down on us who are unlearned with your phonetic disturbances, but you daren't examine what the thing really is for fear of being laughed at.

Like Shakspeare, Homer is a kind of Bible to both the learned and unlearned among all peoples and ages, one of the prodigies of the world.

What I mean is, the Mixture of inconsistent Metaphors, which is a Fault but too often found in learned Writers, but in all the unlearned without Exception.

I have thought if there be any way to spare his life, and leave this hour's agony to read a lesson not to be unlearned until the grave.

The common Hyacinth is known to the unlearned as the Harebell, so called from the bell shape of its flowers and from its growing so abundantly in thickets frequented by hares.