Learn'd

And my Cozzens laugh'd and said, Ever did Gentlemen dislike a Learn'd

A Woman Named Smith Marie Conway Oemler 1905

Utter not base and frivilous things amongst grave and Learn'd Men nor very Difficult Questions or Subjects, among the Ignorant or things hard to be believed, Stuff not your Discourse with Sentences amongst your Betters nor Equals

George Washington's Rules of Civility Conway, M D 1890

Learn'd and unlearn'd are hand in hand, and male and female are hand in hand,

Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman 1855

Learn'd in the Field, where late he fought so felly;

Broad Grins Comprising, With New Additional Tales in Verse, Those Formerly Publish'd Under the Title "My Night-Gown and Slippers." George Colman 1799

Who justly are enroll'd amongst the Learn'd and Wise!

Miscellany Poems, on Several Occasions 1713

_Pulpiteer_ may be tainted a little as well as the _Poetaster_, let us see whether we can find him guilty of the first Charge against us, which is _Immodesty_; and upon this subject indeed, if our Learn'd Reformer did not impose upon us with a Fallacy, I should (to shew my good Nature walk hand in hand with my resentment) once more admire him for his

Essays on the Stage Preface to the Campaigners (1689) and Preface to the Translation of Bossuet's Maxims and Reflections on Plays (1699) Thomas D'Urfey 1688

We Mad-men are quicker, grow Learn'd with good Liquor,

Wit and Mirth: or Pills to Purge Melancholy, Vol. 5 of 6 Thomas D'Urfey 1688

And yours, Dear Isabella, for desiring you to marry my good Friend there [points to Witt.] whose Name I perceive I was mistaken in: — And yours Leander, that I wou'd not take your Advice long since: And yours fair Lady, for believing you honest, — twas done like a credulous Coxcomb: — And yours Sir, for taking any of your Tribe for Wise, Learn'd, or Honest.

Sir Patient Fancy 1678

_ This is a pious Work: You are a Knave of Credit, a very Saint with the rascally Rabble, with whom your seditious Cant more prevails, your precious Hum and Ha, and gifted Nonsense, than all the Rhetorick of the Learn'd or Honest.

The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume I Aphra Behn 1664

Whitman's first-person speaker imagines a utopia where "the Asiatic and the African are hand in hand, the European and the American are hand in hand, / Learn'd and unlearn'd are hand in hand, and male and female are hand and hand".

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