unlettered
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Unlettered and unskilled, Lee compared himself favorably with the great men whose biographies he read, such as Mao Tse-tung and John F. Kennedy.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Yet the Lettered and the Unlettered powers are at swords' points; and very old and bitter foemen, too, they are.
From Neghborly Poems and Dialect Sketches by Riley, James Whitcomb
Unlettered as they were themselves, they could scarcely undertake to educate their children.
From History of Education by Seeley, Levi
Unlettered themselves, they became daily more and more deeply impressed, through their military associations, and by contact with things that required knowledge, with the necessity of having an education.
From The Black Phalanx African American soldiers in the War of Independence, the War of 1812, and the Civil War by Wilson, Joseph T. (Joseph Thomas)
Unlettered as he was and unpolished, he was still in some most important points a gentleman.
From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron
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