If nothing is more certain for us than that many persons, within our recollection, couldn't help being rather generally unadmonished and unaware, so nothing is more in the note of peace than that such a perceived state, pushed to a point, makes our scales of judgment but ridiculously rattle.
"A Small Boy and Others"
Henry James
Old Paris then even there considerably lingered; I recapture much of its presence, for that matter, within our odd relic of a house, the property of an American southerner from whom our parents had briefly hired it and who appeared to divide his time, poor unadmonished gentleman of the eve of the Revolution, between Louisiana and France.
"A Small Boy and Others"
Henry James
Why, then, do you bear down so hard on the woman's duty and leave the man to go his way unadmonished?
"A New Atmosphere"
Gail Hamilton