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Ambitious non-professionals, mostly self-instructed, display their skill and powers of entertainment along the broadest lines.

From Rolling Stones by Henry, O.

He corrected the crude ideas which the self-instructed student had formed, and opened to him the wide field of modern criticism.

From World's End A Story in Three Books by Jefferies, Richard

Notwithstanding that she was self-instructed, she soon became mistress of the French and Italian languages, and made some proficiency even in the Latin.

From Letters on the Improvement of the Mind, Addressed to a Lady by Chapone, Hester