"Error" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... in her chair, well pleased with herself. Like many of her kind, she began the social campaign with the initial error of underrating her ...
— The Grey Lady • Henry Seton Merriman
... majestic mountains, Without error or mistake, Were reflected in the bosom Of that cool, pellucid lake, So our every thought and action, Be it deed of hate or love, May be photographed in record ...
— Mountain idylls, and Other Poems • Alfred Castner King
... prompt to plead guilty to a species of Hippopotamos error, in having here translated the word Allemagne into GERMANY! Now, although this translation, per se, be correct, yet, as applicable to the text, it is most incorrect—as the Allemagne in question happens to be a Parish in the ...
— A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume One • Thomas Frognall Dibdin
... for that, but now let's think [Aminta embraces her. How to preserve her still. Since all believe her dead, but who are present, And that they may remain in that blest error, I will consult with you; but you, my dearest, Shall as the Spirit of Erminia act, And reap the glory of so good a part: It will advance the new design I have; And, Sister, to your care I must commit ...
— The Works of Aphra Behn, Vol. III • Aphra Behn
... the debatable land of our polity. It was no marvel if, both on the one side and on the other, inroads were often made. But, when treaties have been concluded, spaces measured, lines drawn, landmarks set up, that which before might pass for innocent error or just reprisal becomes robbery, perjury, deadly sin. He knew not, you say, which of his powers were founded on ancient law, and which only on vicious example. But had he not read the Petition of Right? Had not proclamation been made from ...
— The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, Vol. 1 (of 4) - Contibutions to Knight's Quarterly Magazine] • Thomas Babington Macaulay
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