"Uncorrected" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the uncorrected paper of a Russian child twelve years old, who had studied English only four months. She had never, until September, been to school even in her own country and has heard English spoken only at school. I shall be glad if the paper of my pupil and the above ...
— The Promised Land • Mary Antin
... Our uncorrected thinking, influenced by the blindness of our natural hearts and the intrusive ubiquity of visible things, tends to draw a contrast between the spiritual and the real; but actually no such contrast exists. The antithesis ...
— The Pursuit of God • A. W. Tozer
... first published in the British Fortnightly Review and in the American Cosmopolitan. In the latter periodical they were, for the most part, printed from uncorrected proofs set up from an early version. This periodical publication produced a considerable correspondence, which has been of very great service in the final revision. These papers have indeed been honoured by letters from men and ...
— Mankind in the Making • H. G. Wells
... called by the name of "Troilus and Cressida," but so lamely is it left to us, that it is not divided into acts; which fault I ascribe to the actors who printed it after Shakespeare's death; and that too so carelessly, that a more uncorrected copy I never saw. For the play itself, the author seems to have begun it with some fire; the characters of Pandarus and Thersites, are promising enough; but as if he grew weary of his task, after an entrance or two, he lets them fall: and the latter part of the tragedy is nothing but a confusion ...
— The Works of John Dryden, Vol. 6 (of 18) - Limberham; Oedipus; Troilus and Cressida; The Spanish Friar • John Dryden
... ruling America must consent to let the majority into the game. We will no longer permit any system to go uncorrected which is based upon private understandings and expert testimony; we will not allow the few to continue to determine what the policy of the country is to be. It is a question of access to our own government. There are very few ...
— The New Freedom - A Call For the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People • Woodrow Wilson
... publication in the seventies; one of their number acted as leader, and what he read was painfully followed in the well-thumbed books. They lifted their voices in a weird transformation of familiar tunes, with quavers and glides that had crept in through long, uncorrected use, and amongst the prayers said was one for "Our Sovereign lady Queen Victoria, and Albert Edward, Prince of Wales." I tried to explain that Queen Victoria was dead, that they were not living under British rule, and I took a pencil and struck out the prayers for the royal family from ...
— Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled - A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska • Hudson Stuck
... time would-be philosophers and faddists became more powerful than ever, and gradually led their countrymen to accept all those absurd views of life, some account of which I have given in my earlier chapters. Indeed I can see no hope for the Erewhonians till they have got to understand that reason uncorrected by instinct is as bad as ...
— Erewhon • Samuel Butler
... unwavering devotion, a heart of wife and mother in one. His troubles were now constant, and he was forced to carry on a famous litigation with Buloz, director of the Revue des Deux Mondes, who had forwarded to the Revue Etrangere of St. Petersburg uncorrected proofs of the Lily of the Valley. In defending himself he was defending the common ...
— Honor de Balzac • Albert Keim and Louis Lumet
... 1800.[100] Inasmuch as this cast or similar copies have always been the chief sources for the study of the relief, owing to the unsatisfactory preservation of the original, it is the more strange that this mistake should have remained so long uncorrected,[101] or that Mller-Wieseler should imply[102] that their engraving was corrected from the British Museum publication, when no trace of such correction is to be found. A third drawing in which the true arrangement is shown, ...
— The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1 • Various
... an uncorrected error here: the third element is "Sarfalddavas" above but "tirfalddavas" below. This wasn't changed in later versions of the text, so it's not clear which is correct. The capitalized one would be consistent with the other names, and the "Sar-" implies ...
— Omnilingual • H. Beam Piper
... properly catching the foreign terms applied to the various grades. In the G. Text the passage runs: "Et sachies que les cent mille est apelle un Tut (read tuc) et les dix mille un Toman, et les por milier et por centenier et por desme." In Pauthier's (uncorrected) text one of the missing words is supplied: "Et appellent les C.M. un Tuc; et les X.M. un Toman; et un millier Guz por centenier et por disenier." The blanks he supplies thus from Abulghazi: ...
— The Travels of Marco Polo Volume 1 • Marco Polo and Rustichello of Pisa
... father left her, Miss Ida hurried to her own room, in order to recover from her agitation, and to remove all traces of it. She was an only child, and had accordingly a sense of her own importance, which happened to be uncorrected by physical deficiencies. Not that she was astonishingly beautiful, but she was tall and just good-looking enough to allow her to consider herself a beauty. Her chief attraction was her form, which, if somewhat flat-chested, had ...
— Elder Conklin and Other Stories • Frank Harris
... unpremeditated journeys—and here I am." John put his arm about her to make sure of this, and kept it there—lest he should forget. "When we met on the steamer and I saw the error you had made I was tempted—and yielded—to let you go on uncorrected. But," she added, looking lovingly up into John's eyes, "I'm glad you found ...
— David Harum - A Story of American Life • Edward Noyes Westcott |
