Errors

Examples

• My dear girl was right in saying that he only pursued his errors the more desperately for her sake. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Human nature is very subject to errors of this kind; and perhaps this nation as much as any other. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• He wrote to Leverrier in reference to the errors of the radius vector and received a satisfactory and sufficiently compliant reply. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• That such material will control the pupil's operations so as to prevent errors is true. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Or if it be possible to imagine, that such errors are the sources of all immorality? David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• If any copies were handed about, they must have been in manuscript, and each copy must have been liable to errors and deliberate falsification. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Those who are not of this world can do little else to arrest the errors of the obstinately worldly. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• This explanation will serve to rectify mistakes which may already have been made, and to prevent future errors. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• I understand and share the wise consideration with which you regard his errors. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• His errors are readily comprehensible, as, for example, in attributing spontaneous generation to eels, the habits and mode of reproduction of which only recent studies have made fully known. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• It is a book to which all intelligent readers come sooner or later, abounding as it does in illuminating errors and Boswellian charm. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• In an unguarded moment, I chanced to say that, of the two errors; I considered falsehood worse than an occasional lapse in church-attendance. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Many errors might creep in by such a system. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The ability to detect errors quickly in a series of experiments is one of the things that has enabled Edison to accomplish such a vast amount of work as the records show. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I knew from her own lips that she regarded herself as the innocent cause of his errors, and as owing him a great debt she ardently desired to pay. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• I never injured any of those women, reflected I, with meek resignation: but God will be kinder to me and to my errors than they are! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Now, with regard to my various errors, of which you have been pleased to make mention. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• I think I have seen such comedies of errors going on in the world. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Mrs. Bute, that brisk, managing, lively, imperious woman, had committed the most fatal of all errors with regard to her sister-in-law. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• No one can ever regard such errors as a defect in my moral character. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• To secure uniformity in the several Federal circuits and correct errors, it has been proposed to establish a central court of patent appeals in Washington. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• No wonder a principle so inconstant and fallacious should lead us into errors, when implicitly followed (as it must be) in all its variations. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• It matters little now, except as it may dispose you to think more leniently of his errors. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• With little ceremony, and less courtesy, he pointed out what he termed her errors. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• For errors of this sort is he to be the victim of mob outrage? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The postscript is, therefore, to be found in few copies; it corrects several errors in the book. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• On other occasions the custom is more entire, and it is seldom we run into such errors. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Were they grammatical errors, or did you object to the substance? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• To have his errors made public might ruin him for ever. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.

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