Peel found some curious historical inaccuracies.

Here Mr. BELLAIRS is the first to admit a slight inaccuracy in his previous calculations.

the learned Schweighaeuser in no measured language accuses Clearchus of wanton recklessness and gross inaccuracy.

Little inaccuracies must be pared away, and the whole must assume a more formal and correct appearance.

Grammatical inaccuracies are to be kindly excused, in all those from whom nothing better can be expected; for people are often under a necessity of appearing as speakers or writers, before they can have learned to write or speak grammatically.

You know what I mean" He was too accustomed to her little confused alarms to explain them away seriously as a rule, or to correct her verbal inaccuracies, but to-night he felt she needed careful, tender treatment.

(There is manifest inaccuracy in this account, though, inasmuch as Mr. PHILLIPS was not yet born, at that time; but we of course give the story as it is related to us by eye-witnesses.)

In the letter quoted above Lamb speaks of his purchaser as "Mr. Grig Junr.," more, I am inclined to think, from his desire to have his little joke than from mere inaccuracy, for he must have known the correct name of his purchaser.

Should we regret or rejoice to say that it involves an obvious inaccuracy?

A well-founded conviction of Vasari's frequent inaccuracy has induced recent critics to call in question many hitherto accepted points about the nationality and training of Pisano.

Some men relate what they think, as what they know; some men, of confused memories and habitual inaccuracy, ascribe to one man, what belongs to another; and some talk on, without thought or care.

Surely the world is always the better for having a little truth instead of a great deal of idle inaccuracy and falsehood.

Yet he does not fail to repeat, with some additional inaccuracy, the notion, that, "What do you think of my horse's running?

After making due allowance for Vasari's too notorious inaccuracies, deliberate misstatements, and random jumpings at conclusions, we have the right to accept him here as a first-rate authority.

The analogous documents show that numerous inaccuracies have been committed.

As they discern with great exactness, they comprehend but a narrow compass, and know nothing of the justness of the design, the general spirit of the performance, the artifice of connection, or the harmony of the parts; they never, conceive how small a proportion that which they are busy in contemplating bears to the whole, or how the petty inaccuracies, with which they are offended, are absorbed and lost in general excellence.

The facts upon which Mrs. Macdonald lays so much stressthe mutilations, the additions, the instructing notes, the proved inaccuracy of the story the manuscripts tellthese facts, no doubt, may be explained by Mrs. Macdonald's theories; but there are other factsno less important, and no less certainwhich are in direct contradiction to Mrs. Macdonald's view, and over which she passes as lightly as she can.

Added to this, their uncurbed violence in discussion, their constant interruptions during the speeches of opponents, their reckless inaccuracy in matters of fact, were all bars standing in the way of the thoughtful.

* We will not multiply instances of this scandalous inaccuracy.

Textual inaccuracy is a grave fault in the new edition of an old poet; and Mr. Farr is not only liable to this charge, but also to that of making blundering misstatements which are calculated to mislead the careless or uncritical reader.

But if prefaces cannot be described with mathematical accuracy, they admit of classification with most unmathematical inaccuracy.

" The next day the following was printed by the same paper: Sir,The Rev. H. Anders has with questionable delicacy and unquestionable inaccuracy assured the world through your columns that the author of Scenes of Clerical Life and Adam Bede is Mr. Joseph Liggins, of Nuncaton.

Sir George Templemore was inquiring concerning the recording of deeds, a regulation that had recently attracted attention in England; and one of Mr. Effingham's replies contained some immaterial inaccuracy, which Aristabulus took occasion to correct, as his first appearance in the general discourse.

And as he was not averse to controversy, or, at any rate, found himself often involved in it, he was betrayed sometimes into assertions and contradictions of the most astounding inaccuracy, which seriously weakened his authority when he was called upon to accept the responsibility of exerting it.

I own, I returned from the Hebrides with a considerable degree of faith in the many stories of that kind which I heard with a too easy acquiescence, without any close examination of the evidence: but, since that time, my belief in those stories has been much weakened,[1068] by reflecting on the careless inaccuracy of narrative in common matters, from which we may certainly conclude that there may be the same in what is more extraordinary.