965 examples of erred in sentences

It does not appear what good end could be gained, on the part of Providence, by the permission of these magical enchantments, supposing them supernatural; and if we imagine the Devil to have acted spontaneously, with a view to support his power and influence, he most manifestly erred in his design.

If they have erred much, the errors, even the minor ones, have been transformed into crimes.

"He was," he says, "the best, the kindest (and yet strict too) friend I ever had; and I look on him still as a father, whose warnings I have remembered but too well, though too late, when I have erred, and whose counsel I have but followed when I have done well or wisely.

Chameleons who can paint in white and black? 'Yet Chloe sure was formed without a spot' Nature in her then erred not, but forgot. 'With every pleasing, every prudent part, Say, what can Chloe want?'She wants a heart.

Or, on the other hand, that the latter erred in enduring at all to look on at and listen to such proceedings?

Then it was we who erred and did wrong in confiscating them; or (to clear your skirts and ours) it was at least Caesar who acted irregularly, he who ordered this to be done: yet you did not censure him at all.

I erred in haste, perhaps; I should have waited until you had a night's rest.

At the same time,while I do not presume to judge in the case of writers whom I know less fully than I happen to know Wordsworth and his contemporaries,it seems clear that the very greatest men have occasionally erred as to what parts of their writings might, with most advantage, survive; and that they have even more frequently erred as to what MS. letters, etc.,casting light on their contemporariesshould, or should not, be preserved.

At the same time,while I do not presume to judge in the case of writers whom I know less fully than I happen to know Wordsworth and his contemporaries,it seems clear that the very greatest men have occasionally erred as to what parts of their writings might, with most advantage, survive; and that they have even more frequently erred as to what MS. letters, etc.,casting light on their contemporariesshould, or should not, be preserved.

In the essay on Coleridge I attempted to characterize the European reaction against the negative philosophy of the eighteenth century: and here, if the effect only of this one paper were to be considered, I might be thought to have erred by giving undue prominence to the favourable side, as I had done in the case of Bentham to the unfavourable.

Abraham rose early in the morning, and took bread and a bottle of water, and laid it on her shoulder, and gave to her the child and let her go, which, when she was departed, erred in the wilderness of Beersheba.

Neither had the squire himself erred on the side of flattering his fellow-creatures.

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let there be No farther strife nor enmity Between us twain; we both have erred!

Ah I we must acknowledge that the deputies of the Seine and the Maires of Paris, misled like ourselves, erred in siding with the insurrectionists.

They have erred grievously in perverting history to their own purposes.

"No, we have not erred!

"The officer erred in granting a permit.

If such has been the usual doctrine of the grammarians, they have erred on the one side, as much as our philosopher, and his learned authorities, on the other.

We sometimes thought he erred by excess in this particular.

He searched his memory, but he could not discover in what particular he had erred, and he was forced to continue his anxious waiting, until the stars should choose to fight for him.

If Tayoga had erred either in omission or commission then the spirits that hovered about him forgave him, as when the night was thickest they gave the sign.

But, again, this quite obvious moral, that if we have our responsibility, if, in other words, we have not done all that we might and have been led away by temper and passion, we should, in order to avoid a repetition of such errors in the future, try and see where we have erred in the past, is precisely the moral that Mr. Churchill does not draw.

It erred, it lost itself amid this twofold confidence; it attempted what was far beyond its right and power; it misjudged the moral nature of man and the conditions of the social state.

It appears to me, therefore, that Carducci has erred in not taking a sufficiently broad view of the lines on which literary development proceeds; and also, more specifically, in failing to recognize the importance of the distinction between the ordinary and the dramatic eclogue.

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