[108] As usual, Nash has here misquoted, or the printer has omitted a word.

" This sounds dangerous; but the logic is not easily turned aside, and there is little left for the advocate of will-breaking but to fall back on some texts in the Bible, which have been so often misquoted in this connection that one can hardly hear them with patience.

misstate, misquote, miscite^, misreport, misrepresent; belie, falsify, pervert, distort; put a false construction upon &c (misinterpret); prevaricate, equivocate, quibble; palter, palter to the understanding; repondre en Normand

Down in the city the people but noted One who thought little of wealth and its ways; One whose true words were full often misquoted, One who laughed lightly at blame or at praise.

It was undoubtedly she to whom he referred when he made that little speech which Dies probably misquoted, in telling the answer Haydn gave him when he was asked what the letters were.

He hasn't misquoted a single line of what I said.

"How strangely the Lord moves, his wonders to perform," misquoted Barbara.

" "We are advertised by our loving wives," he misquoted teasingly.

" "A bed by night, a hard-wood floor by day," Ken misquoted murmurously.

They misquote thee, who veil a life of low intrigue with high-flown dicta borrowed from thy works.

If he is right about the meaning, however, the passages are mistranslated, as well as misquoted: they ought to be, "Sing unto the Lord, O ye his Saints.""Every

Worcester, who improperly pronounces leaped in two ways, "l~ept or l=ept," misquotes Walker, as saying, "it ought to be spelled lept.

Peirce has many times misquoted this text, or some part of it; and, what is remarkable, he nowhere agrees either with himself or with the Bible!

Once or twice Lewisham misquoted the testimonialto no purpose.

Old cookery-books, such as the misquoted work of Mrs. Glasse, Dr. Kitchener's Cook's Oracle, and the anonymous but admirable Culina, all concur in their testimony to the enormous amount of animal food which went to make an ordinary meal, and the amazing variety of irreconcilable ingredients which were combined in a single dish.

385, n. 3; colloquial, ii. 125, 404, 406; misquotes Horace, iv.

What M. Renan had to do, if he thought the contrary, was not to assume, but to prove, that in these repeated instances in which they report His announcements, the Evangelists mistook or misquoted the words of their Master.

The little honesty that exists among authors is discernible in the unconscionable way they misquote from the writings of others.

But Addison misquotes the first clause.

If I could hide their existence from him, I certainly would, lest he misquote and misinterpret them.

[Footnote B: In his "Recollections of Wordsworth," Aubrey de Vere reports a conversation, in which the poet said to him, "Scott misquoted in one of his novels my lines on 'Yarrow', He makes me write, 'The swans on sweet St. Mary's Lake Float double, swans and shadow;' but I wrote, 'The swan on still St. Mary's Lake.' Never could I have written 'swans' in the plural.

If possible, misquote.

" Bogle cherished a profound admiration for Lieutenant M'Lachlan both as a scholar and a strategist, and absorbed his deliverances with a care and attention which enabled him to misquote the same quite fluently to his own associates.

Another privilege of talking is to misquote.

But I was mightily pleased to see that one of the gentlemen that do the heavy articles for this magazine misquoted Campbell's line without any excuse.