He may have erred in his attempts to determine the nature of good; still he pointed out to all who aspire to a knowledge of the divine nature, an excellent road by which they may arrive at it.
While sometimes, in the light of future events, he seems to have erred in allowing his religious beliefs to tinge too much his political views, he was always perfectly sincere and never permitted expediency to brush aside conviction.
That he sometimes erred in his judgment cannot be denied, but the errors were honest, and in many cases were kindled and fanned into a flame by the crafty malice of third parties for their own pecuniary advantage.
First and forward, ye han erred in thassemblinge of your conseillours.
Ye han erred also, for ye han nat examined your conseil in the forseyde manere, ne in due manere as the caas requireth.
Ye han erred also, for ye han shewed to your conseillours your talent, and your affeccioun to make werre anon and for to do vengeance; / they han espyed by your wordes to what thing ye been enclyned.
If, however, the compilers have erred in a statement or an explanation, they do not wish to remain in the dark, and any light thrown upon a doubtful passage will be acknowledged by them with thanks.
Michael Angelo with a loud voice and on his knees craved pardon, pleading that he had not erred maliciously but through indignation, for he could not bear to be hunted away as he had been.
He could not believe that one who had been reared with such care, and in whose soul such sublime moral lessons had been inculcated, could haveerred willingly.
Pope vowed he had erred in the opposite direction, and had forborne to praise Lord Lansdowne up to the height of his deserts out of deference to his modesty.
A critic supposes he has done his part if he proves a writer to have failed in an expression, or erred in any particular point: and can it then be wondered at if the poets in general seem resolved not to own themselves in any error?
There is no doubt that some of them erred rather seriously in this matter.
Now you are bound to acknowledge how much you have erred in your son's case; possibly there may still be time to reclaim him from the path of wickedness.
You erred grievously in your husband's case--you acknowledge as much, by erecting this memorial to him.
If anyone, however, supposed that the spirit had gone out of Peter through his friendship with Nestie, heerred greatly, and this Robert Cosh learned to his cost.
But here he was Titanic, and Punch's welcome was well deserved, though the critic erred in ranking Rubinstein the composer on the same plane with Rubinstein the performer.
In estimating its artistic importance, Punch erred in his refusal to discriminate between eccentricity and independence.
It is of course understood that Asshurbanapal was not the last ruler of Nineveh, and that the Greek myth, if based upon his life, erred in associating him with the final catastrophe.
They seem to have thus erred through not discriminating between that which is good simply, and that which is good in respect of a particular individual.
It happened sometimes, however, that bodily leprosy was miraculously cured by the legal rite, when the priest erred in his judgment.
The Scribes and Pharisees erred about the judicial precepts in two ways.
Though meaning well, yet she erred in her prayers, for the journey of Augustine was the means of his salvation.
Where other eminent authors have produced mechanical books, or books which were mere repetitions of their most popular effort, she erred only on the side of the ponderous and the distressing.
Still, Acton, if he erred here, erred on the nobler side.
And as Mr. Mansel has stated distinctly some of the points in which he conceives that I have erred in deviating from the doctrines of Kant, I should wish to make a few remarks on those points.
The Roman Church was founded by God alone; she never has erred and never will err, and no man is a Catholic who is not at peace with her.
Let those who never erred forget His worth, in vain bewailings; Sweet Soul of Song!
That he has erred in some particulars, may be true, but he has traveled far out on the highways of nature, and, in the main, he is right.
If Mr. Jefferson had read Common Sense before the writing of the Declaration, he would never have erred so in regard to this fact.
If Harriett's fancy erred in one direction, Mr. Hogg's animosityerred in another.
At this time my best friends, even, had almost given me up as a poet; they said that they had erred with regard to my talents.
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