"Wrongly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... worked, and failed, and sorrowed, and rejoiced again, unknown to fame. Whatsoever, meanwhile, their own conclusions may be on the subject-matter of the book, they will hardly fail to admire the extraordinary variety and fulness of Mr. Vaughan's reading, and wonder when they hear—unless we are wrongly informed—that he is ...
— Literary and General Lectures and Essays • Charles Kingsley
... susceptibilities of the rationalists of our times have their origin in the superstitious cult of the natural sciences. These, as we know and as is confessed by the mouth of their chief adepts, are all surrounded by limits. Science having been wrongly identified with the so-called natural sciences, it could be foreseen that the remainder would be asked of religion; that remainder with which the human spirit cannot dispense. We are therefore indebted ...
— Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic • Benedetto Croce
... has been made, and wrongly, to make a class of the bourgeoisie. The bourgeoisie is simply the contented portion of the people. The bourgeois is the man who now has time to sit down. A chair ...
— Les Miserables - Complete in Five Volumes • Victor Hugo
... the censure which was passed on the speaking or writing of discourses, and how they might be rightly or wrongly censured—did not ...
— Phaedrus • Plato
... others; but the bounds of the room, walls, ceiling, windows, floor, still displayed, with official unconcern, the grime and decay that is commonly thought good enough for men charged, rightly or wrongly, with crime. ...
— Dr. Sevier • George W. Cable
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