Others are encumbered with extraneous matter, and, so encumbered, err on the side of bulk and superfluity.
Standards of fitness that are set up for the measure of a body of students so numerous as those in medicine, rarely err on the side of severity.
Nor can we err in such a supposition, since the very perfection of charity consists in its excess.
At the same time, he had no desire that in regard to ourselves we should err on the side of leniency.
If we must err in one direction or the other, let it be in that of gentleness.
In the present example, therefore, we shall not probably err in reading the inscription Nicholas engraved, or cut, this cave.
To this source, therefore, we can hardly err in referring much of the peculiar character ascribable to Scottish Ecclesiology, which it is attempted here to reduce to some system.
We shall not perhaps greatly err in limiting the era of the Norrie's Law tumulus from the third to the sixth century.
We shall not probably greatly errin assuming these to be the first "morning stars" of that old twilight, in the uncertain light of which we are groping for some stray truths of the infancy of history.
To exclude the moral order from our consideration is to err at the very commencement of our course, and our progress will be but from error to error.
We do not mean that they err in respect to the point of fact that these miseries have always existed and will exist.
The sinner first judges in a particular case that he should prefer the good of pleasure or of utility to the good of virtue, or he first neglects to consider the right manner in which he should act: "They err that work evil" (Prov.
It is clear that this kind of error need not precede sin, or else all sinners would err against the faith.
