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Example sentences for "great error"

  • Whoever then thinks by a few rapid marches to gain a start, and more easily to recover a firm standing, commits a great error.

  • Chronic endometritis is where the disease has lasted for a long time; some authorities consider it a rare affection, but this is a great error.

  • But when the same eminent authority designates the procreative act as brute instinct, I think he is in great error, for that is not so.

  • Lewis was now sensible that he had committed a great error when he had roused against himself at once the spirit of Protestantism and the spirit of Popery.

  • The united force of reason and interest had doubtless convinced him that his passions and prejudices had led him into a great error.

  • Yet it would be a great error to imagine that our princes merely reign and never govern.

  • But here also there is a great error in the common practice.

  • This is a great error, and only paralleled by that of a certain writer elsewhere noticed, who denies the existence of all ellipsis whatever.

  • But, with regard to this matter also, there is a great error in the common practice.

  • It would nevertheless be a great error to assign only a trifling importance to the agency of eminent individuals, or of governments.

  • It would yet be a great error to offer this large generalization as any explanation of the inductive process.

  • It is a great error to think that these corruptions of language do no harm.

  • But it would be a great error to infer from the increase of complaint that there has been any increase of misery.

  • It would therefore be a great error to ascribe the conduct of Lewis to apprehensions at all resembling those which, in our age, induced the Holy Alliance to interfere in the internal troubles of Naples and Spain.

  • But it would be a great error to infer from such irregularities that the English monarchs were, either in theory or in practice, absolute.

  • Though he had as little booklearning as the most stupid ploughboys of England, it would have been a great error to put him in the same intellectual rank with such ploughboys.

  • He relented: and Treves was spared, [107] In truth he could hardly fail to perceive that he had committed a great error.

  • He would only have fallen into 'a great error.

  • But it would be a great error to suppose I would give fifteen millions for the territory in dispute between New Mexico and Texas.

  • Mr. Madison's administration committed a great error at the expiration of the charter of the first Bank of the United States, in not reviving the currency of the constitution for the federal Treasury, and especially the gold currency.

  • Flourens, Mr. Darwin's great error is that he has personified Nature (p.

  • That was a very natural and very obvious suggestion, and a highly ingenious one, though it happened to be a great error.

  • It would be a great error to suppose that these organic remains were fragmentary relics.

  • Now most surely those who dispute obstinately concerning the hour are in a great error.

  • I did not lead him into inordinacy but he himself was in a great error.

  • It would be a great error to imagine such to have been the cause.

  • It would be a great error to imagine that they were to be found only in the camp or in the garrisons of cities.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    great actor; great anxiety; great applause; great banquet; great church; great commander; great criminal; great fortune; great lord; great number; great prowess; great quantities; great sacrifice; great soldier; great splendour; great state; great talents; great that; great time; great way; greater numbers; greatest happiness; greatly diminished; greatly distinguished; greatly increased; greatly interested