It is a great mistake, however, as a rule, to admit of any other motive for selecting for public trusts, than qualification.
It is a great mistake to confound these two characters, one of which is a mere human embellishment of the ways of a wicked world, while the other draws near to the great end of human existence.
It is a great mistake to suppose that the Catholic believes what the church believes and teaches on any human authority.
It would be a great mistake as well as gross injustice to represent all or even many of them as actually or intentionally unbelievers in Christ, or to hold them to be, in the way of error, any thing more than heretics.
Now in providing for this last-mentioned service, the Government had made a great mistake, doubtless through their anxiety to escape any public attention.
John Fry, I am not blubbering; you make a great mistake, John.
Truly, my beloved, there is a great mistakein this, and it is general too.
There is a great mistake in Christians practice, in confounding these two.
This was a great mistake, for the wind blew the flames in the faces of the Spaniards, hurting them very much.
They were allowed to land, which has been considered a great mistake; for all along the shore the land is covered with grass high enough to form a fine ambuscade, where the arquebusiers could easily have been placed under cover.
I never doubted your powers, my dear marquis; and that is why I say those gentlemen have made a great mistake in treating you like an invalid.
Colonel Gray had been disgusted at the order to leave the side hill above the Twenty-eighth street crossing, thinking it a great mistake, and was also disgusted at the order to move down to the Union depot.
I took fifty or sixty of them into a church once, but afterward I was aware that I had made a great mistake.
Many of our Christian workers make a great mistake.
It is easy for us to find fault with Christians, rich Christians, and say they are cold and indifferent about the souls of men, but the history of the church proves that this is a great mistake.
But the history, the sad history, of many a struggling soul, shows that this is a great mistake.
But it is a great mistake to suppose that these are the only means to promote morality.
It is a great mistake to suppose that the material of which a garment is made is the most important consideration in selecting warm under-clothing.
It was a great mistake, after Lord John's announcement on Monday, to bring on the Chancery Reform Bill, on which they got beaten, and suffered a severe and just rebuke from Peel.
The Whigs made a great mistake in having a second debate about Ellenborough in both Houses.
It would be a great mistake to eat dessert alone, and it is certainly a mistake to read light, frothy reading matter alone.
I then called on Colonel Royas, who told me that I had made a great mistake in saying that I was satisfied.
If the other circumstances do not follow, I must have made a great mistake in my calculations.
But I think you have made a great mistake in coming here without money.
But she did perceive, by the growing commotion within, that she had made a great mistake to come to this place.
It was still a great mistake to assume that what they had said or left unsaid had been decisive.
She felt almost certain that he would agree with her; it once that it would be a great mistake to rake up all this now, when it had all blown over and Dalhousie was doing so splendidly down in Texas.
Some thought the minister had made a great mistake to hire a woman, for the school was a hard one to manage, and even a master found it difficult to control the big boys.
It had been a great mistake to let him know she was the school-teacher, for though he did not know her assumed name he could easily find her now.
You make a great mistake, Miss Montgomery," said Silas, thoroughly alarmed now.
He was down here in the summer, and I made a great mistake.
Now it was a great mistake to think--as many people at this time did, both in Yorkshire and Derbyshire--that the gulf of connubial cares had swallowed the great Roman hero Mordacks.
But she was making a great mistake--one which is frequently made by those who do not know how easily some Christian virtues and qualities are simulated by the unregenerate.
But, dear child, you must allow me to judge for you in some things, and I am convinced that you are making a great mistake.
Only she could not tell them that, and it would have been a great mistakeif she had done so.
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