Has there not been a misapprehension as to the bearing of this law or clause disfranchising or refusing to admit to the franchise Roman Catholics and persons not Christians, and as to Roger Williams’s doctrine of religious liberty?
From the misapprehension hereof, men omitting the opportunity of remedies, which otherwise they would not neglect.
Now this conceit is erected upon a misapprehension or mistake in the symtomes of vision; men confounding abolishment, diminution and depravement, and naming that an abolition of sight, which indeed is but an abatement.
Of the truth of this, there can arise no misapprehension when we compare it with the subsequent phrase with which it is contrasted--"a good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favor than silver and gold.
From this quotation there can arise no misapprehension as to Peter's application of the text, nor of the persons it involves.
He said that the fact of his return, if it became known to father, might be misunderstood by him, and the consequence of such a misapprehension would be serious injury to important interests.
Still, there may have been some mistake--some misapprehension on his part.
You have, therefore, committed a crime against the laws of your country, and you have also acted under a very serious misapprehension of the course which you ought to have pursued.
The misapprehension referred to above may have arisen from the resemblance between the title of my book and the series of articles which appeared in the Morning Post under the name of The Cause of World Unrest.
Unfortunately much misapprehension exists as to him and his cause.
Meantime in committing the book in its new form to the judgment of the public I desire to guard against a misapprehension of its scope which appears to be still rife, though I have sought to correct it before now.
The old limitations are found never to have had any existence save in our own misapprehension of the truth, and one by one they fall off as we advance into clearer light.
But all this exists in, and is produced by, our belief; and when we come to examine the grounds of this belief we shall find that it rests upon an entire misapprehension of the nature of our own power.
The not distinguishing between the mediate and immediate objects of sight is, I suspect, a cause of misapprehensionin this matter.
If there be anything which makes the generality of mankind averse from the notions I espouse: it is a misapprehension that I deny the reality of sensible things.
This was the principal cause of its misapprehension in the first place, and of its complete perversion in the second.
The misapprehension consists in overlooking the fact that the doctrine of Christ, and the doctrine formulated by a lower life-conception, guide men in very different ways.
From the very beginning of Christianity one could see from the Gospels, the Acts, and the Epistles how the misapprehension of the doctrine called forth the necessity of proofs--miraculous and beyond human intelligence.
The third paragraph quoted is a misstatement, due clearly to a misapprehension of what really was done.
Further, it might have been alleged in excuse for his act, that misapprehension of the Bible story of the patriarchs had dragged him to consequences which he had not foreseen.
In stating the foregoing facts, my object has been to show the practical workings of the system of slavery, and if possible to correct the misapprehension on this subject, so common at the north.
The COURT addressed the jury as follows: Gentlemen of the Jury: I have given this case such consideration as I have been able to, and, that there might be no misapprehension about my views, I have made a brief statement in writing.
The public was still further wrong when it attributed misapprehension and carelessness to a woman whom it very well knew to be incapable of either.
As O'Connell's writing was well known to Lord Brougham, and most of the noble lords who sat around him, there could be neither misapprehension nor imposition.
THE COURT addressed the jury as follows: Gentlemen of the Jury: I have given this case such consideration as I have been able to, and, that there might be no misapprehension about my views, I have made a brief statement in writing.
Does B's misapprehension of his rights justify his act?
Another misapprehension about the nature of poetry lies in identifying poetry with beauty.
That is all changed now, and there is a misapprehension that the Atlantic has been practically subdued; but no one ever gets beyond the "rolling forties" without having this impression corrected.
A misapprehension between Huskisson and the duke of Wellington led to the duke proposing an amendment, the success of which caused the abandonment of the measure by the government.
It is to be regretted that at this late hour so muchmisapprehension still exists on the side of the British Government as to the object and obvious meaning of the existing arrangements respecting the disputed territory.
This is a striking instance of the confusion of ideas introduced by false systems of study, and also of the considerable misapprehension of American mythology which has hitherto prevailed.
It is a perversion of terms--at least it is a great misapprehension of the case--which cites that expression for application to a State which has withdrawn from the Union.
It is not so much the inevidence of marks and fruits that makes them doubt, as the misapprehension of the thing itself, for as long as they mistake it in its own nature, no sign, no mark, can satisfy in it.
This is it, a misapprehensionof the value of them.
Now what a vain thing is it, an inordinate elevation of the heart upon a false misapprehension of the mind?
Now the other thing is, that the misapprehension of that wherein true excellence consists is the ground of many evils.
I speak these things the rather, because there is a twofold misapprehension of the gospel among Christians, and on both hands much darkness and stumbling is occasioned.
To obviate this objection his lordship, who did not, or who would not see the misapprehension of the young lady, observed that the Earl and Countess need not know anything of the arrangement.
