There might be fitter subjects to allure; Still, neither misconceive my portraiture Nor undervalue its adornments quaint: What seems a fiend perchance may prove a saint.
I can hardly misconceive you; it would prove me deaf and blind; But although I take your meaning, 't is with such a heavy mind!
My present intention is to elaborate certain salient features of this scheme which, however close we may stand to its colossal structure, are already so clearly defined that we find it inexcusable to either misconceive or ignore.
Let no one, while this System is still in its infancy, misconceive its character, belittle its significance or misrepresent its purpose.
You misconceive the knight, noble baron," said the friar.
But in his own time it came upon ears which were naturally disposed to misconceive it.
Plato--whom we refer to, because he is the coryphaeus of all the diverse host of Greek philosophy--seems to overestimate or rather to misconceive the place of knowledge.
To reduce all the utterances of the prophets and the apostles to definite forms and rigid dogmas, was to misconceive the situation.
To work without a plan at all, is not merely to tax the memory beyond its powers, but probably also to misconceive and jumble the facts.
For while people who have direct access canmisconceive what they see, no one else can decide how they shall misconceive it, unless he can decide where they shall look, and at what.
But Eveena could read my feelings in spite of my words, and knew that the pain she had given was too recent to allow me to misconceive her penitence.
I have said," he replied, "that on that point you misconceive our respective positions.
At any rate, Acton demanded that the historian must never misconceive the case of the adversaries of his views, or leave in shade the faults of his own side.
Wiseman came tomisconceive the words of the Review, 444 et seq.
Your feelings are very natural, when such causes exist to produce them; but you misconceive your case, and, consequently, do not advert to the proper remedy.
To suppose Christ in us to offer prayer to one of his saints, instead of directly to the Father, is to blaspheme Christ, and utterly misconceive the nature of prayer.
There is an all-inclusive Christ, and the fundamental error of most of those who oppose Augustinianism is that they misconceive the union of the believer with Christ.
When we revolt against primitive facts, we equally misconceive the constitution of our intelligence and the end of philosophy.
It is impossible to misconceive the common principle which animates them, the unity of their method.
If we misconceive this fundamental matter, the enterprise must fail; that is both logically clear and clear in the sad light of history; but if we conceive it aright, we may confidently expect the enterprise to prosper.
To deny will to creatures lower than man, as some writers have done, is to misconceive the nature of the process that issues in action.
In which case, we may tax him with more or less inconsistency, but we should not misconceive him.
It is fatally easy to misconceive what presents itself in our experience.
If I say that mind is the reality of which the brain is the appearance, I misconceive what is meant by the distinction between appearance and reality (Chapter V).
No, my dear, Mr. Merton will much misconceive you unless you let me explain everything.
I never betrayed a client, Madam, and if you mean that I am likely to help this person into your uncle's arms, you greatly misconceive me, and the nature of my profession.
