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...present day prose, it might be expressed thus--"You shall be free from illness in body or aberration in mind", and of those the second is the more important to the man himself, and of by far the greater moment to the rest of the world. If to err in thought is an evil, and to escape it a benefit to oneself and others, there is also a duty to keep one's mind from error and to think aright...
...thin, awkward composed figure ? standing upon an elevation from which, with deprecating gesture, he tossed down handfuls of grain to grubby statesmen who scrambled for them at his feet. Ludicrously exaggerated as this depiction appeared, what it implied was, as a generality, correct; nor did it err in what it suggested as to the thinness, mildness, composure of Trader Cutten. Such a man he is. He lives on a dirt farm in La Grange, Ill. He always answers questions, though sometimes cryptically. He does not brag. Once he was a clerk in a hardware store. Now he is reported...
...base their attacks on an appeal to the national conscience, they are unanswerable, and when their shafts rebound dully, as from an impenetrable surface, they induce a most unpleasant train of reflection. But when they urge the preservation of the Indian civilization as a reason for increased appropriations, they err...
...Confession of Faith does itself disclaim infallibility, saying "All synods, or councils, since the apostles' times . . . may err . . . and many have erred. . . . God alone is Lord of the conscience and hath left it free from the doctrines and commandments of men ... so that to believe such doctrines is to betray true liberty of conscience...
...League without substantial changes; and that was what the thirty-one Republicans, of whom I was one, certainly understood him to mean. No one will for a moment suspect him of the least insincerity; but an extremely busy man, burdened with the vast cares of a nation, may err in recollection...