10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MISQUOTER»
Discover the use of
misquoter in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
misquoter and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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How To Do Things With Shakespeare: New Approaches, New Essays
In the possibly Shakespearean scenes of Edward III, for instance, a morally
improper misquoter (King Edward) is reformed by a morally conscientious
misquoter (the Countess of Salisbury). Rather than merely quoting or referring to
biblical ...
... any difficult passage whatever, must find fault : and ia my own defence, I must
give the reader another sample to add to the list of unpardonable blunders he
has made in charging me with being a "misquoter." He asserts that I refer to Deut.
5.
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The Every-day Philosopher in Town and Country
Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd. statement exists in Scripture : the words which
follow the mention of death being, " and after this the judgment." But the
misquoter of Scripture declined to accept the correction, declaring that he thought
his ...
Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd, 1863
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The New sporting magazine
But I am running on in nedias ues, as a misquoter— ignorant of the language he
wished to quote — lately said. How is the Hunt flourishing? What is the report of
Melton ? What sort of a gathering did Kirby Gato present at the first meet ? and ...
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The Orthodox journal and Catholic monthly intelligencer [ed. ...
How *ocan any one suppose that our resin would be safe, if its ministers « placed
uuder their controul ? — these convictions on my mind, I •Jlhat the hint which I
threw out »"ktler, signed " No Misquoter," Wished iu your Journal for Septem- ...
William Eusebius Andrews, 1815
56 Hesketh Pearson famously wrote, “Misquotations are the only quotations that
are never misquoted”; not so famously, three pages later he wrote about Thomas
Heywood, “The misquoter is now misquoted.”57 Misquotations are abundant ...
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Pamphlets on British Politics: 1819
... with ' you, I think I shall convince even yourself, that the Author of this Preface
of yours-, is entitled to no sort of respect as a controversialist, and is to be treated
like any other garbler or misquoter, when he writes of the compositions of others.
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Donne's Augustine: Renaissance Cultures of Interpretation
... as Julie Maxwell has suggested, 'Renaissance writers were taught to misquote
creatively'.39 T. W. Baldwin points out that '[t]he standard Renaissance
justification for contextual misquotation was that the misquoter might make “better
use”, ...
9
Genesis - Fact Or Fiction
Lucifer, the most prolific misquoter of scripture since the world began, will always
be waiting to take advantage of whatyou do not know. He even attempted to
confuse Jesus by misquoting scriptures in Matthew 4:1—11. Follow me into
awhat if: ...
Jonn Doughe, Arthur Abraham, 2004
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Cobbett's Political Register
... maritime power, which this " country now possesses, not a ship nelong- " ing to
any other nation should be suffered* " to pass the seas, but upon conditions pre- "
scribed by us." You are, Sir, without exception, the- most flagrant misquoter, ...
5 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MISQUOTER»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
misquoter is used in the context of the following news items.
Ten film quotes we all get wrong
This is the misquoter's misquote, its place in cinema history cemented when compulsive reference dropper Woody Allen used it as the title of ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jan 14»
Please fire Maureen Dowd … or get her a fact-checker
Making matters worse: The misquoter was New York Times political columnist Maureen Dowd. And Maureen Dowd has something of a history ... «Salon, Aug 13»
Conservatives and Reporters Fell for This Republican's Misquote …
But it wasn't just partisans who found it Friday afternoon catnip—bored political journos latched onto the quote, and the original misquoter, ... «Slate Magazine, Aug 13»
The Fake Voice Within
But generally, the writer can challenge the attribution and force the misquoter to provide proof that the writer actually wrote such. This is ... «PC Magazine, Oct 11»
Ask Not Where This Quote Came From
Kennedy was also, however, a misquoter of eloquence, who showed how creative and unreliable memory can be when using comments others ... «Washington Post, Jun 06»
