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  • Arabic authors sometimes helped to overcome errone - ous conceptions of the Middle Ages (as the medieval tradition could help to overcome errors diffused by ancient scientific literature).

    HUMANISM IN ITALY PETER HERDE 1968

  • Man fears death because he errone - ously believes that he will experience pain and suffer after he has died.

    DEATH AND IMMORTALITY JACQUES CHORON 1968

  • Popper even thought, though errone - ously as he himself soon realized, to have proved his contention by the construction of a thought-experiment for the determination of the sharp values of position and momentum (Popper, 1934).

    INDETERMINACY IN PHYSICS MAX JAMMER 1968

  • One exception strenghens the view that this errone - ous conception of demand was fostered by the con - stancy of economic patterns.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas NICHOLAS GEORGESCU-ROEGEN 1968

  • This errone - ous general belief, which sustains medicine and

    Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures Mary Baker Eddy 1865

  • I thought that view - ing the errors of the past, was. the most certain way to avoid the future; and I am not at this time sepsible of that being errone - ous. ■ and if profecuted in the prefrnt divid - ed ttate of the country, I fear it may befatal to our moft valua - ble mftitutions.

    Congressional Reporter, Containing the Public Documents, and the Debates [in Congress] 1812

  • It was evidently lost, first, by the failure in the diversion from Charleston, secondly by the errone - ous plan of attack, and lastly by the deviation from orders in its execution.

    Memoirs of the war in the Southern department of the United States Lee, Henry, 1756-1818 1812

  • Penalty on perfons iffuing falfe or errone - ous certificates to evade the duty, 20 1.

    The London adviser and guide: containing every instruction and information ... 1790

  • Some have been more inquifitive about the time, than the thing, and have made very errone* ous calculations; injimiuch, that near a century is pajl fince the time which they fixed for that mar -

    Ten sermons on the Millennium; or, The glory of the latter days; and five sermons on what ... 1789

  • If, within the fourteen days next succeeding the day of the annual city election in any city, ten or more qualified voters in such city shall file with the city clerk a state - ment in writing that they have reason to believe that the record of ballots cast upon the question of granting licenses for the sale of intoxicating liquors in such city is errone - ous, the clerk shall forthwith transmit such statement to Acts, 1894. —

    Acts and resolves passed by the General Court 1663

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