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And this one thing at least is certain; whatever history teaches, whatever it omits, whatever it exaggerates or extenuates, whatever it says and unsays, at least the Christianity of history is not Protestantism.

Newman's miracle and a purple passage 2009

However as a physician people forget that I still have cerebral palsy and the silly criticism is unsays and foolish.

Healthy Harlem: The Disabled African-American Male; A Personal Testimony « 2009

And this one thing at least is certain; whatever history teaches, whatever it omits, whatever it exaggerates or extenuates, whatever it says and unsays, at least the Christianity of history is not Protestantism.

Archive 2009-07-01 2009

But look ye, Starbuck, what is said in heat, that thing unsays itself.

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

"He's been moaning nearly all night, poor fellow! he's in a terrible way now;" and then the reply, "Ah, the doctor never unsays any thing!"

Louis' School Days A Story for Boys

On the l0th of June, nearly a month later, in his report to the war office, he virtually unsays what was then published and animadverts on Generals

Recollections and reflections : an auto of half a century and more, 1906

Mr. Sumner's speech in the Senate unsays no part of his Faneuil Hall pledge.

American Eloquence, Volume 2 Studies In American Political History (1896) Various 1899

And in the last essay of all he makes a campaign against bad laws, which unsays many of his previous sayings on the blessedness of custom.

Montaigne and Shakspere 1894

And having said somewhere that the philosophers who were destitute of true piety had shone with the light of virtue, he unsays it in his book of

Treatise on the Love of God 1567-1622 1884

But look ye, Starbuck, what is said in heat, that thing unsays itself.

Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855