hastinesses

Updated: May 13, 2025

Froude's own argument cases where he made his own case worse by miscitation. To the very last, in his Erasmus itself, which he had prepared at some pains for the press, his work would always abound in the most astonishing slips of memory, oversights of fact, hastinesses of statement.

George Saintsbury - A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895)