miscitation

Updated: May 6, 2025

Herr Parish thinks three of the selected twenty-six cases very dubious. In the third, Herr Parish is wrong in his statement. This is a lovely example of the sceptical slipshod, and, accompanied by the miscitation of the second case, shows that inexactitude is not all on the side of the seers.

Andrew Lang - The Making of Religion

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)