"Misconceive" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... with an abstracted air. 'You misconceive me. I was thinking of others; and what do you ...
— Tancred - Or, The New Crusade • Benjamin Disraeli
... John spoke more gently. "You mustn't be surprised at anything from an accepted lover.—I'm sure you misconceive her. In fact, mother, I ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 89, March, 1865 • Various
... high priest, suspecting lest the king should misconceive that some treachery had been done to Heliodorus by the Jews, offered a sacrifice for the health of ...
— Deuteronomical Books of the Bible - Apocrypha • Anonymous
... upon the side in which Stewart's philosophy approximates to the empirical school, because the Utilitarians were apt to misconceive the position. They took Stewart to be the adequate representative of all who accepted one branch of an inevitable dilemma. The acceptance of 'intuitions,' that is, was the only alternative to thoroughgoing ...
— The English Utilitarians, Volume I. • Leslie Stephen
... for this manifestation of your kindness. Vanity does not lead me so far to misconceive your purpose as to appropriate the demonstration to myself; but it is not less gratifying to me to be made the medium through which Maine tenders an expression of regard to her sister Mississippi. It is moreover, with feelings of profound gratification ...
— Speeches of the Honorable Jefferson Davis 1858 • Hon. Jefferson Davis
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