"Contrary to fact" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "It is not contrary to fact. Good people in the Bible, good people in history, and to my personal knowledge, too, have been left to do outrageously wrong things. To err is human; and we are ...
— A Knight Of The Nineteenth Century • E. P. Roe
... it to a sad and lamentable degree, which has been shown to be chiefly owing to the negligence of their owners.—But that they are so stupid and unteachable, as that they cannot be brought to any competent knowledge in these matters, is false, and contrary to fact and experience. In regard to their work, they learn it, and grow dexterous enough in a short time. Many of them have learned trades and manufactures, which they perform well, and with sufficient ingenuity:—whence ...
— The Education Of The Negro Prior To 1861 • Carter Godwin Woodson |
