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4423. LANGUAGE, Distorting.—
When
we see inspired writings made to speak whatever
opposite controversialists wish them to say, we
cannot ourselves expect to find language incapable
of similar distortion. My expressions
were general; their perversion is in their misapplication
to a particular case.—
To C. Hammond. Washington ed. vii, 216.
(M.
1821)
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