"Half-hatched" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... were in great part voluntary commissions, passages interpolated, and meanings forged for certain purposes; sometimes to sanction the new creed of a half-hatched sect, and sometimes with an intention to destroy all scriptural authority by a confusion, or an omission of texts—the whole was left open to the option or the malignity of the editors, who, probably, like certain ingenious wine-merchants, ...
— Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 (of 3) • Isaac D'Israeli |
