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Does that false name vitiate the marriage By no means,' replied the bishop, promptly.— The Bishop's Secret
But though there is an inaccuracy in saying that the freezing of water is due to the loss of its heat, no practical error arises from it; nor will a parallel laxity of expression vitiate our statements respecting the multiplication of effects.— Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library
The correction is indeed, so obvious that we may well wonder that it had escaped his predecessors; but we must wonder ten times more that one of his successors, in a blind reverence for the old copy, should re-vitiate the text, and defend a corruption which outrages language, taste, and common sense Although at an earlier period of life I too adopted Theobald's supposed emendation, it never satisfied me.— Notes and Queries, Number 47, September 21, 1850
"I have furthermore kept him segregated from all that could in any way vitiate or vulgarise; he has had the ablest tutors and been my constant companion, and to-day--I am told--all this is but his misfortune.— Peregrine's Progress
Such cases do not vitiate, they confirm, the principle--that a nation which has just gained variability without losing legality has a singular likelihood to be a prevalent nation No nation admits of an abstract definition; all nations are beings of many qualities and many sides; no historical event exactly illustrates any one principle; every cause is intertwined and surrounded with a hundred others.— Physics and Politics, or, Thoughts on the application of the principles of "natural selection" and "inheritance" to political society

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