Thus, included in Kant's criticism is the claim that the category of existence is being subject to a transcendental misemployment (A598/B626). ❋ Grier, Michelle (2007)
The influence that we might have acquired over our fellow-men, thus winning them over to think of and practise "all things lovely and of good report," if it be neglected, is surely a sin of deeper dye than the misemployment of mere money. ❋ An English Lady (N/A)
Nor so far as we are aware is there in Milton's writings the slightest trace of sorrow for the misemployment of his best years or consciousness of the ruin which it had wrought in his genius as a poet. ❋ Goldwin Smith (1866)
But I do not think that a democratic power is naturally without force or without resources: say, rather, that it is almost always by the abuse of its force and the misemployment of its resources that a democratic government fails. ❋ Unknown (1838)
But I do not think that a democratic power is naturally without resources: say rather, that it is almost always by the abuse of its force, and the misemployment of its resources, that a democratic government fails. ❋ Alexis De Tocqueville (1832)
It will not be a misemployment of time to consider now the next document laid before the College, to enable them to form their opinion, -- the Report of Dr. Albers, dated in March, and sent from St. Petersburg; -- this gentleman, who was at the head of a commission sent by the Prussian government to Moscow, states, that at St. Petersburgh, ❋ William Fergusson (1809)
The ideas of pure reason cannot be, of themselves and in their own nature, dialectical; it is from their misemployment alone that fallacies and illusions arise. ❋ Immanuel Kant (1764)
In the first place, I see no such custom; and if there was such a custom, there was the most abusive misemployment of it. ❋ Edmund Burke (1763)
There are conditions of life to which they must be forever estranged, and there are epochs of life too, after which the endeavor to attain them would be a great misemployment of time. ❋ Unknown (1760)
I'm tired … tired of unemployment, underemployment, and misemployment tired of having to forge my own way tired of being compliant tired of trying to keep hope alive tired, yet very determined ❋ Unknown (2009)
Is it the pintch of unempolyment, under or misemployment, lack of sponsership to further their studies, or is it that now they know its important to vote? ❋ Unknown (2009)
"The Wanderer," pitying the fortunes and miseries of the author, yet his ungovernable temper and depraved propensities, which led to his embruing his hands in blood, his ingratitude to his patrons and benefactors, (but chiefly to Pope,) and his degraded misemployment of talents which might have raised him to the capital of the proud column of intellect of that day, -- all conduce to petrify the tear of mingled mercy and compassion, which the misfortunes of such a being might otherwise demand. ❋ Various (N/A)
