John Selden Quote

We pick out a text here and there to make it serve our turn; whereas, if we take it all together, and considered what went before and what followed after, we should find it meant no such thing.


Table-talk, 1689, ed. by E. Arber. (Eng. repr.). (ed. 1689)


We pick out a text here and there to make it serve our turn; whereas, if we take it all together, and considered what went before and what followed...

We pick out a text here and there to make it serve our turn; whereas, if we take it all together, and considered what went before and what followed...

We pick out a text here and there to make it serve our turn; whereas, if we take it all together, and considered what went before and what followed...

We pick out a text here and there to make it serve our turn; whereas, if we take it all together, and considered what went before and what followed...