Neither distorted through the blue glasses of pessimism-but another name for the failure of misapplication-nor through the wonderful rose-colored glasses of the dreamer.
"Garrison's Finish A Romance of the Race-Course"
W. B. M. Ferguson
It is a striking, but not a solitary, example of the misapplication of dialectic skill and learning, to find the thoughts of the present in the fancies of the past, and from a mistaken piety, to ignore the onward march of humanity.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill
But these were mistaken attributes, which arose from a misapplication of history.
"A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.)"
Jacob Bryant