not to the purpose
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There is some truth in all this; but it is not to the purpose.
From The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 by Various
This question, however, is not to the purpose of our present work, which respects landscape-painting only; it must be one of those left open to the reader's thoughts, and for future inquiry in another place.
From Modern Painters. Vol. III (of V) Containing Part IV. Of Many Things by John Ruskin
This is very ingenious and very true, and though not to the purpose for which I was seeking it p. 40yet will very well serve another.
From A Sketch of the Life of the late Henry Cooper Barrister-at-Law, of the Norfolk Circuit; as also, of his Father by William Cooper
Bridgman, Lord Chief-Justice—All this may be true, and yet this not to the purpose.
From State Trials, Political and Social Volume 1 (of 2) by Sir Harry Lushington Stephen
Christianity must prove its adaptation to the hour that now is; its adaptation to days gone by, is not to the purpose.
From The Cradle of the Christ A Study in Primitive Christianity by Octavius Brooks Frothingham
