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When I had perused the first forty, I corrected thirty of them, would read over no more: I showed him how erroneous they were, desired his emendation of the rest, which he performed not. These were afterwards, in R. Saunders's custody, bought by him either of his son or of a stationer. When Mr. Saunders died I bought them of his son for less.
It occurred to me, that the change of a single letter, by substituting otio instead of odio, might restore a clear and consistent sense; but I wished to weigh my emendation in scales less partial than my own. I addressed myself to M. Crevier, the successor of Rollin, and a professor in the university of Paris, who had published a large and valuable edition of Livy.
That part of his labour which consisted in emendation and improvement of the productions of other contributors, like that employed in levelling ground, can be perceived only by those who had an opportunity of comparing the original with the altered copy.
I know the last cut dress several of the courtiers one valet-of-the-chamber, two pages of the body, the clerk of the kitchen, three running footmen, two dog-boys, and an honourable Scottish knight, Sir Munko Malgrowler." "Malagrowther, I suppose?" said Nigel, thrusting in his conjectural emendation, with infinite difficulty, betwixt two clauses of the barber's text.
Indeed without this emendation it would not be easy to construe the words, even if thnaton could bear the meaning which Mr. Croker ascribes to it without imminent danger of a flogging. Mr. Croker has also given us a specimen of his skill in translating Latin. Johnson wrote a note in which he consulted his friend, Dr. Lawrence, on the propriety of losing some blood.
And if I have succeeded in that, I am glad: if not, I yet console myself with this reflexion, that in future you will both come to the games and come to see me, and will not leave your hope of enjoyment dependent on my letters. But neither is the emendation proposed, cominus. He often expresses his want of interest in the latter.
His serious theological labours ranked above all others; and in these hard years, he devoted his best strength to preparation for the great edition of Jerome's works and emendation of the text of the New Testament, a task inspired, encouraged and promoted by Colet. For his living other books had to serve.
Allow me but a trifling emendation, and Matthew Arnold's lines will serve to indicate that romance. Substituting 'Zambesians' for 'Iberians, he gave us the last lines of 'The Scholar Gipsy. 'In that era of Tyre's trade, he concluded, 'I place the golden age of our country a golden age which under our own Imperial rule begins anew. 'H'm, said Spenser.
Confusions of sense and of words are explained by analogies of vocabulary or pronunciation, which naturally vary from language to language and from epoch to epoch. The general theory of conjectural emendation reduces to the sketch we have just given; there is no general apprenticeship to the art.
I am sure your impromptus give me double pleasure; what falls from your pen can neither be unentertaining in itself, nor indifferent to me. The one fault you found is just: but I cannot please myself in an emendation. What a life of solicitude is the life of a parent! You interested me much in your young couple. I would not take my folio paper for this epistle, and now I repent it.
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