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It was when I was busy with some literary work I had gotten from one of the printers in the town correcting proofs and looking out for misspellings in the compositions of an eminent hand. I will be plain it was poor work, and as poorly paid. But I could live on it, and in any case it was better than slaving at tutoring.
In his manuscripts there are many misspellings. He assigns to Terence a Horatian line and, in a letter to Garrick, quotes as Horatian the standard mens sana in corpore sano of Juvenal.
The academic reviewer is besotted by facts, or their absence. The most precious part of the review to him is the last paragraph in which he points out misspellings, bad punctuation, and inaccuracies generally. Like a hound dog in a corn field, he never sees his books as a whole, but snouts and burrows along the trail he is following.
Misspellings omitted, it ran thus: "Sir, If so be you wants to know where you come from, and where to look for them as belongs to you, come to the public at the foot of the hill this evening, with a few pounds in your pocket to open the lips of them as knows. But fair play, mind. Gearge bean't such a vool as a looks, and cart-horses won't draw it out of un, if you sets on the police.
What authority have we now, save this very life, which could compare with those Jewish books which were so binding in their force, and so immutably sacred that even the misspellings or pen-slips of the scribe, were most carefully preserved?
Louis. It includes all possible Journal entries of Lewis and Clark. Most of the "courses and distances" and "celestial observations" have been omitted. The notes and most of the corrections of past editors have been removed. There are a few OCR errors, but most of the misspellings are almost 200 years old. The dates with the names in the brackets are a little redundent.
The lists there given, though very useful to us now, contain a great many errors misspellings of names, entries of persons as still alive who were dead some time, &c. There were two classes of these Champions, though not a few individuals belonged to both classes: I. The Political Champions, or Champion Peers and Commoners. The Champion Commoners were, of course, a much larger multitude.
But she was fain to ask for an occasional explanation of some obscurity in the text. It was manifestly a dictated letter, written in a shaky hand as of an old person, but not an uneducated one by any means; the misspellings being really intelligent renderings of the pronunciation of the dictator.
How was this? Why, in order to have an opportunity of holding up pseudo-critics by the tails, he wilfully spelt various foreign words wrong Welsh words, and even Italian words did they detect these misspellings? not one of them, even as he knew they would not, and he now taunts them with ignorance; and the power of taunting them with ignorance is the punishment which he designed for them a power which they might but for their ignorance have used against him.
To Andrea are given all those on the west , south , east , and the two eastern ones on the north; to Luca the remaining five on the north. Only Ruskin in his best mood of fury could begin to do justice to the misspellings and mispunctuations of this terrible production.
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