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... editor's apprehension is of a cast so different from mine , that he appears to find no difficulty in most of those passages which I have represented as unintelli- gible , and has therefore passed smoothly over them , without any attempt ...
... editor's apprehension is of a cast so different from mine , that he appears to find no difficulty in most of those passages which I have represented as unintelli- gible , and has therefore passed smoothly over them , without any attempt ...
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... editor , who can imagine that he is restoring poetry , while he is amusing himself with alterations like these : For This is the serjeant , Who like a good and hardy soldier fought ; This is the sergeant , who Like a right good 120 ...
... editor , who can imagine that he is restoring poetry , while he is amusing himself with alterations like these : For This is the serjeant , Who like a good and hardy soldier fought ; This is the sergeant , who Like a right good 120 ...
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... editor ; there is no reason given for any of the alterations which are made ; the emendations of former critics are adopted without any acknow- ledgement , and few of the difficulties are removed which have hitherto embarrassed the ...
... editor ; there is no reason given for any of the alterations which are made ; the emendations of former critics are adopted without any acknow- ledgement , and few of the difficulties are removed which have hitherto embarrassed the ...
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... editor may hope to supply ? The business of him that republishes an ancient book is , to correct what is corrupt , and to explain what is obscure . To have a text corrupt in many places , and in many doubtful , is , among the au- thors ...
... editor may hope to supply ? The business of him that republishes an ancient book is , to correct what is corrupt , and to explain what is obscure . To have a text corrupt in many places , and in many doubtful , is , among the au- thors ...
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... editor's de- termination , he may have the means of choosing bet- ter for himself . Where all the books are evidently vitiated , and collation can give no assistance , then begins the task of critical sagacity : and some changes may ...
... editor's de- termination , he may have the means of choosing bet- ter for himself . Where all the books are evidently vitiated , and collation can give no assistance , then begins the task of critical sagacity : and some changes may ...
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