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Example sentences for "emendations"

Lexicographically close words:
embued; emed; emen; emend; emendation; emendatory; emended; ement; emerald; emeralds
  1. Considering the number and character of the emendations in MR.

  2. From his manuscript (G) of the Progresse of the Soule, or Metempsychosis, I have also obtained important emendations of the text.

  3. Plumer entered Pietersburg on April 8 without opposition, Beyers, who had been falling back before him from Warmbaths, having evacuated the town.

  4. Burges was a man of great learning and industry, but too fond of introducing arbitrary emendations into the text of classical authors.

  5. I have translated the emendations suggested in brackets, for without them it is hardly possible to make sense.

  6. I hope that the change made in the wording of the above sentence from what stood in the first edition will satisfy my learned and acute critic, Mr. Linwood (Remarks on Conjectural Emendations as applied to the New Testament, 1873, p.

  7. And these emendations being made, Aristotle's view of the nature and force of Induction becomes, I think, perfectly clear and very instructive.

  8. I will first translate it, making such emendations as are requisite to render it intelligible and consistent, of which I shall afterwards give an account.

  9. I mention these as examples of necessary emendations of which the usual editions take no notice.

  10. Nearly all the emendations rest on authority; see the Critical Notes.

  11. Conjectural emendations have been suggested, but do not afford much help.

  12. Various attempts at conjectural emendations and redivision of clauses have been made in order to lighten the difficulties of the verse.

  13. Boissevain's invaluable emendations and interpretations have been liberally used by the present translator, and some of his changes of arrangement have been accepted outright, others only indicated.

  14. Medicean manuscripts and with collation of the codex Turinensis, besides emendations gathered from many new sources.

  15. From making fuller notes and emendations he was prevented by untimely death.

  16. Finally he gathered all possible emendations from as many as fourteen scholars who had suggested improvements in the text.

  17. Books Seventy-eight and Seventy-nine, and with many new and brilliant conjectural emendations by the editor.

  18. These improvements are execrable in style and in matter, so far as there is new matter, but not in so glaring contrast with the groundwork as literary emendations of traditional ballads.

  19. They are, as I have said, few of any kind: For of emendations I have been anxiously sparing.

  20. For some of the best of these emendations I have been indebted to one, in mentioning of whom I should have had an affectionate Pride: and have more in that Modesty which forbids the mention.

  21. The emendations of this Fragment are endless.

  22. At its conclusion the draught was referred for emendations to the special committee or deputation on matters of faith, to which were also sent full reports of all the discourses in the discussion.

  23. I hope and believe that he does not participate in the anger some have expressed, because I have been merely the medium of making known other emendations at least equally felicitous.

  24. There are a few emendations on the "Rime of Sire Thopas," and the following "Eulogium Chaucerj.

  25. We mark the emendations derived from it: ‘Dryden’s version.

  26. As none of the proposed emendations can be regarded as certain, we have left the reading of F1, though it is manifestly corrupt.

  27. Shortly afterwards Collier published all the 'essential' manuscript readings in a volume entitled Notes and Emendations to the Plays of Shakespeare.

  28. To use caution in accepting the chronological notices of the later kings is very far removed from suggesting emendations of their figures.

  29. Others have attempted to reconcile the conflicting data by emendations of the figures and other ingenious devices.

  30. Defects reveal themselves more fully in type, and emendations might be more conveniently made on proofs, since I have given up the idea of copying the MS.

  31. A friendly gentleman at Belfast sends me a list of emendations for some of my verses, which are very characteristic and amusing.

  32. Spanish writers; but her emendations are seldom happy.

  33. For an account of the discussion raised by Collier's emendations see C.

  34. In the present edition these emendations are, in most instances, transferred to footnotes.

  35. Here and at sundry other points in the Book there are incorporated passages marked "Additio," importing emendations made by the Lords upon the original document submitted by the Compilers.

  36. It is however worthy of notice that many emendations usually attributed to Rowe and Pope are really derived from one or other of these Players' Quartos.

  37. Opinions were, indeed, divided as to the intrinsic merit of the emendations or alterations.


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