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  • Modernist scholars do not reject these tools, but they make two emendations.
  • Compositors often introduced changes in spelling and punctuation, and sometimes made substantive emendations as well.
  • This necessitated some retrospective emendation of the original claims to make the new theory minimally plausible.
  • The text itself is ancient, handicapped by scribal errors and emendations of hostile censors over the centuries.
  • textual emendations made by the editor.
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  • Another principle of textual criticism which, thankfully, is not practised as frequently as it once was, is 'conjectural emendation'.
  • The theologian, however, could argue that there are instances which might validly call for emendation.
  • The minutes of last year's meeting in Victoria, BC, were accepted without emendation.
  • The topic starter also does not have the right to decide without possibility of emendation where the topic should go and stay.
  • Edward Capell defined an acceptable emendation as one that 'improves the Author, or contributes to his advancement in perfectness'.
  • B. 's conjectural emendation, "recuse" for "secure," but that, unless my memory and Ayscough are both deceptive, the word "recuse" is nowhere to be found in Shakspeare; nor, as far as I know, in any dramatist of the age. Notes and Queries, Number 196, July 30, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc
  • Derek Manders, as he made his emendation, gave Sutcliffe a swift glance of complicity, as if they were in a game together. POLITICAL SUICIDE
  • The difficulty in the Plate Recognition is skew emendation.
  • I will be grateful to receive emendations and further items.
  • Textual criticism and emendation was the order of the day for scholars.
  • Other emendations, while also worthwhile, consist more of refinements addressed to specialists than to general readers.
  • The emendation of this genus is based on new observations of its type.
  • If our readers can supply emendations or corrections, we would be pleased to receive them.
  • Are his 688 emendations of the copy-text acceptable?
  • Who among us would acknowledge that our best emendations are guesses?
  • This is a compilation of the essential characteristics of Mexicaprina as presented in the original description and subsequent emendation.
  • Tactfully, she suggested to the editors at OUP that they make the necessary emendation silently lest the shock of being faulted be too much for my superannuated frame.
  • Such emendations have been kept as few as possible.
  • Naturally, this critical simplification of mine calls for numerous emendations.
  • Most of these editorial emendations, very few of which are supported by textual notes, would have been better left unmade.
  • This change also would necessitate emendations to some of the diagnoses for these higher level taxa.
  • But traditionally liberal education involved hard work in the shape of textual analysis and emendation.
  • State-Zionism is an ideology based on an absolute conviction, one impervious to history and experience, to emendation and to compromise.
  • No doubt this is a felicitous emendation, though I think it may be fairly objected that a rumourer, being one who deals in what he hears, as opposed to an observer, who reports what he sees, there is a certain inappropriateness in speaking of a rumourer's eyes. Notes and Queries, Number 201, September 3, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc
  • An amusing instance of his classical emendations occurs in the text of Shakspeare.
  • In the early seventeenth century it appeared in an Italian translation that reflected certain Italian sensibilities and was republished a number of times with emendations. Seder Mitzvot Nashim.
  • The textual apparatus records scribal alterations and editorial emendations as specified above.
  • No liberty, however, has been taken with the text, either in the way of emendation or addition or in rendering them into English.
  • This scheme started from errors that prompted surgical pathology report emendation.
  • As for the "loving conductor's hands," I believe it is now becoming evident that conductorial emendations have been no more helpful for Ives than for Bruckner. Ivesiana
  • the manuscript contained unoriginal emendations
  • Robert Bloomfield (2007) presents the text of The Farmer's Boy edited from the manuscript which Bloomfield copied out so as preserve a version of his magnum opus free from his patron's emendations. Introduction: Tim Fulford
  • About half of the 688 emendations of the copy-text incorporated in the Centenary text had first appeared in 1860.
  • In that regard a slight emendation to footnote 16 on page 7 is needed, I believe.
  • Textual criticism and emendation was the order of the day for scholars, with translation, prose and verse composition, and the study of metrical forms being the staple for students.
  • Alterius loci emendationem serio optabat, quem corruptum esse ille non invenit. Anatomy of Melancholy
  • Square brackets indicate an emendation.
  • Such emendations to the 'classics' on the part of famous conductors were once common practice.
  • Churchill's clarifications and emendations, convincing or otherwise, are not likely to mollify his opponents.
  • The paper introduces system structure, gamma ray testing, core location, sample depth emendation and so on.
  • It is a rough draft without revision or emendation.
  • Finally there is the considerable group of emendations in the Centenary text that were introduced by the editor.
  • The paper introduces system structure, gamma ray testing, core location, sample depth emendation and so on.
  • Massuet's emendation of the text has been adopted, ep 'autou for ep' auton. ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus
  • Its chief value consists in the novel treatment of the metrical questions and their bearing on the emendation of the text.
  • First, to dispense with the comparison of editions: apart from an altered layout and a few minor elisions and emendations, the book is the same as it ever was (as the lyric goes).

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