"Transcriber" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... [Transcriber note: Next line was corrected per erratum. The original text was of the following paragraph (Averages for 17 adult females: ...
— Life History of the Kangaroo Rat • Charles T. Vorhies and Walter P. Taylor
... [Transcriber's Note: This edition is from Microfiche. All copies that I've found are marked "Photographed from an imperfect copy." Printer errors have been left as is, but noted. We cannot account for the accuracy in some of the numbers, where the original was exceptionally difficult to read. Where ...
— The Art of Making Whiskey • Anthony Boucherie
... by negligence or affectation changed to sun, which, considered without the rhyme, is indeed better. The next transcriber, finding that the word right did not rhyme to sun, supposed it erroneously ...
— Johnson's Notes to Shakespeare Vol. I Comedies • Samuel Johnson
... Nights. It is rudely written, with great carelessness and frequent corrections, and there is a noted improvement in the subsequent vols. which Scott would attribute to another transcriber. This, however, I doubt: in vol. i. the scribe does not seem to have settled down to his work. The MS. begins abruptly and without caligraphic decoration; nor is there any red ink in vol. i. except for the terminal three words. The topothesia is in the land of Sasan, ...
— Supplemental Nights, Volume 5 • Richard F. Burton
... [Transcriber's note: The letter reads thus (words that I'm not sure of are marked with asterisks) "Es geht schon liebe A. besser wenn Sie es anstaendig heissen, allein zu mir zu kommen, so koennen Sie mir eine grosse Freude machen, ist [a]ber dass Sie dieses ...
— Beethoven • George Alexander Fischer
... [Transcriber's Note: This Table of Contents does not appear in the original book. It has been added to this ...
— Searchlights on Health - The Science of Eugenics • B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols
... confused in the three copies. The transcriber of M. has wrongly made the viviendo acephalos of the Ayer copy, bebiendo a sed [i.e., drinking when thirsty?] which hardly makes sense. That MS. continues, "and in confused anarchy," which is better than the Ayer reading. D. reads "Who besides having been ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 40 of 55 • Francisco Colin
... case the banana man brings me some pink oranges for the elephant's little boy, I'll tell you in another story about Uncle Wiggily and the mud pie.[Transcriber's Note: in the above sentence, the word "tell" was omitted in the ...
— Uncle Wiggily's Adventures • Howard R. Garis
... Transcriber's Note: | | | | Inconsistent hyphenation in the original document has | | been preserved. | | | | Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. For | | a complete list, please see the end of this document. | | | | The erratum inserted between page xx and page xxi has | ...
— The Journal of Submarine Commander von Forstner • Georg-Guenther von Forstner
... [Transcriber's note: John XV:12-13—"This is my commandment: love one another as I love you. No one has greater love than this, to lay down one's ...
— The Gaunt Gray Wolf - A Tale of Adventure With Ungava Bob • Dillon Wallace
... dryly, her heart gone down too far to be plucked up by futile contradition [Transcriber's note: contradiction?]. He mused a moment, seeking the best method of broaching a subject that had been growing in his mind for the past week. Frankness seemed the most ...
— The Emigrant Trail • Geraldine Bonner
... on pp. 52 and 53 [Transcriber's Note: "There stood the champagne," etc., in ACT I] is the last line of a very well-known poem by Johan Sebastian Welhaven, entitled Republikanerne, written in 1839. An unknown guest in a Paris restaurant has been challenged by a noisy party of young Frenchmen ...
— Little Eyolf • Henrik Ibsen
... on the score of careful editorship. Neither Orelli nor D'Ancona has done much to clear up the difficulties of the poems—difficulties in many cases obviously due to misprints and errors of the first transcriber; while in one or two instances they allow patent blunders to pass uncorrected. In the sonnet entitled 'A Dio' (D'Ancona, vol. i. p. 102), for example, bocca stands for buca in a place where sense and rhyme alike demand the restitution of the ...
— Sonnets • Michael Angelo Buonarroti & Tommaso Campanella
... April 3, 1861. Dear Seward: I shall have to take a Gentleman with me that can speak the Spanish language and correct bad English. That being well done I can take care of the ballance [Transcriber's Note: so in original] Greeley to the contrary notwithstanding.... You have much at stake in my appointment as it is charged (and I know how justly) to your account."—Unpublished letter in files of ...
— A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3 • DeAlva Stanwood Alexander
... ETEXT TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE: Numbers enclosed in square brackets are the page numbers of the 1920 edition. Numbers enclosed in double curly brackets are the page numbers of the original 1668 edition. A damaged and incomplete bibliography and index in several ...
— The Isle Of Pines (1668) - and, An Essay in Bibliography by W. C. Ford • Henry Neville
... the human eye, a magnetism upon which Science has yet to put her cold and unromantic finger. Have you never experienced the sensation that some [Transcriber's note: someone?] was looking at you? Doubtless you have. Well, Max presently turned his glance toward his silent fellow traveler. She had lifted her veil and was staring at him with wondering, fearing eyes. These eyes were somewhat ...
— The Princess Elopes • Harold MacGrath
... Transcriber's note: In the print copy the following information is given in three columns: the new office-holder on the left, the office in the middle, and the ...
— The Letters of Horace Walpole, Volume 2 • Horace Walpole
... [Transcriber's Note: Two footnote marks [3] and [4] above in original text, but no footnote text was found in ...
— Outlines of Lessons in Botany, Part I; From Seed to Leaf • Jane H. Newell
... and who claims the highest place of all who ever plied the unprofitable trade of combining dissimilar and repugnant ideas, was not indeed known to the king during his prosperity; but his talents recommended him at the military court of Oxford, and the [Transcriber's note: word missing here in the original] ingenious poet of the metaphysical class enjoyed the applause of Charles before he shared the exile of his consort Henrietta. Cleveland also was honoured with the early notice of Charles;[11] one of the most distinguished metaphysical ...
— The Dramatic Works of John Dryden Vol. I. - With a Life of the Author • Sir Walter Scott
... [PG transcriber's note: at this point there appears to be a break in the original text. A sentence introducing the fifth book in this list, "Letters to Eugenie", ...
— Baron d'Holbach - A Study of Eighteenth Century Radicalism in France • Max Pearson Cushing
... Transcriber's Note: The following typographical errors present in the original text have been corrected for ...
— The Boy With the U. S. Life-Savers • Francis Rolt-Wheeler
... great hill of Queensberry, in Nithsdale, he was visited by Allan Cunningham, then a lad of eighteen, who came to see him, moved with admiration for his genius.—(See Memoir of Allan Cunningham, postea). [Transcriber's Note: This Memoir ...
— The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. - The Songs of Scotland of the past half century • Various
... more highly developed than those with whom they came in contact. Among the evidences of this ancient civilization were great temples built of stone, used as public buildings for the administration of religious {188} rights [Transcriber's note: rites?], private buildings of substantial order, and paved roads with numerous bridges. There were likewise ruins of edifices apparently unfinished, and traditions of an ascendent race which had passed away before the development of the Incas of Pizarro's time. In the massive architecture ...
— History of Human Society • Frank W. Blackmar
... of Homer, I said that the noble and profound application of ideas to life is the most essential part of poetic greatness[Transcriber's note: no punctuation here] I said that a great poet receives his distinctive character of superiority from his application, under the conditions immutably fixed by the laws of poetic beauty and poetic truth, from his application, I say, to his ...
— Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold • Matthew Arnold
... * * * * * represents a decorative line in the original. A few lines were added by the transcriber at a page break when there was ...
— The Only True Mother Goose Melodies - Without Addition or Abridgement • Munroe and Francis
... its position, few have seen. Proceeding along a narrow passage for some distance, we arrived at the point from which diverge two noted routes—the Winding Way and Pensico Avenue. Here we called a short halt; then wishing our newly formed acquintances [Transcriber's note: sic] a safe voyage over the "deep waters," we parted; they taking the left hand to the Winding Way and the rivers, and we the ...
— Rambles in the Mammoth Cave, during the Year 1844 - By a Visiter • Alexander Clark Bullitt
... Transcriber note: This file is a plain text rendition of HTML. Because many equations cannot be presented effectively in plain text, images are supplied for many equations and for all figures ...
— Relativity: The Special and General Theory • Albert Einstein
... [Transcriber's Note: This text retains original spellings. Also, superscripted abbreviations or contractions are indicated by the use of a caret (^), such ...
— Great Epochs in American History, Vol. II - The Planting Of The First Colonies: 1562—1733 • Various |
