Bredvold,
with his kind permission.
James L. Clifford
Columbia University
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[Transcriber's Note:
The ARS edition included an errata slip, reproduced here. Where
text was changed or deleted, the original is given in brackets.
Corrections to the _Essay_ itself are listed after the ARS errata.]
Please paste the following in your copy of Corbyn Morris's
_Essay towards Fixing the True Standards of Wit_....
(_ARS_, Series One, No. 4)
ERRATA
INTRODUCTION:
page 5, line 1--"word apparently omitted" should be inclosed in
brackets.
page 5, line 6--"not identified" should be inclosed in brackets.
page 6, line 5--the first "of" should be omitted.
["modern readers need not regret too much of the omission
of the fulsome 32 page dedication"]
page 6, line 12, should read
"Walpole is praised for not curbing the press while necessarily
curbing the theatre, his aid to commerce".
["Walpole is praised for not curbing the theatre; his aid to
commerce"]
page 6, line 25--"sic" should be inclosed in brackets, as also
"P.L. 7. 363-66" in the next line.
[ ESSAY ON WIT:
page viii: Whence in _Aristotle_ such Persons are termed
"epidexioi", dexterous Men
The Greek _may_ read "epidezioi"; the letter-form makes it
uncertain.
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