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INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF HISTORY

  1. [73] Cf. Revue Critique, 1895, ii. p. 358.
  2. [74] Quite recently our scholars used to neglect this elementary precaution, in order, as they said, to avoid an "air of pedantry." M. B. Hauréau has published, in his Notices et extraits de quelques manuscrits latins de la Bibliothèque nationale (vi. p. 310), a piece of rhythmic verse, "De presbytero et logico." "It is not unedited," says he; "Thomas Wright has already published it.... But this edition is very defective; the text is occasionally quite unintelligible. We have, therefore, considerably amended it, making use, for this purpose, of two copies, which, it most be conceded, are neither of them faultless...." The edition follows, with no variants. Verification is impossible.
  3. [75] "Textual emendation too often misses the mark through want of knowledge of what may be called the rules of the game" (W. M. Lindsay, p.v. in the work referred to above).
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