"Emend" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the Phocians'; for this is not the point, nor is it what would be inferred from the fact that there was only a five-days' interval between the speech of Aeschines and the capitulation of the Phocians. There is no need to emend to [Greek: ...
— The Public Orations of Demosthenes, volume 2 • Demosthenes
... with a declaration that the king had no intention of acting otherwise than became a good Catholic prince; or of injuring the church or attacking the privileges conceded by God to the Holy See. If his words could be lawfully shown to have such a tendency he would revoke, emend, and correct ...
— The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) • James Anthony Froude
... an obvious precaution to be taken. Before using a document we must find out whether its text is "sound"—that is, in as close agreement as possible with the original manuscript of the author; and when the text is "corrupt" we must emend it. In using a text which has been corrupted in transmission, we run the risk of attributing to the author what really comes from the copyists. There are actual cases of theories which were based on passages falsified in transmission, ...
— Introduction to the Study of History • Charles V. Langlois
... MUSICKE BREEDS DELIGHT, etc. A troublesome passage. Upton and Jortin emend delight to dislike; Church inserts no before delight and omits best; Kitchin suggests despight; Grosart prefers the text as it stands with the meaning that although the best music pleases the troubled mind, it is no ...
— Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I • Edmund Spenser
... and t.B. emend so as to make lines 9 and 10 read: Never in his life, earlier or later, had he, the hell-thane, found a braver hero.—They argue that Beowulf's companions had done nothing to merit such encomiums as ...
— Beowulf - An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem • The Heyne-Socin |
