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Transcriber  n.  One who transcribes, or writes from a copy; a copier; a copyist.






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... Transcriber's note: This play is based on events that happened a millennium and a half before Jonson wrote it. Jonson added 247 scholarly footnotes to this play; all were in Latin (except for a scattering of Greek). They, and the Greek quotation which forms Tiberius Caesar's tag line in Scene ...
— Sejanus: His Fall • Ben Jonson

... three-quarters of the soil of Switzerland is productive. [Transcriber's note: the word "productive" may be incorrect, given Switzerland's mountainous terrain, but it is what was printed in ...
— Selections from Five English Poets • Various

... [2] The Pearl [3] Cleanness [4] Patience [5] Glossarial Index (excluding Postscript) [6] Collected Sidenotes (section added by transcriber: editor's sidenotes can be read as a condensed version of ...
— Early English Alliterative Poems - in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century • Various

... lines of the attitude which he took up towards that book, and it will be settled to the disgrace of those who professed to believe in Jesus, but deserted his position before full examination was made. That no transcriber ever made a slip, or that no translator ever made a mistake, is not held by any one. But the day that it is proved that the Old Testament is not substantially true, faith in Christ and Christianity will get a shake from which ...
— A Trip Abroad • Don Carlos Janes

... himself and his manner of life," "became the property of the trunkmaker and the butterman;" and most Dickens lovers will agree with me in rejoicing that the omitted parts have now at last been tardily rescued from unmerited neglect, and finds [Transcriber's Note: sic] a place in the recently issued "Charles Dickens" ...
— Life of Charles Dickens • Frank Marzials

... 26 inclusive, describing Mt. Ecclesia, have been transferred to the back of the book. (Transcriber's Note: They are ...
— The Rosicrucian Mysteries • Max Heindel

... themselves to it, for fear of using a razor, as is said, to cut stones. "I have no mind," wrote Leibnitz to Basnage, who had exhorted him to compile an immense Corpus of unpublished and printed documents relating to the history of the law of nations; "I have no mind to turn transcriber.... Does it not occur to you that the advice you give me resembles that of a man who should wish to marry his friend to a shrew? For to engage a man in a lifelong work is much the same as to find him a wife."[111] And Renan, speaking of those immense preliminary labours "which have rendered ...
— Introduction to the Study of History • Charles V. Langlois

... [Transcriber's Note: an image of a series of handwritten dots, dashes, vertical marks, and other marks appears here in ...
— Track's End • Hayden Carruth

... [Transcriber's note: page missing in original.] still survives in political methods and habits of thought that will yet be long in dying out. With great political systems, as with typical forms of organic life, the processes ...
— The Beginnings of New England - Or the Puritan Theocracy in its Relations to Civil and Religious Liberty • John Fiske

... with carets: w^t, y^e. All pilcrows in the body text were added by the transcriber ...
— The Education of Children • Desiderius Erasmus

... [Transcriber's note: The MiddleEnglish character yogh is transcribed as [gh]. Other letters or words in brackets are as ...
— The Departing Soul's Address to the Body • Anonymous

... Dr. Schlesien, for example; aliens having no hostile disposition toward the people they were compelled to criticize; honourably granting, that this people has a great history. Even such has the Lion, with Homer for the transcriber of his deeds. But the gentle aliens would image our emergence from wildness as the unsocial spectacle presented by the drear menagerie Lion, alone or mated; with hardly an animated moment save when the raw red joint is beneath his paw, reminding ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

... in the 1823 original, including inconsistent spellings (e.g., gaiety and gayety, Henly and Henley) except that, because of the typographical limitations of the Gutenberg system, the few words italicized in the original are represented by ALL CAPITALS. Annotations by the transcriber are enclosed in {curly brackets}. A very few obvious typographical errors ...
— Tales for Fifteen: or, Imagination and Heart • James Fenimore Cooper

... realizable ideal. Many important reforms are now in process throughout the United States, no small part of them directly attributable to the active efforts of our leading psychiatrists and to our National Committee's [Transcriber's note: original reads 'Committe's'] work. The old "asylums" are being changed into "hospitals." Psychiatric clinics are becoming attached to teaching hospitals and psychiatric instruction in the medical schools is being vastly improved. The mental symptoms of disease now receive attention ...
— A Psychiatric Milestone - Bloomingdale Hospital Centenary, 1821-1921 • Various

... trees in assemblages, but simply glance at a few points. The Romans used four different words to express these distinctions. When they spoke of a wood with reference to its timber, they used the word silva; sal[Transcriber's note: remainder of word illegible], was a collection of wild-wood in the mountains; nemus, a smaller collection, partaking of cultivation, and answering to our ideas of a grove; lucus was a wood, of any description, which ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 8, No. 46, August, 1861 • Various

... rectified his readings. But it still leaves much to be desired 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

... [Transcriber's note: Charts D and E are maps of the waters around the United Kingdom, and the waters of the Mediterranean, respectively, ...
— The Crisis of the Naval War • John Rushworth Jellicoe

... | Transcriber's Note: | | | | Inconsistent hyphenation and archaic spelling in | | the original document has been preserved. | | | | Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. | | For a complete list, please see the end of this | | ...
— An Essay on the Application of the Lunar Caustic in the Cure of Certain Wounds and Ulcers • John Higginbottom

... Transcriber's Note: | | | | Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. | | For a complete list, please see the end of this | | document. | | | | Bold text is marked like so: bold text. ...
— Bolshevism: A Curse & Danger to the Workers • Henry William Lee

... for this inconsistency, as it would furnish the transcriber with the most intimate knowledge of local habits, names, and usages; while at the same time it would not guard him against mistakes which negligence or haste, or the difficulty of deciphering a manuscript in a language with which the transcriber was by no means critically ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 • Various

... [Transcriber's Note: Most Sidenotes appear at the beginning of a paragraph. Where they originally appeared at mid-paragraph, their approximate position ...
— Preface to the Works of Shakespeare (1734) • Lewis Theobald



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