Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CANON II. k.N textit{Editor fhould be the textit{Columbus of textit{truifmSt Or textit{felf-evident propofitions. Example I. I perfectly agree with " a textit{Daniel come to textit{" judgement," when he tells me, in textit{Edmond' name, that becaufe a paflage is anomalous, to textit{my conception, I am not therefore to textit{ejeB, (as he elegantly exprefles himfelf;) or to textit{extrude it, (which is textit{Johnfon's word,) as an error and corruption which I may alter at pleafure. I am alfo happy to find him aflert, (though it is a death's blow to fome who have preceded him and textit{occafionally to himfelf,f) that textit{other Editors, in the early part of this prefent century, textit{" feem never to textit{have looked behind them," (a figure of infinite humour,) and that textit{alterations of textit{Shakfpeare, till thirty years before textit{he wrote (but fince the edition by textit{Pope) have been confidercd as terms that were fynonymous to textit{rejloration. textit{By the way— Happy would it have been for textit{us, if thofe who textit{rejlored (as it was called) textit{Charles the textit{Second, could, by textit{rejloring him, have textit{altered him too ! This image was prompted by a textit{new member of the textit{Imperial Parliament. f textit{Edmoml (as it will appear by his conduft,) referves to textit{h:m f,lf alone, the liberty textit{of [faring or of textit{amending—as textit{itfuits him. He then launches out into an ocean, which, troubled as it is, textit{he manages in a very little fluff, like the fifherman's textit{coracle upon the textit{Severn—a comparifon of the ancient copies. Example II. It is here impoflible to refift the fagacity of his remark, textit{" that we have no criterion to af- " certain the text before we knew...