Every
emendation of Anne's had been on the side of honesty against importance.
The most equitable translation, therefore, of the present text being thus halt and impotent, we may suspect corruption, and I hazard the following emendation, though I have not adopted it in my translation, as fearing that it would be deemed too fanciful.
"How," they would ask themselves, "could an island be a horseman?" and they would cast about for an emendation. A visit to the top of Mt.
Biaggini, pointed to it once as it was just standing on the top of Levanzo, and said to me "Come cavalca bene" ("How well it rides"), and this immediately suggested my emendation to me.
Thus he beheld her recede, and in the anguish of his heart quoted a line from a poet, with peculiar
emendations of his own--
"You don't know what it is to want spiritual tobacco--bad
emendations of old texts, or small items about a variety of Aphis Brassicae, with the well-known signature of Philomicron, for the `Twaddler's Magazine;' or a learned treatise on the entomology of the Pentateuch, including all the insects not mentioned, but probably met with by the Israelites in their passage through the desert; with a monograph on the Ant, as treated by Solomon, showing the harmony of the Book of Proverbs with the results of modern research.
These guesses, etc., which passed under the name of annotations, or
emendations, were found so completely to have enveloped, distorted, and overwhelmed the text, that the author had to go about with a lantern to discover his own book.
Little Cackleby himself went to seven evening parties and told the story with comments and
emendations at each place.
New Testament Conjectural
Emendation in the Nineteenth Century: Jan Hendrik Holwerda as a Pioneer of Method
As all sources contain serious errors and only a handful of pieces have concordances, every item requires some conjectural editorial
emendation to yield a musically coherent text.
In accordance with the Code,
emendations are "any demonstrably intentional change in the original spelling of a name other than a mandatory change is an "
emendation" except as provided in Article 33.4." A "justified
emendation" is "the correction of an incorrect original spelling in accordance with Article 32.5 and the name thus corrected retains the authorship and date of the original spelling [Art.19.2]." Finally, according to Article 33.2.3.