Emendation

This Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect etc., which we give you here, kind reader, in its unfinished [that is, defective] state, was written by the author many years ago now.

On the Improvement of the Understanding 2007

Emendation is essentially confined to the removal of unquestionable errors….

The Scandal of 'Ulysses' Kidd, John 1988

Now I can demonstrate that a Man [might] write three score Years and ten, after the Model of this Letter, without the least Necessity of Revisal, Emendation or Correction, and all that he should write in that time would be worth Printing too.

Letter from John Adams to Abigail Smith, 20 April 1763 1963

As far as I, beloved Friend, can understand, this Medicine makes not for the Emendation of depraved

The Golden Calf, Which the World Adores, and Desires John Frederick Helvetius

Vague thoughts passed through his mind of composing a great work on Political Economy, or of writing a still more wonderful treatise on the Emendation of the Human Intellect.

Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) Leslie Stephen 1868

_Emendation of a Passage in Virgil_ (Vol. iii., p. 237.).

Notes and Queries, Number 79, May 3, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc Various 1852

'Do such business as the bitter day,' read 'better day' -- a certain Emendation, I think.

Letters of Edward FitzGerald to Fanny Kemble (1871-1883) Edward FitzGerald 1846

The Science of Criticism, as far as it affects an Editor, seems to be reduced to these three Classes; the Emendation of corrupt

Preface to the Works of Shakespeare (1734) Lewis Theobald 1716

Arb. That useful Part of Learning which consists in Emendation, Knowledge of different Readings, and the like, is what in all Ages Persons extremely wise and learned have had in great Veneration.

The Spectator, Volume 2. Richard Steele 1700

According to the Emendation of the above Correspondent, the Reader is desired in the Paper of the 17th to read R. for T. [3]

The Spectator, Volume 2. Richard Steele 1700