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Alonzo and Melissa
Alonzo and Melissa

Chapter VII

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* * * * * * * * * Errors and Inconsistencies:
_All corrections were checked against other versions of the text._ If an apparent error is the same in all available versions, or if the correct form was not deducible from the 1851 text alone, it was left unchanged.
Non-Errors Many spellings were carried over unchanged from the 1804 original, even if they were archaic by 1851, such as "doat", "choak", "staid" (for "stayed") and others. "gale": in pre-Beaufort usage, a synonym for "breeze" "ensign": starting rank in the British infantry until 1870 "prim hedge": probably the same as privet hedge, _Ligustrum vulgare_ "Dr. Franklin": Benjamin Franklin received an honorary doctorate from Oxford in 1762 Misprints the old gentleman thus addressed them [gentlemen] hastily walked the room in much visible agony of mind, [vissible] From them you will be enabled to obtain information [enable] In them we can place the utmost confidence.
[In // In at page break] I will call at your father's [you] He arose after a sleepless night [nights] "Your perverseness, Melissa [previous paragraph ends at line-end; paragraph indent missing] ascended in pyramidical columns to the zenith [columns the zenith] which widening, more rapidly advanced [nore] he betook himself to the forest for shelter [be betook] he set out to return [he sat out] he slowly recovered, but [recov-/ed at line break] Omnipotent Controller of vicissitudes!
[Controler] Omniscient dispenser of destinies! [dipenser] where every object would be shrouded in crape [he shrouded] Neither did he enquire into Alonzo's prospects [Oeither] now smooth as polished glass [snooth] the woe-worn head of fortune's fugitive [woe-worm] One
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LEARNER DICTIONARY
Archivist
/ˈɑːrkɪvɪst/
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A keeper or guardian of historical records and memories.

Alonzo and Melissa

Chapter VII

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* * * * * * * * * Errors and Inconsistencies:
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_All corrections were checked against other versions of the text._ If an apparent error is the same in all available versions, or if the correct form was not deducible from the 1851 text alone, it was left unchanged.
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Non-Errors Many spellings were carried over unchanged from the 1804 original, even if they were archaic by 1851, such as "doat", "choak", "staid" (for "stayed") and others. "gale": in pre-Beaufort usage, a synonym for "breeze" "ensign": starting rank in the British infantry until 1870 "prim hedge": probably the same as privet hedge, _Ligustrum vulgare_ "Dr. Franklin": Benjamin Franklin received an honorary doctorate from Oxford in 1762 Misprints the old gentleman thus addressed them [gentlemen] hastily walked the room in much visible agony of mind, [vissible] From them you will be enabled to obtain information [enable] In them we can place the utmost confidence.
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[In // In at page break] I will call at your father's [you] He arose after a sleepless night [nights] "Your perverseness, Melissa [previous paragraph ends at line-end; paragraph indent missing] ascended in pyramidical columns to the zenith [columns the zenith] which widening, more rapidly advanced [nore] he betook himself to the forest for shelter [be betook] he set out to return [he sat out] he slowly recovered, but [recov-/ed at line break] Omnipotent Controller of vicissitudes!
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[Controler] Omniscient dispenser of destinies! [dipenser] where every object would be shrouded in crape [he shrouded] Neither did he enquire into Alonzo's prospects [Oeither] now smooth as polished glass [snooth] the woe-worn head of fortune's fugitive [woe-worm] One

Learner Dictionary

Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, audio, and collocations from this reading.

After preposition US /ˈæftər/

later than; following

From this reading “[In // In at page break] I will call at your father's [you] He arose after a sleepless night [nights] "Your perverseness, Melissa [previous paragraph ends at line-end; paragraph indent missing] ascended in pyramidical columns to the zenith [columns the zenith] which widening, more rapidly advanced [nore] he betook himself to the forest for shelter [be betook] he set out to return [he sat out] he slowly recovered, but [recov-/ed at line break] Omnipotent Controller of vicissitudes!”

Against preposition US /əˈɡenst/

touching and pressing; in opposition to

From this reading “_All corrections were checked against other versions of the text._ If an apparent error is the same in all available versions, or if the correct form was not deducible from the 1851 text alone, it was left unchanged.”

Agony noun US /ˈæɡ.ə.ni/

Extreme physical or mental suffering; intense anguish.

From this reading “Non-Errors Many spellings were carried over unchanged from the 1804 original, even if they were archaic by 1851, such as "doat", "choak", "staid" (for "stayed") and others. "gale": in pre-Beaufort usage, a synonym for "breeze" "ensign": starting rank in the British infantry until 1870 "prim hedge": probably the same as privet hedge, _Ligustrum vulgare_ "Dr. Franklin": Benjamin Franklin received an honorary doctorate from Oxford in 1762 Misprints the old gentleman thus addressed them [gentlemen] hastily walked the room in much visible agony of mind, [vissible] From them you will be enabled to obtain information [enable] In them we can place the utmost confidence.”

Alone noun US /alone/

an important story-specific word used in this passage

From this reading “_All corrections were checked against other versions of the text._ If an apparent error is the same in all available versions, or if the correct form was not deducible from the 1851 text alone, it was left unchanged.”

Confidence noun US /ˈconfidence/

a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage

From this reading “Non-Errors Many spellings were carried over unchanged from the 1804 original, even if they were archaic by 1851, such as "doat", "choak", "staid" (for "stayed") and others. "gale": in pre-Beaufort usage, a synonym for "breeze" "ensign": starting rank in the British infantry until 1870 "prim hedge": probably the same as privet hedge, _Ligustrum vulgare_ "Dr. Franklin": Benjamin Franklin received an honorary doctorate from Oxford in 1762 Misprints the old gentleman thus addressed them [gentlemen] hastily walked the room in much visible agony of mind, [vissible] From them you will be enabled to obtain information [enable] In them we can place the utmost confidence.”

Even noun US /even/

an important story-specific word used in this passage

From this reading “Non-Errors Many spellings were carried over unchanged from the 1804 original, even if they were archaic by 1851, such as "doat", "choak", "staid" (for "stayed") and others. "gale": in pre-Beaufort usage, a synonym for "breeze" "ensign": starting rank in the British infantry until 1870 "prim hedge": probably the same as privet hedge, _Ligustrum vulgare_ "Dr. Franklin": Benjamin Franklin received an honorary doctorate from Oxford in 1762 Misprints the old gentleman thus addressed them [gentlemen] hastily walked the room in much visible agony of mind, [vissible] From them you will be enabled to obtain information [enable] In them we can place the utmost confidence.”

Every determiner US /ˈevəri/

all the members of a group, with none left out

From this reading “[Controler] Omniscient dispenser of destinies! [dipenser] where every object would be shrouded in crape [he shrouded] Neither did he enquire into Alonzo's prospects [Oeither] now smooth as polished glass [snooth] the woe-worn head of fortune's fugitive [woe-worm] One”

Gentleman noun US /ˈgentleman/

a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage

From this reading “Non-Errors Many spellings were carried over unchanged from the 1804 original, even if they were archaic by 1851, such as "doat", "choak", "staid" (for "stayed") and others. "gale": in pre-Beaufort usage, a synonym for "breeze" "ensign": starting rank in the British infantry until 1870 "prim hedge": probably the same as privet hedge, _Ligustrum vulgare_ "Dr. Franklin": Benjamin Franklin received an honorary doctorate from Oxford in 1762 Misprints the old gentleman thus addressed them [gentlemen] hastily walked the room in much visible agony of mind, [vissible] From them you will be enabled to obtain information [enable] In them we can place the utmost confidence.”

Gentlemen noun US /gentlemen/

an important story-specific word used in this passage

From this reading “Non-Errors Many spellings were carried over unchanged from the 1804 original, even if they were archaic by 1851, such as "doat", "choak", "staid" (for "stayed") and others. "gale": in pre-Beaufort usage, a synonym for "breeze" "ensign": starting rank in the British infantry until 1870 "prim hedge": probably the same as privet hedge, _Ligustrum vulgare_ "Dr. Franklin": Benjamin Franklin received an honorary doctorate from Oxford in 1762 Misprints the old gentleman thus addressed them [gentlemen] hastily walked the room in much visible agony of mind, [vissible] From them you will be enabled to obtain information [enable] In them we can place the utmost confidence.”

Himself pronoun US /hɪmˈself/

used when the man or boy doing the action is also its object

From this reading “[In // In at page break] I will call at your father's [you] He arose after a sleepless night [nights] "Your perverseness, Melissa [previous paragraph ends at line-end; paragraph indent missing] ascended in pyramidical columns to the zenith [columns the zenith] which widening, more rapidly advanced [nore] he betook himself to the forest for shelter [be betook] he set out to return [he sat out] he slowly recovered, but [recov-/ed at line break] Omnipotent Controller of vicissitudes!”

Left noun US /left/

an important story-specific word used in this passage

From this reading “_All corrections were checked against other versions of the text._ If an apparent error is the same in all available versions, or if the correct form was not deducible from the 1851 text alone, it was left unchanged.”

Mind noun US /mind/

an important story-specific word used in this passage

From this reading “Non-Errors Many spellings were carried over unchanged from the 1804 original, even if they were archaic by 1851, such as "doat", "choak", "staid" (for "stayed") and others. "gale": in pre-Beaufort usage, a synonym for "breeze" "ensign": starting rank in the British infantry until 1870 "prim hedge": probably the same as privet hedge, _Ligustrum vulgare_ "Dr. Franklin": Benjamin Franklin received an honorary doctorate from Oxford in 1762 Misprints the old gentleman thus addressed them [gentlemen] hastily walked the room in much visible agony of mind, [vissible] From them you will be enabled to obtain information [enable] In them we can place the utmost confidence.”

Neither determiner US /ˈniːðər/

not one and not the other of two

From this reading “[Controler] Omniscient dispenser of destinies! [dipenser] where every object would be shrouded in crape [he shrouded] Neither did he enquire into Alonzo's prospects [Oeither] now smooth as polished glass [snooth] the woe-worn head of fortune's fugitive [woe-worm] One”

Nights noun US /naɪts/

Periods of darkness between sunset and sunrise.

From this reading “[In // In at page break] I will call at your father's [you] He arose after a sleepless night [nights] "Your perverseness, Melissa [previous paragraph ends at line-end; paragraph indent missing] ascended in pyramidical columns to the zenith [columns the zenith] which widening, more rapidly advanced [nore] he betook himself to the forest for shelter [be betook] he set out to return [he sat out] he slowly recovered, but [recov-/ed at line break] Omnipotent Controller of vicissitudes!”

Obtain verb US /əbˈteɪn/

to get something, especially through effort

From this reading “Non-Errors Many spellings were carried over unchanged from the 1804 original, even if they were archaic by 1851, such as "doat", "choak", "staid" (for "stayed") and others. "gale": in pre-Beaufort usage, a synonym for "breeze" "ensign": starting rank in the British infantry until 1870 "prim hedge": probably the same as privet hedge, _Ligustrum vulgare_ "Dr. Franklin": Benjamin Franklin received an honorary doctorate from Oxford in 1762 Misprints the old gentleman thus addressed them [gentlemen] hastily walked the room in much visible agony of mind, [vissible] From them you will be enabled to obtain information [enable] In them we can place the utmost confidence.”

One pronoun US /wʌn/

used to mean any person in general, including the speaker

From this reading “[Controler] Omniscient dispenser of destinies! [dipenser] where every object would be shrouded in crape [he shrouded] Neither did he enquire into Alonzo's prospects [Oeither] now smooth as polished glass [snooth] the woe-worn head of fortune's fugitive [woe-worm] One”

Over preposition US /ˈoʊvər/

above and across; more than

From this reading “Non-Errors Many spellings were carried over unchanged from the 1804 original, even if they were archaic by 1851, such as "doat", "choak", "staid" (for "stayed") and others. "gale": in pre-Beaufort usage, a synonym for "breeze" "ensign": starting rank in the British infantry until 1870 "prim hedge": probably the same as privet hedge, _Ligustrum vulgare_ "Dr. Franklin": Benjamin Franklin received an honorary doctorate from Oxford in 1762 Misprints the old gentleman thus addressed them [gentlemen] hastily walked the room in much visible agony of mind, [vissible] From them you will be enabled to obtain information [enable] In them we can place the utmost confidence.”

Same noun US /same/

an important story-specific word used in this passage

From this reading “_All corrections were checked against other versions of the text._ If an apparent error is the same in all available versions, or if the correct form was not deducible from the 1851 text alone, it was left unchanged.”

Until preposition US /ənˈtɪl/

up to a particular time

From this reading “Non-Errors Many spellings were carried over unchanged from the 1804 original, even if they were archaic by 1851, such as "doat", "choak", "staid" (for "stayed") and others. "gale": in pre-Beaufort usage, a synonym for "breeze" "ensign": starting rank in the British infantry until 1870 "prim hedge": probably the same as privet hedge, _Ligustrum vulgare_ "Dr. Franklin": Benjamin Franklin received an honorary doctorate from Oxford in 1762 Misprints the old gentleman thus addressed them [gentlemen] hastily walked the room in much visible agony of mind, [vissible] From them you will be enabled to obtain information [enable] In them we can place the utmost confidence.”

Would modal verb US /wʊd/

used for something imagined, polite, or habitual in the past

From this reading “[Controler] Omniscient dispenser of destinies! [dipenser] where every object would be shrouded in crape [he shrouded] Neither did he enquire into Alonzo's prospects [Oeither] now smooth as polished glass [snooth] the woe-worn head of fortune's fugitive [woe-worm] One”

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1762

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From this reading Non-Errors Many spellings were carried over unchanged from the 1804 original, even if they were archaic by 1851, such as "doat", "choak", "staid" (for "stayed") and others. "gale": in pre-Beaufort usage, a synonym for "breeze" "ensign": starting rank in the British infantry until 1870 "prim hedge": probably the same as privet hedge, _Ligustrum vulgare_ "Dr. Franklin": Benjamin Franklin received an honorary doctorate from Oxford in 1762 Misprints the old gentleman thus addressed them [gentlemen] hastily walked the room in much visible agony of mind, [vissible] From them you will be enabled to obtain information [enable] In them we can place the utmost confidence.

1804

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From this reading Non-Errors Many spellings were carried over unchanged from the 1804 original, even if they were archaic by 1851, such as "doat", "choak", "staid" (for "stayed") and others. "gale": in pre-Beaufort usage, a synonym for "breeze" "ensign": starting rank in the British infantry until 1870 "prim hedge": probably the same as privet hedge, _Ligustrum vulgare_ "Dr. Franklin": Benjamin Franklin received an honorary doctorate from Oxford in 1762 Misprints the old gentleman thus addressed them [gentlemen] hastily walked the room in much visible agony of mind, [vissible] From them you will be enabled to obtain information [enable] In them we can place the utmost confidence.

1851

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From this reading _All corrections were checked against other versions of the text._ If an apparent error is the same in all available versions, or if the correct form was not deducible from the 1851 text alone, it was left unchanged.

1870

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading Non-Errors Many spellings were carried over unchanged from the 1804 original, even if they were archaic by 1851, such as "doat", "choak", "staid" (for "stayed") and others. "gale": in pre-Beaufort usage, a synonym for "breeze" "ensign": starting rank in the British infantry until 1870 "prim hedge": probably the same as privet hedge, _Ligustrum vulgare_ "Dr. Franklin": Benjamin Franklin received an honorary doctorate from Oxford in 1762 Misprints the old gentleman thus addressed them [gentlemen] hastily walked the room in much visible agony of mind, [vissible] From them you will be enabled to obtain information [enable] In them we can place the utmost confidence.

adeterminerUS /ə/

used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one

From this reading Non-Errors Many spellings were carried over unchanged from the 1804 original, even if they were archaic by 1851, such as "doat", "choak", "staid" (for "stayed") and others. "gale": in pre-Beaufort usage, a synonym for "breeze" "ensign": starting rank in the British infantry until 1870 "prim hedge": probably the same as privet hedge, _Ligustrum vulgare_ "Dr. Franklin": Benjamin Franklin received an honorary doctorate from Oxford in 1762 Misprints the old gentleman thus addressed them [gentlemen] hastily walked the room in much visible agony of mind, [vissible] From them you will be enabled to obtain information [enable] In them we can place the utmost confidence.

addressed

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From this reading Non-Errors Many spellings were carried over unchanged from the 1804 original, even if they were archaic by 1851, such as "doat", "choak", "staid" (for "stayed") and others. "gale": in pre-Beaufort usage, a synonym for "breeze" "ensign": starting rank in the British infantry until 1870 "prim hedge": probably the same as privet hedge, _Ligustrum vulgare_ "Dr. Franklin": Benjamin Franklin received an honorary doctorate from Oxford in 1762 Misprints the old gentleman thus addressed them [gentlemen] hastily walked the room in much visible agony of mind, [vissible] From them you will be enabled to obtain information [enable] In them we can place the utmost confidence.

advanced

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From this reading [In // In at page break] I will call at your father's [you] He arose after a sleepless night [nights] "Your perverseness, Melissa [previous paragraph ends at line-end; paragraph indent missing] ascended in pyramidical columns to the zenith [columns the zenith] which widening, more rapidly advanced [nore] he betook himself to the forest for shelter [be betook] he set out to return [he sat out] he slowly recovered, but [recov-/ed at line break] Omnipotent Controller of vicissitudes!

afterprepositionUS /ˈæftər/

later than; following

From this reading [In // In at page break] I will call at your father's [you] He arose after a sleepless night [nights] "Your perverseness, Melissa [previous paragraph ends at line-end; paragraph indent missing] ascended in pyramidical columns to the zenith [columns the zenith] which widening, more rapidly advanced [nore] he betook himself to the forest for shelter [be betook] he set out to return [he sat out] he slowly recovered, but [recov-/ed at line break] Omnipotent Controller of vicissitudes!

againstprepositionUS /əˈɡenst/

touching and pressing; in opposition to

From this reading _All corrections were checked against other versions of the text._ If an apparent error is the same in all available versions, or if the correct form was not deducible from the 1851 text alone, it was left unchanged.

agonynounUS /ˈæɡ.ə.ni/

Extreme physical or mental suffering; intense anguish.

From this reading Non-Errors Many spellings were carried over unchanged from the 1804 original, even if they were archaic by 1851, such as "doat", "choak", "staid" (for "stayed") and others. "gale": in pre-Beaufort usage, a synonym for "breeze" "ensign": starting rank in the British infantry until 1870 "prim hedge": probably the same as privet hedge, _Ligustrum vulgare_ "Dr. Franklin": Benjamin Franklin received an honorary doctorate from Oxford in 1762 Misprints the old gentleman thus addressed them [gentlemen] hastily walked the room in much visible agony of mind, [vissible] From them you will be enabled to obtain information [enable] In them we can place the utmost confidence.

All

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From this reading _All corrections were checked against other versions of the text._ If an apparent error is the same in all available versions, or if the correct form was not deducible from the 1851 text alone, it was left unchanged.

alonenounUS /alone/

an important story-specific word used in this passage

From this reading _All corrections were checked against other versions of the text._ If an apparent error is the same in all available versions, or if the correct form was not deducible from the 1851 text alone, it was left unchanged.

Alonzo's

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From this reading [Controler] Omniscient dispenser of destinies! [dipenser] where every object would be shrouded in crape [he shrouded] Neither did he enquire into Alonzo's prospects [Oeither] now smooth as polished glass [snooth] the woe-worn head of fortune's fugitive [woe-worm] One

andeterminerUS /æn/

the form of “a” used before a word that begins with a vowel sound

From this reading _All corrections were checked against other versions of the text._ If an apparent error is the same in all available versions, or if the correct form was not deducible from the 1851 text alone, it was left unchanged.

andconjunctionUS /ənd/

used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together

From this reading * * * * * * * * * Errors and Inconsistencies:

apparent

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From this reading _All corrections were checked against other versions of the text._ If an apparent error is the same in all available versions, or if the correct form was not deducible from the 1851 text alone, it was left unchanged.

archaic

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading Non-Errors Many spellings were carried over unchanged from the 1804 original, even if they were archaic by 1851, such as "doat", "choak", "staid" (for "stayed") and others. "gale": in pre-Beaufort usage, a synonym for "breeze" "ensign": starting rank in the British infantry until 1870 "prim hedge": probably the same as privet hedge, _Ligustrum vulgare_ "Dr. Franklin": Benjamin Franklin received an honorary doctorate from Oxford in 1762 Misprints the old gentleman thus addressed them [gentlemen] hastily walked the room in much visible agony of mind, [vissible] From them you will be enabled to obtain information [enable] In them we can place the utmost confidence.

arose

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From this reading [In // In at page break] I will call at your father's [you] He arose after a sleepless night [nights] "Your perverseness, Melissa [previous paragraph ends at line-end; paragraph indent missing] ascended in pyramidical columns to the zenith [columns the zenith] which widening, more rapidly advanced [nore] he betook himself to the forest for shelter [be betook] he set out to return [he sat out] he slowly recovered, but [recov-/ed at line break] Omnipotent Controller of vicissitudes!

asconjunctionUS /æz/

at the same time that; because; in the way that

From this reading Non-Errors Many spellings were carried over unchanged from the 1804 original, even if they were archaic by 1851, such as "doat", "choak", "staid" (for "stayed") and others. "gale": in pre-Beaufort usage, a synonym for "breeze" "ensign": starting rank in the British infantry until 1870 "prim hedge": probably the same as privet hedge, _Ligustrum vulgare_ "Dr. Franklin": Benjamin Franklin received an honorary doctorate from Oxford in 1762 Misprints the old gentleman thus addressed them [gentlemen] hastily walked the room in much visible agony of mind, [vissible] From them you will be enabled to obtain information [enable] In them we can place the utmost confidence.

ascended

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From this reading [In // In at page break] I will call at your father's [you] He arose after a sleepless night [nights] "Your perverseness, Melissa [previous paragraph ends at line-end; paragraph indent missing] ascended in pyramidical columns to the zenith [columns the zenith] which widening, more rapidly advanced [nore] he betook himself to the forest for shelter [be betook] he set out to return [he sat out] he slowly recovered, but [recov-/ed at line break] Omnipotent Controller of vicissitudes!

atprepositionUS /æt/

in or near a particular place or position

From this reading [In // In at page break] I will call at your father's [you] He arose after a sleepless night [nights] "Your perverseness, Melissa [previous paragraph ends at line-end; paragraph indent missing] ascended in pyramidical columns to the zenith [columns the zenith] which widening, more rapidly advanced [nore] he betook himself to the forest for shelter [be betook] he set out to return [he sat out] he slowly recovered, but [recov-/ed at line break] Omnipotent Controller of vicissitudes!

available

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading _All corrections were checked against other versions of the text._ If an apparent error is the same in all available versions, or if the correct form was not deducible from the 1851 text alone, it was left unchanged.

beauxiliary verbUS /biː/

used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses

From this reading Non-Errors Many spellings were carried over unchanged from the 1804 original, even if they were archaic by 1851, such as "doat", "choak", "staid" (for "stayed") and others. "gale": in pre-Beaufort usage, a synonym for "breeze" "ensign": starting rank in the British infantry until 1870 "prim hedge": probably the same as privet hedge, _Ligustrum vulgare_ "Dr. Franklin": Benjamin Franklin received an honorary doctorate from Oxford in 1762 Misprints the old gentleman thus addressed them [gentlemen] hastily walked the room in much visible agony of mind, [vissible] From them you will be enabled to obtain information [enable] In them we can place the utmost confidence.

Benjamin

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From this reading Non-Errors Many spellings were carried over unchanged from the 1804 original, even if they were archaic by 1851, such as "doat", "choak", "staid" (for "stayed") and others. "gale": in pre-Beaufort usage, a synonym for "breeze" "ensign": starting rank in the British infantry until 1870 "prim hedge": probably the same as privet hedge, _Ligustrum vulgare_ "Dr. Franklin": Benjamin Franklin received an honorary doctorate from Oxford in 1762 Misprints the old gentleman thus addressed them [gentlemen] hastily walked the room in much visible agony of mind, [vissible] From them you will be enabled to obtain information [enable] In them we can place the utmost confidence.

betook

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From this reading [In // In at page break] I will call at your father's [you] He arose after a sleepless night [nights] "Your perverseness, Melissa [previous paragraph ends at line-end; paragraph indent missing] ascended in pyramidical columns to the zenith [columns the zenith] which widening, more rapidly advanced [nore] he betook himself to the forest for shelter [be betook] he set out to return [he sat out] he slowly recovered, but [recov-/ed at line break] Omnipotent Controller of vicissitudes!

break

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From this reading [In // In at page break] I will call at your father's [you] He arose after a sleepless night [nights] "Your perverseness, Melissa [previous paragraph ends at line-end; paragraph indent missing] ascended in pyramidical columns to the zenith [columns the zenith] which widening, more rapidly advanced [nore] he betook himself to the forest for shelter [be betook] he set out to return [he sat out] he slowly recovered, but [recov-/ed at line break] Omnipotent Controller of vicissitudes!

breeze

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From this reading Non-Errors Many spellings were carried over unchanged from the 1804 original, even if they were archaic by 1851, such as "doat", "choak", "staid" (for "stayed") and others. "gale": in pre-Beaufort usage, a synonym for "breeze" "ensign": starting rank in the British infantry until 1870 "prim hedge": probably the same as privet hedge, _Ligustrum vulgare_ "Dr. Franklin": Benjamin Franklin received an honorary doctorate from Oxford in 1762 Misprints the old gentleman thus addressed them [gentlemen] hastily walked the room in much visible agony of mind, [vissible] From them you will be enabled to obtain information [enable] In them we can place the utmost confidence.

British

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From this reading Non-Errors Many spellings were carried over unchanged from the 1804 original, even if they were archaic by 1851, such as "doat", "choak", "staid" (for "stayed") and others. "gale": in pre-Beaufort usage, a synonym for "breeze" "ensign": starting rank in the British infantry until 1870 "prim hedge": probably the same as privet hedge, _Ligustrum vulgare_ "Dr. Franklin": Benjamin Franklin received an honorary doctorate from Oxford in 1762 Misprints the old gentleman thus addressed them [gentlemen] hastily walked the room in much visible agony of mind, [vissible] From them you will be enabled to obtain information [enable] In them we can place the utmost confidence.

butconjunctionUS /bʌt/

used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before

From this reading [In // In at page break] I will call at your father's [you] He arose after a sleepless night [nights] "Your perverseness, Melissa [previous paragraph ends at line-end; paragraph indent missing] ascended in pyramidical columns to the zenith [columns the zenith] which widening, more rapidly advanced [nore] he betook himself to the forest for shelter [be betook] he set out to return [he sat out] he slowly recovered, but [recov-/ed at line break] Omnipotent Controller of vicissitudes!

byprepositionUS /baɪ/

showing who or what does the action

From this reading Non-Errors Many spellings were carried over unchanged from the 1804 original, even if they were archaic by 1851, such as "doat", "choak", "staid" (for "stayed") and others. "gale": in pre-Beaufort usage, a synonym for "breeze" "ensign": starting rank in the British infantry until 1870 "prim hedge": probably the same as privet hedge, _Ligustrum vulgare_ "Dr. Franklin": Benjamin Franklin received an honorary doctorate from Oxford in 1762 Misprints the old gentleman thus addressed them [gentlemen] hastily walked the room in much visible agony of mind, [vissible] From them you will be enabled to obtain information [enable] In them we can place the utmost confidence.

call

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From this reading [In // In at page break] I will call at your father's [you] He arose after a sleepless night [nights] "Your perverseness, Melissa [previous paragraph ends at line-end; paragraph indent missing] ascended in pyramidical columns to the zenith [columns the zenith] which widening, more rapidly advanced [nore] he betook himself to the forest for shelter [be betook] he set out to return [he sat out] he slowly recovered, but [recov-/ed at line break] Omnipotent Controller of vicissitudes!

canmodal verbUS /kæn/

to be able to, or to be allowed to

From this reading Non-Errors Many spellings were carried over unchanged from the 1804 original, even if they were archaic by 1851, such as "doat", "choak", "staid" (for "stayed") and others. "gale": in pre-Beaufort usage, a synonym for "breeze" "ensign": starting rank in the British infantry until 1870 "prim hedge": probably the same as privet hedge, _Ligustrum vulgare_ "Dr. Franklin": Benjamin Franklin received an honorary doctorate from Oxford in 1762 Misprints the old gentleman thus addressed them [gentlemen] hastily walked the room in much visible agony of mind, [vissible] From them you will be enabled to obtain information [enable] In them we can place the utmost confidence.

carried

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From this reading Non-Errors Many spellings were carried over unchanged from the 1804 original, even if they were archaic by 1851, such as "doat", "choak", "staid" (for "stayed") and others. "gale": in pre-Beaufort usage, a synonym for "breeze" "ensign": starting rank in the British infantry until 1870 "prim hedge": probably the same as privet hedge, _Ligustrum vulgare_ "Dr. Franklin": Benjamin Franklin received an honorary doctorate from Oxford in 1762 Misprints the old gentleman thus addressed them [gentlemen] hastily walked the room in much visible agony of mind, [vissible] From them you will be enabled to obtain information [enable] In them we can place the utmost confidence.

checked

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choak

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From this reading Non-Errors Many spellings were carried over unchanged from the 1804 original, even if they were archaic by 1851, such as "doat", "choak", "staid" (for "stayed") and others. "gale": in pre-Beaufort usage, a synonym for "breeze" "ensign": starting rank in the British infantry until 1870 "prim hedge": probably the same as privet hedge, _Ligustrum vulgare_ "Dr. Franklin": Benjamin Franklin received an honorary doctorate from Oxford in 1762 Misprints the old gentleman thus addressed them [gentlemen] hastily walked the room in much visible agony of mind, [vissible] From them you will be enabled to obtain information [enable] In them we can place the utmost confidence.

columns

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From this reading [In // In at page break] I will call at your father's [you] He arose after a sleepless night [nights] "Your perverseness, Melissa [previous paragraph ends at line-end; paragraph indent missing] ascended in pyramidical columns to the zenith [columns the zenith] which widening, more rapidly advanced [nore] he betook himself to the forest for shelter [be betook] he set out to return [he sat out] he slowly recovered, but [recov-/ed at line break] Omnipotent Controller of vicissitudes!

confidencenounUS /ˈconfidence/

a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage

From this reading Non-Errors Many spellings were carried over unchanged from the 1804 original, even if they were archaic by 1851, such as "doat", "choak", "staid" (for "stayed") and others. "gale": in pre-Beaufort usage, a synonym for "breeze" "ensign": starting rank in the British infantry until 1870 "prim hedge": probably the same as privet hedge, _Ligustrum vulgare_ "Dr. Franklin": Benjamin Franklin received an honorary doctorate from Oxford in 1762 Misprints the old gentleman thus addressed them [gentlemen] hastily walked the room in much visible agony of mind, [vissible] From them you will be enabled to obtain information [enable] In them we can place the utmost confidence.

Controler

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From this reading [Controler] Omniscient dispenser of destinies! [dipenser] where every object would be shrouded in crape [he shrouded] Neither did he enquire into Alonzo's prospects [Oeither] now smooth as polished glass [snooth] the woe-worn head of fortune's fugitive [woe-worm] One

Controller

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From this reading [In // In at page break] I will call at your father's [you] He arose after a sleepless night [nights] "Your perverseness, Melissa [previous paragraph ends at line-end; paragraph indent missing] ascended in pyramidical columns to the zenith [columns the zenith] which widening, more rapidly advanced [nore] he betook himself to the forest for shelter [be betook] he set out to return [he sat out] he slowly recovered, but [recov-/ed at line break] Omnipotent Controller of vicissitudes!

correct

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corrections

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crape

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From this reading [Controler] Omniscient dispenser of destinies! [dipenser] where every object would be shrouded in crape [he shrouded] Neither did he enquire into Alonzo's prospects [Oeither] now smooth as polished glass [snooth] the woe-worn head of fortune's fugitive [woe-worm] One

deducible

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destinies

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From this reading [Controler] Omniscient dispenser of destinies! [dipenser] where every object would be shrouded in crape [he shrouded] Neither did he enquire into Alonzo's prospects [Oeither] now smooth as polished glass [snooth] the woe-worn head of fortune's fugitive [woe-worm] One

didauxiliary verbUS /dɪd/

the past form of “do”, used in questions and negatives

From this reading [Controler] Omniscient dispenser of destinies! [dipenser] where every object would be shrouded in crape [he shrouded] Neither did he enquire into Alonzo's prospects [Oeither] now smooth as polished glass [snooth] the woe-worn head of fortune's fugitive [woe-worm] One

dipenser

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From this reading [Controler] Omniscient dispenser of destinies! [dipenser] where every object would be shrouded in crape [he shrouded] Neither did he enquire into Alonzo's prospects [Oeither] now smooth as polished glass [snooth] the woe-worn head of fortune's fugitive [woe-worm] One

dispenser

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From this reading [Controler] Omniscient dispenser of destinies! [dipenser] where every object would be shrouded in crape [he shrouded] Neither did he enquire into Alonzo's prospects [Oeither] now smooth as polished glass [snooth] the woe-worn head of fortune's fugitive [woe-worm] One

doat

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From this reading Non-Errors Many spellings were carried over unchanged from the 1804 original, even if they were archaic by 1851, such as "doat", "choak", "staid" (for "stayed") and others. "gale": in pre-Beaufort usage, a synonym for "breeze" "ensign": starting rank in the British infantry until 1870 "prim hedge": probably the same as privet hedge, _Ligustrum vulgare_ "Dr. Franklin": Benjamin Franklin received an honorary doctorate from Oxford in 1762 Misprints the old gentleman thus addressed them [gentlemen] hastily walked the room in much visible agony of mind, [vissible] From them you will be enabled to obtain information [enable] In them we can place the utmost confidence.

doctorate

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From this reading Non-Errors Many spellings were carried over unchanged from the 1804 original, even if they were archaic by 1851, such as "doat", "choak", "staid" (for "stayed") and others. "gale": in pre-Beaufort usage, a synonym for "breeze" "ensign": starting rank in the British infantry until 1870 "prim hedge": probably the same as privet hedge, _Ligustrum vulgare_ "Dr. Franklin": Benjamin Franklin received an honorary doctorate from Oxford in 1762 Misprints the old gentleman thus addressed them [gentlemen] hastily walked the room in much visible agony of mind, [vissible] From them you will be enabled to obtain information [enable] In them we can place the utmost confidence.

Dr

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From this reading Non-Errors Many spellings were carried over unchanged from the 1804 original, even if they were archaic by 1851, such as "doat", "choak", "staid" (for "stayed") and others. "gale": in pre-Beaufort usage, a synonym for "breeze" "ensign": starting rank in the British infantry until 1870 "prim hedge": probably the same as privet hedge, _Ligustrum vulgare_ "Dr. Franklin": Benjamin Franklin received an honorary doctorate from Oxford in 1762 Misprints the old gentleman thus addressed them [gentlemen] hastily walked the room in much visible agony of mind, [vissible] From them you will be enabled to obtain information [enable] In them we can place the utmost confidence.

ed

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From this reading [In // In at page break] I will call at your father's [you] He arose after a sleepless night [nights] "Your perverseness, Melissa [previous paragraph ends at line-end; paragraph indent missing] ascended in pyramidical columns to the zenith [columns the zenith] which widening, more rapidly advanced [nore] he betook himself to the forest for shelter [be betook] he set out to return [he sat out] he slowly recovered, but [recov-/ed at line break] Omnipotent Controller of vicissitudes!

enable

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From this reading Non-Errors Many spellings were carried over unchanged from the 1804 original, even if they were archaic by 1851, such as "doat", "choak", "staid" (for "stayed") and others. "gale": in pre-Beaufort usage, a synonym for "breeze" "ensign": starting rank in the British infantry until 1870 "prim hedge": probably the same as privet hedge, _Ligustrum vulgare_ "Dr. Franklin": Benjamin Franklin received an honorary doctorate from Oxford in 1762 Misprints the old gentleman thus addressed them [gentlemen] hastily walked the room in much visible agony of mind, [vissible] From them you will be enabled to obtain information [enable] In them we can place the utmost confidence.

enabled

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From this reading Non-Errors Many spellings were carried over unchanged from the 1804 original, even if they were archaic by 1851, such as "doat", "choak", "staid" (for "stayed") and others. "gale": in pre-Beaufort usage, a synonym for "breeze" "ensign": starting rank in the British infantry until 1870 "prim hedge": probably the same as privet hedge, _Ligustrum vulgare_ "Dr. Franklin": Benjamin Franklin received an honorary doctorate from Oxford in 1762 Misprints the old gentleman thus addressed them [gentlemen] hastily walked the room in much visible agony of mind, [vissible] From them you will be enabled to obtain information [enable] In them we can place the utmost confidence.

ends

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From this reading [In // In at page break] I will call at your father's [you] He arose after a sleepless night [nights] "Your perverseness, Melissa [previous paragraph ends at line-end; paragraph indent missing] ascended in pyramidical columns to the zenith [columns the zenith] which widening, more rapidly advanced [nore] he betook himself to the forest for shelter [be betook] he set out to return [he sat out] he slowly recovered, but [recov-/ed at line break] Omnipotent Controller of vicissitudes!

enquire

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From this reading [Controler] Omniscient dispenser of destinies! [dipenser] where every object would be shrouded in crape [he shrouded] Neither did he enquire into Alonzo's prospects [Oeither] now smooth as polished glass [snooth] the woe-worn head of fortune's fugitive [woe-worm] One

ensign

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From this reading Non-Errors Many spellings were carried over unchanged from the 1804 original, even if they were archaic by 1851, such as "doat", "choak", "staid" (for "stayed") and others. "gale": in pre-Beaufort usage, a synonym for "breeze" "ensign": starting rank in the British infantry until 1870 "prim hedge": probably the same as privet hedge, _Ligustrum vulgare_ "Dr. Franklin": Benjamin Franklin received an honorary doctorate from Oxford in 1762 Misprints the old gentleman thus addressed them [gentlemen] hastily walked the room in much visible agony of mind, [vissible] From them you will be enabled to obtain information [enable] In them we can place the utmost confidence.

error

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Errors

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evennounUS /even/

an important story-specific word used in this passage

From this reading Non-Errors Many spellings were carried over unchanged from the 1804 original, even if they were archaic by 1851, such as "doat", "choak", "staid" (for "stayed") and others. "gale": in pre-Beaufort usage, a synonym for "breeze" "ensign": starting rank in the British infantry until 1870 "prim hedge": probably the same as privet hedge, _Ligustrum vulgare_ "Dr. Franklin": Benjamin Franklin received an honorary doctorate from Oxford in 1762 Misprints the old gentleman thus addressed them [gentlemen] hastily walked the room in much visible agony of mind, [vissible] From them you will be enabled to obtain information [enable] In them we can place the utmost confidence.

everydeterminerUS /ˈevəri/

all the members of a group, with none left out

From this reading [Controler] Omniscient dispenser of destinies! [dipenser] where every object would be shrouded in crape [he shrouded] Neither did he enquire into Alonzo's prospects [Oeither] now smooth as polished glass [snooth] the woe-worn head of fortune's fugitive [woe-worm] One

father's

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From this reading [In // In at page break] I will call at your father's [you] He arose after a sleepless night [nights] "Your perverseness, Melissa [previous paragraph ends at line-end; paragraph indent missing] ascended in pyramidical columns to the zenith [columns the zenith] which widening, more rapidly advanced [nore] he betook himself to the forest for shelter [be betook] he set out to return [he sat out] he slowly recovered, but [recov-/ed at line break] Omnipotent Controller of vicissitudes!

forprepositionUS /fɔːr/

intended to be given to, or used by, somebody

From this reading Non-Errors Many spellings were carried over unchanged from the 1804 original, even if they were archaic by 1851, such as "doat", "choak", "staid" (for "stayed") and others. "gale": in pre-Beaufort usage, a synonym for "breeze" "ensign": starting rank in the British infantry until 1870 "prim hedge": probably the same as privet hedge, _Ligustrum vulgare_ "Dr. Franklin": Benjamin Franklin received an honorary doctorate from Oxford in 1762 Misprints the old gentleman thus addressed them [gentlemen] hastily walked the room in much visible agony of mind, [vissible] From them you will be enabled to obtain information [enable] In them we can place the utmost confidence.

forest

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From this reading [In // In at page break] I will call at your father's [you] He arose after a sleepless night [nights] "Your perverseness, Melissa [previous paragraph ends at line-end; paragraph indent missing] ascended in pyramidical columns to the zenith [columns the zenith] which widening, more rapidly advanced [nore] he betook himself to the forest for shelter [be betook] he set out to return [he sat out] he slowly recovered, but [recov-/ed at line break] Omnipotent Controller of vicissitudes!

form

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fortune's

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From this reading [Controler] Omniscient dispenser of destinies! [dipenser] where every object would be shrouded in crape [he shrouded] Neither did he enquire into Alonzo's prospects [Oeither] now smooth as polished glass [snooth] the woe-worn head of fortune's fugitive [woe-worm] One

Franklin

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From this reading Non-Errors Many spellings were carried over unchanged from the 1804 original, even if they were archaic by 1851, such as "doat", "choak", "staid" (for "stayed") and others. "gale": in pre-Beaufort usage, a synonym for "breeze" "ensign": starting rank in the British infantry until 1870 "prim hedge": probably the same as privet hedge, _Ligustrum vulgare_ "Dr. Franklin": Benjamin Franklin received an honorary doctorate from Oxford in 1762 Misprints the old gentleman thus addressed them [gentlemen] hastily walked the room in much visible agony of mind, [vissible] From them you will be enabled to obtain information [enable] In them we can place the utmost confidence.

fromprepositionUS /frʌm/

showing where something starts, or who sent it

From this reading _All corrections were checked against other versions of the text._ If an apparent error is the same in all available versions, or if the correct form was not deducible from the 1851 text alone, it was left unchanged.

fugitive

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From this reading [Controler] Omniscient dispenser of destinies! [dipenser] where every object would be shrouded in crape [he shrouded] Neither did he enquire into Alonzo's prospects [Oeither] now smooth as polished glass [snooth] the woe-worn head of fortune's fugitive [woe-worm] One

gale

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From this reading Non-Errors Many spellings were carried over unchanged from the 1804 original, even if they were archaic by 1851, such as "doat", "choak", "staid" (for "stayed") and others. "gale": in pre-Beaufort usage, a synonym for "breeze" "ensign": starting rank in the British infantry until 1870 "prim hedge": probably the same as privet hedge, _Ligustrum vulgare_ "Dr. Franklin": Benjamin Franklin received an honorary doctorate from Oxford in 1762 Misprints the old gentleman thus addressed them [gentlemen] hastily walked the room in much visible agony of mind, [vissible] From them you will be enabled to obtain information [enable] In them we can place the utmost confidence.

gentlemannounUS /ˈgentleman/

a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage

From this reading Non-Errors Many spellings were carried over unchanged from the 1804 original, even if they were archaic by 1851, such as "doat", "choak", "staid" (for "stayed") and others. "gale": in pre-Beaufort usage, a synonym for "breeze" "ensign": starting rank in the British infantry until 1870 "prim hedge": probably the same as privet hedge, _Ligustrum vulgare_ "Dr. Franklin": Benjamin Franklin received an honorary doctorate from Oxford in 1762 Misprints the old gentleman thus addressed them [gentlemen] hastily walked the room in much visible agony of mind, [vissible] From them you will be enabled to obtain information [enable] In them we can place the utmost confidence.

gentlemennounUS /gentlemen/

an important story-specific word used in this passage

From this reading Non-Errors Many spellings were carried over unchanged from the 1804 original, even if they were archaic by 1851, such as "doat", "choak", "staid" (for "stayed") and others. "gale": in pre-Beaufort usage, a synonym for "breeze" "ensign": starting rank in the British infantry until 1870 "prim hedge": probably the same as privet hedge, _Ligustrum vulgare_ "Dr. Franklin": Benjamin Franklin received an honorary doctorate from Oxford in 1762 Misprints the old gentleman thus addressed them [gentlemen] hastily walked the room in much visible agony of mind, [vissible] From them you will be enabled to obtain information [enable] In them we can place the utmost confidence.

glass

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From this reading [Controler] Omniscient dispenser of destinies! [dipenser] where every object would be shrouded in crape [he shrouded] Neither did he enquire into Alonzo's prospects [Oeither] now smooth as polished glass [snooth] the woe-worn head of fortune's fugitive [woe-worm] One

hastily

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From this reading Non-Errors Many spellings were carried over unchanged from the 1804 original, even if they were archaic by 1851, such as "doat", "choak", "staid" (for "stayed") and others. "gale": in pre-Beaufort usage, a synonym for "breeze" "ensign": starting rank in the British infantry until 1870 "prim hedge": probably the same as privet hedge, _Ligustrum vulgare_ "Dr. Franklin": Benjamin Franklin received an honorary doctorate from Oxford in 1762 Misprints the old gentleman thus addressed them [gentlemen] hastily walked the room in much visible agony of mind, [vissible] From them you will be enabled to obtain information [enable] In them we can place the utmost confidence.

HepronounUS /hiː/

a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject

From this reading [In // In at page break] I will call at your father's [you] He arose after a sleepless night [nights] "Your perverseness, Melissa [previous paragraph ends at line-end; paragraph indent missing] ascended in pyramidical columns to the zenith [columns the zenith] which widening, more rapidly advanced [nore] he betook himself to the forest for shelter [be betook] he set out to return [he sat out] he slowly recovered, but [recov-/ed at line break] Omnipotent Controller of vicissitudes!

head

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From this reading [Controler] Omniscient dispenser of destinies! [dipenser] where every object would be shrouded in crape [he shrouded] Neither did he enquire into Alonzo's prospects [Oeither] now smooth as polished glass [snooth] the woe-worn head of fortune's fugitive [woe-worm] One

hedge

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From this reading Non-Errors Many spellings were carried over unchanged from the 1804 original, even if they were archaic by 1851, such as "doat", "choak", "staid" (for "stayed") and others. "gale": in pre-Beaufort usage, a synonym for "breeze" "ensign": starting rank in the British infantry until 1870 "prim hedge": probably the same as privet hedge, _Ligustrum vulgare_ "Dr. Franklin": Benjamin Franklin received an honorary doctorate from Oxford in 1762 Misprints the old gentleman thus addressed them [gentlemen] hastily walked the room in much visible agony of mind, [vissible] From them you will be enabled to obtain information [enable] In them we can place the utmost confidence.

himselfpronounUS /hɪmˈself/

used when the man or boy doing the action is also its object

From this reading [In // In at page break] I will call at your father's [you] He arose after a sleepless night [nights] "Your perverseness, Melissa [previous paragraph ends at line-end; paragraph indent missing] ascended in pyramidical columns to the zenith [columns the zenith] which widening, more rapidly advanced [nore] he betook himself to the forest for shelter [be betook] he set out to return [he sat out] he slowly recovered, but [recov-/ed at line break] Omnipotent Controller of vicissitudes!

honorary

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From this reading Non-Errors Many spellings were carried over unchanged from the 1804 original, even if they were archaic by 1851, such as "doat", "choak", "staid" (for "stayed") and others. "gale": in pre-Beaufort usage, a synonym for "breeze" "ensign": starting rank in the British infantry until 1870 "prim hedge": probably the same as privet hedge, _Ligustrum vulgare_ "Dr. Franklin": Benjamin Franklin received an honorary doctorate from Oxford in 1762 Misprints the old gentleman thus addressed them [gentlemen] hastily walked the room in much visible agony of mind, [vissible] From them you will be enabled to obtain information [enable] In them we can place the utmost confidence.

IpronounUS /aɪ/

the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb

From this reading [In // In at page break] I will call at your father's [you] He arose after a sleepless night [nights] "Your perverseness, Melissa [previous paragraph ends at line-end; paragraph indent missing] ascended in pyramidical columns to the zenith [columns the zenith] which widening, more rapidly advanced [nore] he betook himself to the forest for shelter [be betook] he set out to return [he sat out] he slowly recovered, but [recov-/ed at line break] Omnipotent Controller of vicissitudes!

IfconjunctionUS /ɪf/

on condition that; in the event that

From this reading _All corrections were checked against other versions of the text._ If an apparent error is the same in all available versions, or if the correct form was not deducible from the 1851 text alone, it was left unchanged.

inprepositionUS /ɪn/

inside something, or within a place, period, or state

From this reading _All corrections were checked against other versions of the text._ If an apparent error is the same in all available versions, or if the correct form was not deducible from the 1851 text alone, it was left unchanged.

Inconsistencies

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indent

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From this reading [In // In at page break] I will call at your father's [you] He arose after a sleepless night [nights] "Your perverseness, Melissa [previous paragraph ends at line-end; paragraph indent missing] ascended in pyramidical columns to the zenith [columns the zenith] which widening, more rapidly advanced [nore] he betook himself to the forest for shelter [be betook] he set out to return [he sat out] he slowly recovered, but [recov-/ed at line break] Omnipotent Controller of vicissitudes!

infantry

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From this reading Non-Errors Many spellings were carried over unchanged from the 1804 original, even if they were archaic by 1851, such as "doat", "choak", "staid" (for "stayed") and others. "gale": in pre-Beaufort usage, a synonym for "breeze" "ensign": starting rank in the British infantry until 1870 "prim hedge": probably the same as privet hedge, _Ligustrum vulgare_ "Dr. Franklin": Benjamin Franklin received an honorary doctorate from Oxford in 1762 Misprints the old gentleman thus addressed them [gentlemen] hastily walked the room in much visible agony of mind, [vissible] From them you will be enabled to obtain information [enable] In them we can place the utmost confidence.

information

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From this reading Non-Errors Many spellings were carried over unchanged from the 1804 original, even if they were archaic by 1851, such as "doat", "choak", "staid" (for "stayed") and others. "gale": in pre-Beaufort usage, a synonym for "breeze" "ensign": starting rank in the British infantry until 1870 "prim hedge": probably the same as privet hedge, _Ligustrum vulgare_ "Dr. Franklin": Benjamin Franklin received an honorary doctorate from Oxford in 1762 Misprints the old gentleman thus addressed them [gentlemen] hastily walked the room in much visible agony of mind, [vissible] From them you will be enabled to obtain information [enable] In them we can place the utmost confidence.

intoprepositionUS /ˈɪntuː/

moving to the inside of something

From this reading [Controler] Omniscient dispenser of destinies! [dipenser] where every object would be shrouded in crape [he shrouded] Neither did he enquire into Alonzo's prospects [Oeither] now smooth as polished glass [snooth] the woe-worn head of fortune's fugitive [woe-worm] One

isauxiliary verbUS /ɪz/

the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun

From this reading _All corrections were checked against other versions of the text._ If an apparent error is the same in all available versions, or if the correct form was not deducible from the 1851 text alone, it was left unchanged.

itpronounUS /ɪt/

a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned

From this reading _All corrections were checked against other versions of the text._ If an apparent error is the same in all available versions, or if the correct form was not deducible from the 1851 text alone, it was left unchanged.

leftnounUS /left/

an important story-specific word used in this passage

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Ligustrum

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From this reading Non-Errors Many spellings were carried over unchanged from the 1804 original, even if they were archaic by 1851, such as "doat", "choak", "staid" (for "stayed") and others. "gale": in pre-Beaufort usage, a synonym for "breeze" "ensign": starting rank in the British infantry until 1870 "prim hedge": probably the same as privet hedge, _Ligustrum vulgare_ "Dr. Franklin": Benjamin Franklin received an honorary doctorate from Oxford in 1762 Misprints the old gentleman thus addressed them [gentlemen] hastily walked the room in much visible agony of mind, [vissible] From them you will be enabled to obtain information [enable] In them we can place the utmost confidence.

line

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From this reading [In // In at page break] I will call at your father's [you] He arose after a sleepless night [nights] "Your perverseness, Melissa [previous paragraph ends at line-end; paragraph indent missing] ascended in pyramidical columns to the zenith [columns the zenith] which widening, more rapidly advanced [nore] he betook himself to the forest for shelter [be betook] he set out to return [he sat out] he slowly recovered, but [recov-/ed at line break] Omnipotent Controller of vicissitudes!

line-end

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From this reading [In // In at page break] I will call at your father's [you] He arose after a sleepless night [nights] "Your perverseness, Melissa [previous paragraph ends at line-end; paragraph indent missing] ascended in pyramidical columns to the zenith [columns the zenith] which widening, more rapidly advanced [nore] he betook himself to the forest for shelter [be betook] he set out to return [he sat out] he slowly recovered, but [recov-/ed at line break] Omnipotent Controller of vicissitudes!

Many

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From this reading Non-Errors Many spellings were carried over unchanged from the 1804 original, even if they were archaic by 1851, such as "doat", "choak", "staid" (for "stayed") and others. "gale": in pre-Beaufort usage, a synonym for "breeze" "ensign": starting rank in the British infantry until 1870 "prim hedge": probably the same as privet hedge, _Ligustrum vulgare_ "Dr. Franklin": Benjamin Franklin received an honorary doctorate from Oxford in 1762 Misprints the old gentleman thus addressed them [gentlemen] hastily walked the room in much visible agony of mind, [vissible] From them you will be enabled to obtain information [enable] In them we can place the utmost confidence.

Melissa

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From this reading [In // In at page break] I will call at your father's [you] He arose after a sleepless night [nights] "Your perverseness, Melissa [previous paragraph ends at line-end; paragraph indent missing] ascended in pyramidical columns to the zenith [columns the zenith] which widening, more rapidly advanced [nore] he betook himself to the forest for shelter [be betook] he set out to return [he sat out] he slowly recovered, but [recov-/ed at line break] Omnipotent Controller of vicissitudes!

mindnounUS /mind/

an important story-specific word used in this passage

From this reading Non-Errors Many spellings were carried over unchanged from the 1804 original, even if they were archaic by 1851, such as "doat", "choak", "staid" (for "stayed") and others. "gale": in pre-Beaufort usage, a synonym for "breeze" "ensign": starting rank in the British infantry until 1870 "prim hedge": probably the same as privet hedge, _Ligustrum vulgare_ "Dr. Franklin": Benjamin Franklin received an honorary doctorate from Oxford in 1762 Misprints the old gentleman thus addressed them [gentlemen] hastily walked the room in much visible agony of mind, [vissible] From them you will be enabled to obtain information [enable] In them we can place the utmost confidence.

Misprints

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From this reading Non-Errors Many spellings were carried over unchanged from the 1804 original, even if they were archaic by 1851, such as "doat", "choak", "staid" (for "stayed") and others. "gale": in pre-Beaufort usage, a synonym for "breeze" "ensign": starting rank in the British infantry until 1870 "prim hedge": probably the same as privet hedge, _Ligustrum vulgare_ "Dr. Franklin": Benjamin Franklin received an honorary doctorate from Oxford in 1762 Misprints the old gentleman thus addressed them [gentlemen] hastily walked the room in much visible agony of mind, [vissible] From them you will be enabled to obtain information [enable] In them we can place the utmost confidence.

missing

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From this reading [In // In at page break] I will call at your father's [you] He arose after a sleepless night [nights] "Your perverseness, Melissa [previous paragraph ends at line-end; paragraph indent missing] ascended in pyramidical columns to the zenith [columns the zenith] which widening, more rapidly advanced [nore] he betook himself to the forest for shelter [be betook] he set out to return [he sat out] he slowly recovered, but [recov-/ed at line break] Omnipotent Controller of vicissitudes!

more

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From this reading [In // In at page break] I will call at your father's [you] He arose after a sleepless night [nights] "Your perverseness, Melissa [previous paragraph ends at line-end; paragraph indent missing] ascended in pyramidical columns to the zenith [columns the zenith] which widening, more rapidly advanced [nore] he betook himself to the forest for shelter [be betook] he set out to return [he sat out] he slowly recovered, but [recov-/ed at line break] Omnipotent Controller of vicissitudes!

much

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From this reading Non-Errors Many spellings were carried over unchanged from the 1804 original, even if they were archaic by 1851, such as "doat", "choak", "staid" (for "stayed") and others. "gale": in pre-Beaufort usage, a synonym for "breeze" "ensign": starting rank in the British infantry until 1870 "prim hedge": probably the same as privet hedge, _Ligustrum vulgare_ "Dr. Franklin": Benjamin Franklin received an honorary doctorate from Oxford in 1762 Misprints the old gentleman thus addressed them [gentlemen] hastily walked the room in much visible agony of mind, [vissible] From them you will be enabled to obtain information [enable] In them we can place the utmost confidence.

NeitherdeterminerUS /ˈniːðər/

not one and not the other of two

From this reading [Controler] Omniscient dispenser of destinies! [dipenser] where every object would be shrouded in crape [he shrouded] Neither did he enquire into Alonzo's prospects [Oeither] now smooth as polished glass [snooth] the woe-worn head of fortune's fugitive [woe-worm] One

night

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From this reading [In // In at page break] I will call at your father's [you] He arose after a sleepless night [nights] "Your perverseness, Melissa [previous paragraph ends at line-end; paragraph indent missing] ascended in pyramidical columns to the zenith [columns the zenith] which widening, more rapidly advanced [nore] he betook himself to the forest for shelter [be betook] he set out to return [he sat out] he slowly recovered, but [recov-/ed at line break] Omnipotent Controller of vicissitudes!

nightsnounUS /naɪts/

Periods of darkness between sunset and sunrise.

From this reading [In // In at page break] I will call at your father's [you] He arose after a sleepless night [nights] "Your perverseness, Melissa [previous paragraph ends at line-end; paragraph indent missing] ascended in pyramidical columns to the zenith [columns the zenith] which widening, more rapidly advanced [nore] he betook himself to the forest for shelter [be betook] he set out to return [he sat out] he slowly recovered, but [recov-/ed at line break] Omnipotent Controller of vicissitudes!

Non-Errors

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From this reading Non-Errors Many spellings were carried over unchanged from the 1804 original, even if they were archaic by 1851, such as "doat", "choak", "staid" (for "stayed") and others. "gale": in pre-Beaufort usage, a synonym for "breeze" "ensign": starting rank in the British infantry until 1870 "prim hedge": probably the same as privet hedge, _Ligustrum vulgare_ "Dr. Franklin": Benjamin Franklin received an honorary doctorate from Oxford in 1762 Misprints the old gentleman thus addressed them [gentlemen] hastily walked the room in much visible agony of mind, [vissible] From them you will be enabled to obtain information [enable] In them we can place the utmost confidence.

nore

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From this reading [In // In at page break] I will call at your father's [you] He arose after a sleepless night [nights] "Your perverseness, Melissa [previous paragraph ends at line-end; paragraph indent missing] ascended in pyramidical columns to the zenith [columns the zenith] which widening, more rapidly advanced [nore] he betook himself to the forest for shelter [be betook] he set out to return [he sat out] he slowly recovered, but [recov-/ed at line break] Omnipotent Controller of vicissitudes!

notadverbUS /nɑːt/

used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative

From this reading _All corrections were checked against other versions of the text._ If an apparent error is the same in all available versions, or if the correct form was not deducible from the 1851 text alone, it was left unchanged.

now

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From this reading [Controler] Omniscient dispenser of destinies! [dipenser] where every object would be shrouded in crape [he shrouded] Neither did he enquire into Alonzo's prospects [Oeither] now smooth as polished glass [snooth] the woe-worn head of fortune's fugitive [woe-worm] One

object

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From this reading [Controler] Omniscient dispenser of destinies! [dipenser] where every object would be shrouded in crape [he shrouded] Neither did he enquire into Alonzo's prospects [Oeither] now smooth as polished glass [snooth] the woe-worn head of fortune's fugitive [woe-worm] One

obtainverbUS /əbˈteɪn/

to get something, especially through effort

From this reading Non-Errors Many spellings were carried over unchanged from the 1804 original, even if they were archaic by 1851, such as "doat", "choak", "staid" (for "stayed") and others. "gale": in pre-Beaufort usage, a synonym for "breeze" "ensign": starting rank in the British infantry until 1870 "prim hedge": probably the same as privet hedge, _Ligustrum vulgare_ "Dr. Franklin": Benjamin Franklin received an honorary doctorate from Oxford in 1762 Misprints the old gentleman thus addressed them [gentlemen] hastily walked the room in much visible agony of mind, [vissible] From them you will be enabled to obtain information [enable] In them we can place the utmost confidence.

Oeither

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From this reading [Controler] Omniscient dispenser of destinies! [dipenser] where every object would be shrouded in crape [he shrouded] Neither did he enquire into Alonzo's prospects [Oeither] now smooth as polished glass [snooth] the woe-worn head of fortune's fugitive [woe-worm] One

ofprepositionUS /ʌv/

belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something

From this reading _All corrections were checked against other versions of the text._ If an apparent error is the same in all available versions, or if the correct form was not deducible from the 1851 text alone, it was left unchanged.

old

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From this reading Non-Errors Many spellings were carried over unchanged from the 1804 original, even if they were archaic by 1851, such as "doat", "choak", "staid" (for "stayed") and others. "gale": in pre-Beaufort usage, a synonym for "breeze" "ensign": starting rank in the British infantry until 1870 "prim hedge": probably the same as privet hedge, _Ligustrum vulgare_ "Dr. Franklin": Benjamin Franklin received an honorary doctorate from Oxford in 1762 Misprints the old gentleman thus addressed them [gentlemen] hastily walked the room in much visible agony of mind, [vissible] From them you will be enabled to obtain information [enable] In them we can place the utmost confidence.

Omnipotent

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From this reading [In // In at page break] I will call at your father's [you] He arose after a sleepless night [nights] "Your perverseness, Melissa [previous paragraph ends at line-end; paragraph indent missing] ascended in pyramidical columns to the zenith [columns the zenith] which widening, more rapidly advanced [nore] he betook himself to the forest for shelter [be betook] he set out to return [he sat out] he slowly recovered, but [recov-/ed at line break] Omnipotent Controller of vicissitudes!

Omniscient

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From this reading [Controler] Omniscient dispenser of destinies! [dipenser] where every object would be shrouded in crape [he shrouded] Neither did he enquire into Alonzo's prospects [Oeither] now smooth as polished glass [snooth] the woe-worn head of fortune's fugitive [woe-worm] One

OnepronounUS /wʌn/

used to mean any person in general, including the speaker

From this reading [Controler] Omniscient dispenser of destinies! [dipenser] where every object would be shrouded in crape [he shrouded] Neither did he enquire into Alonzo's prospects [Oeither] now smooth as polished glass [snooth] the woe-worn head of fortune's fugitive [woe-worm] One

orconjunctionUS /ɔːr/

used to join alternatives or possibilities

From this reading _All corrections were checked against other versions of the text._ If an apparent error is the same in all available versions, or if the correct form was not deducible from the 1851 text alone, it was left unchanged.

original

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From this reading Non-Errors Many spellings were carried over unchanged from the 1804 original, even if they were archaic by 1851, such as "doat", "choak", "staid" (for "stayed") and others. "gale": in pre-Beaufort usage, a synonym for "breeze" "ensign": starting rank in the British infantry until 1870 "prim hedge": probably the same as privet hedge, _Ligustrum vulgare_ "Dr. Franklin": Benjamin Franklin received an honorary doctorate from Oxford in 1762 Misprints the old gentleman thus addressed them [gentlemen] hastily walked the room in much visible agony of mind, [vissible] From them you will be enabled to obtain information [enable] In them we can place the utmost confidence.

other

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others

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From this reading Non-Errors Many spellings were carried over unchanged from the 1804 original, even if they were archaic by 1851, such as "doat", "choak", "staid" (for "stayed") and others. "gale": in pre-Beaufort usage, a synonym for "breeze" "ensign": starting rank in the British infantry until 1870 "prim hedge": probably the same as privet hedge, _Ligustrum vulgare_ "Dr. Franklin": Benjamin Franklin received an honorary doctorate from Oxford in 1762 Misprints the old gentleman thus addressed them [gentlemen] hastily walked the room in much visible agony of mind, [vissible] From them you will be enabled to obtain information [enable] In them we can place the utmost confidence.

out

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From this reading [In // In at page break] I will call at your father's [you] He arose after a sleepless night [nights] "Your perverseness, Melissa [previous paragraph ends at line-end; paragraph indent missing] ascended in pyramidical columns to the zenith [columns the zenith] which widening, more rapidly advanced [nore] he betook himself to the forest for shelter [be betook] he set out to return [he sat out] he slowly recovered, but [recov-/ed at line break] Omnipotent Controller of vicissitudes!

overprepositionUS /ˈoʊvər/

above and across; more than

From this reading Non-Errors Many spellings were carried over unchanged from the 1804 original, even if they were archaic by 1851, such as "doat", "choak", "staid" (for "stayed") and others. "gale": in pre-Beaufort usage, a synonym for "breeze" "ensign": starting rank in the British infantry until 1870 "prim hedge": probably the same as privet hedge, _Ligustrum vulgare_ "Dr. Franklin": Benjamin Franklin received an honorary doctorate from Oxford in 1762 Misprints the old gentleman thus addressed them [gentlemen] hastily walked the room in much visible agony of mind, [vissible] From them you will be enabled to obtain information [enable] In them we can place the utmost confidence.

Oxford

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From this reading Non-Errors Many spellings were carried over unchanged from the 1804 original, even if they were archaic by 1851, such as "doat", "choak", "staid" (for "stayed") and others. "gale": in pre-Beaufort usage, a synonym for "breeze" "ensign": starting rank in the British infantry until 1870 "prim hedge": probably the same as privet hedge, _Ligustrum vulgare_ "Dr. Franklin": Benjamin Franklin received an honorary doctorate from Oxford in 1762 Misprints the old gentleman thus addressed them [gentlemen] hastily walked the room in much visible agony of mind, [vissible] From them you will be enabled to obtain information [enable] In them we can place the utmost confidence.

page

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From this reading [In // In at page break] I will call at your father's [you] He arose after a sleepless night [nights] "Your perverseness, Melissa [previous paragraph ends at line-end; paragraph indent missing] ascended in pyramidical columns to the zenith [columns the zenith] which widening, more rapidly advanced [nore] he betook himself to the forest for shelter [be betook] he set out to return [he sat out] he slowly recovered, but [recov-/ed at line break] Omnipotent Controller of vicissitudes!

paragraph

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From this reading [In // In at page break] I will call at your father's [you] He arose after a sleepless night [nights] "Your perverseness, Melissa [previous paragraph ends at line-end; paragraph indent missing] ascended in pyramidical columns to the zenith [columns the zenith] which widening, more rapidly advanced [nore] he betook himself to the forest for shelter [be betook] he set out to return [he sat out] he slowly recovered, but [recov-/ed at line break] Omnipotent Controller of vicissitudes!

perverseness

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From this reading [In // In at page break] I will call at your father's [you] He arose after a sleepless night [nights] "Your perverseness, Melissa [previous paragraph ends at line-end; paragraph indent missing] ascended in pyramidical columns to the zenith [columns the zenith] which widening, more rapidly advanced [nore] he betook himself to the forest for shelter [be betook] he set out to return [he sat out] he slowly recovered, but [recov-/ed at line break] Omnipotent Controller of vicissitudes!

place

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From this reading Non-Errors Many spellings were carried over unchanged from the 1804 original, even if they were archaic by 1851, such as "doat", "choak", "staid" (for "stayed") and others. "gale": in pre-Beaufort usage, a synonym for "breeze" "ensign": starting rank in the British infantry until 1870 "prim hedge": probably the same as privet hedge, _Ligustrum vulgare_ "Dr. Franklin": Benjamin Franklin received an honorary doctorate from Oxford in 1762 Misprints the old gentleman thus addressed them [gentlemen] hastily walked the room in much visible agony of mind, [vissible] From them you will be enabled to obtain information [enable] In them we can place the utmost confidence.

polished

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From this reading [Controler] Omniscient dispenser of destinies! [dipenser] where every object would be shrouded in crape [he shrouded] Neither did he enquire into Alonzo's prospects [Oeither] now smooth as polished glass [snooth] the woe-worn head of fortune's fugitive [woe-worm] One

pre-Beaufort

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From this reading Non-Errors Many spellings were carried over unchanged from the 1804 original, even if they were archaic by 1851, such as "doat", "choak", "staid" (for "stayed") and others. "gale": in pre-Beaufort usage, a synonym for "breeze" "ensign": starting rank in the British infantry until 1870 "prim hedge": probably the same as privet hedge, _Ligustrum vulgare_ "Dr. Franklin": Benjamin Franklin received an honorary doctorate from Oxford in 1762 Misprints the old gentleman thus addressed them [gentlemen] hastily walked the room in much visible agony of mind, [vissible] From them you will be enabled to obtain information [enable] In them we can place the utmost confidence.

previous

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From this reading [In // In at page break] I will call at your father's [you] He arose after a sleepless night [nights] "Your perverseness, Melissa [previous paragraph ends at line-end; paragraph indent missing] ascended in pyramidical columns to the zenith [columns the zenith] which widening, more rapidly advanced [nore] he betook himself to the forest for shelter [be betook] he set out to return [he sat out] he slowly recovered, but [recov-/ed at line break] Omnipotent Controller of vicissitudes!

prim

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From this reading Non-Errors Many spellings were carried over unchanged from the 1804 original, even if they were archaic by 1851, such as "doat", "choak", "staid" (for "stayed") and others. "gale": in pre-Beaufort usage, a synonym for "breeze" "ensign": starting rank in the British infantry until 1870 "prim hedge": probably the same as privet hedge, _Ligustrum vulgare_ "Dr. Franklin": Benjamin Franklin received an honorary doctorate from Oxford in 1762 Misprints the old gentleman thus addressed them [gentlemen] hastily walked the room in much visible agony of mind, [vissible] From them you will be enabled to obtain information [enable] In them we can place the utmost confidence.

privet

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From this reading Non-Errors Many spellings were carried over unchanged from the 1804 original, even if they were archaic by 1851, such as "doat", "choak", "staid" (for "stayed") and others. "gale": in pre-Beaufort usage, a synonym for "breeze" "ensign": starting rank in the British infantry until 1870 "prim hedge": probably the same as privet hedge, _Ligustrum vulgare_ "Dr. Franklin": Benjamin Franklin received an honorary doctorate from Oxford in 1762 Misprints the old gentleman thus addressed them [gentlemen] hastily walked the room in much visible agony of mind, [vissible] From them you will be enabled to obtain information [enable] In them we can place the utmost confidence.

probably

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From this reading Non-Errors Many spellings were carried over unchanged from the 1804 original, even if they were archaic by 1851, such as "doat", "choak", "staid" (for "stayed") and others. "gale": in pre-Beaufort usage, a synonym for "breeze" "ensign": starting rank in the British infantry until 1870 "prim hedge": probably the same as privet hedge, _Ligustrum vulgare_ "Dr. Franklin": Benjamin Franklin received an honorary doctorate from Oxford in 1762 Misprints the old gentleman thus addressed them [gentlemen] hastily walked the room in much visible agony of mind, [vissible] From them you will be enabled to obtain information [enable] In them we can place the utmost confidence.

prospects

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From this reading [Controler] Omniscient dispenser of destinies! [dipenser] where every object would be shrouded in crape [he shrouded] Neither did he enquire into Alonzo's prospects [Oeither] now smooth as polished glass [snooth] the woe-worn head of fortune's fugitive [woe-worm] One

pyramidical

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From this reading [In // In at page break] I will call at your father's [you] He arose after a sleepless night [nights] "Your perverseness, Melissa [previous paragraph ends at line-end; paragraph indent missing] ascended in pyramidical columns to the zenith [columns the zenith] which widening, more rapidly advanced [nore] he betook himself to the forest for shelter [be betook] he set out to return [he sat out] he slowly recovered, but [recov-/ed at line break] Omnipotent Controller of vicissitudes!

rank

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From this reading Non-Errors Many spellings were carried over unchanged from the 1804 original, even if they were archaic by 1851, such as "doat", "choak", "staid" (for "stayed") and others. "gale": in pre-Beaufort usage, a synonym for "breeze" "ensign": starting rank in the British infantry until 1870 "prim hedge": probably the same as privet hedge, _Ligustrum vulgare_ "Dr. Franklin": Benjamin Franklin received an honorary doctorate from Oxford in 1762 Misprints the old gentleman thus addressed them [gentlemen] hastily walked the room in much visible agony of mind, [vissible] From them you will be enabled to obtain information [enable] In them we can place the utmost confidence.

rapidly

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From this reading [In // In at page break] I will call at your father's [you] He arose after a sleepless night [nights] "Your perverseness, Melissa [previous paragraph ends at line-end; paragraph indent missing] ascended in pyramidical columns to the zenith [columns the zenith] which widening, more rapidly advanced [nore] he betook himself to the forest for shelter [be betook] he set out to return [he sat out] he slowly recovered, but [recov-/ed at line break] Omnipotent Controller of vicissitudes!

received

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From this reading Non-Errors Many spellings were carried over unchanged from the 1804 original, even if they were archaic by 1851, such as "doat", "choak", "staid" (for "stayed") and others. "gale": in pre-Beaufort usage, a synonym for "breeze" "ensign": starting rank in the British infantry until 1870 "prim hedge": probably the same as privet hedge, _Ligustrum vulgare_ "Dr. Franklin": Benjamin Franklin received an honorary doctorate from Oxford in 1762 Misprints the old gentleman thus addressed them [gentlemen] hastily walked the room in much visible agony of mind, [vissible] From them you will be enabled to obtain information [enable] In them we can place the utmost confidence.

recov

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From this reading [In // In at page break] I will call at your father's [you] He arose after a sleepless night [nights] "Your perverseness, Melissa [previous paragraph ends at line-end; paragraph indent missing] ascended in pyramidical columns to the zenith [columns the zenith] which widening, more rapidly advanced [nore] he betook himself to the forest for shelter [be betook] he set out to return [he sat out] he slowly recovered, but [recov-/ed at line break] Omnipotent Controller of vicissitudes!

recovered

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From this reading [In // In at page break] I will call at your father's [you] He arose after a sleepless night [nights] "Your perverseness, Melissa [previous paragraph ends at line-end; paragraph indent missing] ascended in pyramidical columns to the zenith [columns the zenith] which widening, more rapidly advanced [nore] he betook himself to the forest for shelter [be betook] he set out to return [he sat out] he slowly recovered, but [recov-/ed at line break] Omnipotent Controller of vicissitudes!

return

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From this reading [In // In at page break] I will call at your father's [you] He arose after a sleepless night [nights] "Your perverseness, Melissa [previous paragraph ends at line-end; paragraph indent missing] ascended in pyramidical columns to the zenith [columns the zenith] which widening, more rapidly advanced [nore] he betook himself to the forest for shelter [be betook] he set out to return [he sat out] he slowly recovered, but [recov-/ed at line break] Omnipotent Controller of vicissitudes!

room

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From this reading Non-Errors Many spellings were carried over unchanged from the 1804 original, even if they were archaic by 1851, such as "doat", "choak", "staid" (for "stayed") and others. "gale": in pre-Beaufort usage, a synonym for "breeze" "ensign": starting rank in the British infantry until 1870 "prim hedge": probably the same as privet hedge, _Ligustrum vulgare_ "Dr. Franklin": Benjamin Franklin received an honorary doctorate from Oxford in 1762 Misprints the old gentleman thus addressed them [gentlemen] hastily walked the room in much visible agony of mind, [vissible] From them you will be enabled to obtain information [enable] In them we can place the utmost confidence.

samenounUS /same/

an important story-specific word used in this passage

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sat

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From this reading [In // In at page break] I will call at your father's [you] He arose after a sleepless night [nights] "Your perverseness, Melissa [previous paragraph ends at line-end; paragraph indent missing] ascended in pyramidical columns to the zenith [columns the zenith] which widening, more rapidly advanced [nore] he betook himself to the forest for shelter [be betook] he set out to return [he sat out] he slowly recovered, but [recov-/ed at line break] Omnipotent Controller of vicissitudes!

set

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From this reading [In // In at page break] I will call at your father's [you] He arose after a sleepless night [nights] "Your perverseness, Melissa [previous paragraph ends at line-end; paragraph indent missing] ascended in pyramidical columns to the zenith [columns the zenith] which widening, more rapidly advanced [nore] he betook himself to the forest for shelter [be betook] he set out to return [he sat out] he slowly recovered, but [recov-/ed at line break] Omnipotent Controller of vicissitudes!

shelter

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From this reading [In // In at page break] I will call at your father's [you] He arose after a sleepless night [nights] "Your perverseness, Melissa [previous paragraph ends at line-end; paragraph indent missing] ascended in pyramidical columns to the zenith [columns the zenith] which widening, more rapidly advanced [nore] he betook himself to the forest for shelter [be betook] he set out to return [he sat out] he slowly recovered, but [recov-/ed at line break] Omnipotent Controller of vicissitudes!

shrouded

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From this reading [Controler] Omniscient dispenser of destinies! [dipenser] where every object would be shrouded in crape [he shrouded] Neither did he enquire into Alonzo's prospects [Oeither] now smooth as polished glass [snooth] the woe-worn head of fortune's fugitive [woe-worm] One

sleepless

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From this reading [In // In at page break] I will call at your father's [you] He arose after a sleepless night [nights] "Your perverseness, Melissa [previous paragraph ends at line-end; paragraph indent missing] ascended in pyramidical columns to the zenith [columns the zenith] which widening, more rapidly advanced [nore] he betook himself to the forest for shelter [be betook] he set out to return [he sat out] he slowly recovered, but [recov-/ed at line break] Omnipotent Controller of vicissitudes!

slowly

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From this reading [In // In at page break] I will call at your father's [you] He arose after a sleepless night [nights] "Your perverseness, Melissa [previous paragraph ends at line-end; paragraph indent missing] ascended in pyramidical columns to the zenith [columns the zenith] which widening, more rapidly advanced [nore] he betook himself to the forest for shelter [be betook] he set out to return [he sat out] he slowly recovered, but [recov-/ed at line break] Omnipotent Controller of vicissitudes!

smooth

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From this reading [Controler] Omniscient dispenser of destinies! [dipenser] where every object would be shrouded in crape [he shrouded] Neither did he enquire into Alonzo's prospects [Oeither] now smooth as polished glass [snooth] the woe-worn head of fortune's fugitive [woe-worm] One

snooth

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From this reading [Controler] Omniscient dispenser of destinies! [dipenser] where every object would be shrouded in crape [he shrouded] Neither did he enquire into Alonzo's prospects [Oeither] now smooth as polished glass [snooth] the woe-worn head of fortune's fugitive [woe-worm] One

spellings

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From this reading Non-Errors Many spellings were carried over unchanged from the 1804 original, even if they were archaic by 1851, such as "doat", "choak", "staid" (for "stayed") and others. "gale": in pre-Beaufort usage, a synonym for "breeze" "ensign": starting rank in the British infantry until 1870 "prim hedge": probably the same as privet hedge, _Ligustrum vulgare_ "Dr. Franklin": Benjamin Franklin received an honorary doctorate from Oxford in 1762 Misprints the old gentleman thus addressed them [gentlemen] hastily walked the room in much visible agony of mind, [vissible] From them you will be enabled to obtain information [enable] In them we can place the utmost confidence.

staid

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From this reading Non-Errors Many spellings were carried over unchanged from the 1804 original, even if they were archaic by 1851, such as "doat", "choak", "staid" (for "stayed") and others. "gale": in pre-Beaufort usage, a synonym for "breeze" "ensign": starting rank in the British infantry until 1870 "prim hedge": probably the same as privet hedge, _Ligustrum vulgare_ "Dr. Franklin": Benjamin Franklin received an honorary doctorate from Oxford in 1762 Misprints the old gentleman thus addressed them [gentlemen] hastily walked the room in much visible agony of mind, [vissible] From them you will be enabled to obtain information [enable] In them we can place the utmost confidence.

starting

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From this reading Non-Errors Many spellings were carried over unchanged from the 1804 original, even if they were archaic by 1851, such as "doat", "choak", "staid" (for "stayed") and others. "gale": in pre-Beaufort usage, a synonym for "breeze" "ensign": starting rank in the British infantry until 1870 "prim hedge": probably the same as privet hedge, _Ligustrum vulgare_ "Dr. Franklin": Benjamin Franklin received an honorary doctorate from Oxford in 1762 Misprints the old gentleman thus addressed them [gentlemen] hastily walked the room in much visible agony of mind, [vissible] From them you will be enabled to obtain information [enable] In them we can place the utmost confidence.

stayed

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From this reading Non-Errors Many spellings were carried over unchanged from the 1804 original, even if they were archaic by 1851, such as "doat", "choak", "staid" (for "stayed") and others. "gale": in pre-Beaufort usage, a synonym for "breeze" "ensign": starting rank in the British infantry until 1870 "prim hedge": probably the same as privet hedge, _Ligustrum vulgare_ "Dr. Franklin": Benjamin Franklin received an honorary doctorate from Oxford in 1762 Misprints the old gentleman thus addressed them [gentlemen] hastily walked the room in much visible agony of mind, [vissible] From them you will be enabled to obtain information [enable] In them we can place the utmost confidence.

suchdeterminerUS /sʌtʃ/

of the kind already mentioned

From this reading Non-Errors Many spellings were carried over unchanged from the 1804 original, even if they were archaic by 1851, such as "doat", "choak", "staid" (for "stayed") and others. "gale": in pre-Beaufort usage, a synonym for "breeze" "ensign": starting rank in the British infantry until 1870 "prim hedge": probably the same as privet hedge, _Ligustrum vulgare_ "Dr. Franklin": Benjamin Franklin received an honorary doctorate from Oxford in 1762 Misprints the old gentleman thus addressed them [gentlemen] hastily walked the room in much visible agony of mind, [vissible] From them you will be enabled to obtain information [enable] In them we can place the utmost confidence.

synonym

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From this reading Non-Errors Many spellings were carried over unchanged from the 1804 original, even if they were archaic by 1851, such as "doat", "choak", "staid" (for "stayed") and others. "gale": in pre-Beaufort usage, a synonym for "breeze" "ensign": starting rank in the British infantry until 1870 "prim hedge": probably the same as privet hedge, _Ligustrum vulgare_ "Dr. Franklin": Benjamin Franklin received an honorary doctorate from Oxford in 1762 Misprints the old gentleman thus addressed them [gentlemen] hastily walked the room in much visible agony of mind, [vissible] From them you will be enabled to obtain information [enable] In them we can place the utmost confidence.

text

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thedeterminerUS /ðə/

used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind

From this reading _All corrections were checked against other versions of the text._ If an apparent error is the same in all available versions, or if the correct form was not deducible from the 1851 text alone, it was left unchanged.

thempronounUS /ðem/

the people or things already mentioned, as the object

From this reading Non-Errors Many spellings were carried over unchanged from the 1804 original, even if they were archaic by 1851, such as "doat", "choak", "staid" (for "stayed") and others. "gale": in pre-Beaufort usage, a synonym for "breeze" "ensign": starting rank in the British infantry until 1870 "prim hedge": probably the same as privet hedge, _Ligustrum vulgare_ "Dr. Franklin": Benjamin Franklin received an honorary doctorate from Oxford in 1762 Misprints the old gentleman thus addressed them [gentlemen] hastily walked the room in much visible agony of mind, [vissible] From them you will be enabled to obtain information [enable] In them we can place the utmost confidence.

theypronounUS /ðeɪ/

the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject

From this reading Non-Errors Many spellings were carried over unchanged from the 1804 original, even if they were archaic by 1851, such as "doat", "choak", "staid" (for "stayed") and others. "gale": in pre-Beaufort usage, a synonym for "breeze" "ensign": starting rank in the British infantry until 1870 "prim hedge": probably the same as privet hedge, _Ligustrum vulgare_ "Dr. Franklin": Benjamin Franklin received an honorary doctorate from Oxford in 1762 Misprints the old gentleman thus addressed them [gentlemen] hastily walked the room in much visible agony of mind, [vissible] From them you will be enabled to obtain information [enable] In them we can place the utmost confidence.

thus

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From this reading Non-Errors Many spellings were carried over unchanged from the 1804 original, even if they were archaic by 1851, such as "doat", "choak", "staid" (for "stayed") and others. "gale": in pre-Beaufort usage, a synonym for "breeze" "ensign": starting rank in the British infantry until 1870 "prim hedge": probably the same as privet hedge, _Ligustrum vulgare_ "Dr. Franklin": Benjamin Franklin received an honorary doctorate from Oxford in 1762 Misprints the old gentleman thus addressed them [gentlemen] hastily walked the room in much visible agony of mind, [vissible] From them you will be enabled to obtain information [enable] In them we can place the utmost confidence.

toparticleUS /tuː/

used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive

From this reading Non-Errors Many spellings were carried over unchanged from the 1804 original, even if they were archaic by 1851, such as "doat", "choak", "staid" (for "stayed") and others. "gale": in pre-Beaufort usage, a synonym for "breeze" "ensign": starting rank in the British infantry until 1870 "prim hedge": probably the same as privet hedge, _Ligustrum vulgare_ "Dr. Franklin": Benjamin Franklin received an honorary doctorate from Oxford in 1762 Misprints the old gentleman thus addressed them [gentlemen] hastily walked the room in much visible agony of mind, [vissible] From them you will be enabled to obtain information [enable] In them we can place the utmost confidence.

unchanged

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untilprepositionUS /ənˈtɪl/

up to a particular time

From this reading Non-Errors Many spellings were carried over unchanged from the 1804 original, even if they were archaic by 1851, such as "doat", "choak", "staid" (for "stayed") and others. "gale": in pre-Beaufort usage, a synonym for "breeze" "ensign": starting rank in the British infantry until 1870 "prim hedge": probably the same as privet hedge, _Ligustrum vulgare_ "Dr. Franklin": Benjamin Franklin received an honorary doctorate from Oxford in 1762 Misprints the old gentleman thus addressed them [gentlemen] hastily walked the room in much visible agony of mind, [vissible] From them you will be enabled to obtain information [enable] In them we can place the utmost confidence.

usage

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From this reading Non-Errors Many spellings were carried over unchanged from the 1804 original, even if they were archaic by 1851, such as "doat", "choak", "staid" (for "stayed") and others. "gale": in pre-Beaufort usage, a synonym for "breeze" "ensign": starting rank in the British infantry until 1870 "prim hedge": probably the same as privet hedge, _Ligustrum vulgare_ "Dr. Franklin": Benjamin Franklin received an honorary doctorate from Oxford in 1762 Misprints the old gentleman thus addressed them [gentlemen] hastily walked the room in much visible agony of mind, [vissible] From them you will be enabled to obtain information [enable] In them we can place the utmost confidence.

utmost

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From this reading Non-Errors Many spellings were carried over unchanged from the 1804 original, even if they were archaic by 1851, such as "doat", "choak", "staid" (for "stayed") and others. "gale": in pre-Beaufort usage, a synonym for "breeze" "ensign": starting rank in the British infantry until 1870 "prim hedge": probably the same as privet hedge, _Ligustrum vulgare_ "Dr. Franklin": Benjamin Franklin received an honorary doctorate from Oxford in 1762 Misprints the old gentleman thus addressed them [gentlemen] hastily walked the room in much visible agony of mind, [vissible] From them you will be enabled to obtain information [enable] In them we can place the utmost confidence.

versions

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vicissitudes

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From this reading [In // In at page break] I will call at your father's [you] He arose after a sleepless night [nights] "Your perverseness, Melissa [previous paragraph ends at line-end; paragraph indent missing] ascended in pyramidical columns to the zenith [columns the zenith] which widening, more rapidly advanced [nore] he betook himself to the forest for shelter [be betook] he set out to return [he sat out] he slowly recovered, but [recov-/ed at line break] Omnipotent Controller of vicissitudes!

visible

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From this reading Non-Errors Many spellings were carried over unchanged from the 1804 original, even if they were archaic by 1851, such as "doat", "choak", "staid" (for "stayed") and others. "gale": in pre-Beaufort usage, a synonym for "breeze" "ensign": starting rank in the British infantry until 1870 "prim hedge": probably the same as privet hedge, _Ligustrum vulgare_ "Dr. Franklin": Benjamin Franklin received an honorary doctorate from Oxford in 1762 Misprints the old gentleman thus addressed them [gentlemen] hastily walked the room in much visible agony of mind, [vissible] From them you will be enabled to obtain information [enable] In them we can place the utmost confidence.

vissible

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From this reading Non-Errors Many spellings were carried over unchanged from the 1804 original, even if they were archaic by 1851, such as "doat", "choak", "staid" (for "stayed") and others. "gale": in pre-Beaufort usage, a synonym for "breeze" "ensign": starting rank in the British infantry until 1870 "prim hedge": probably the same as privet hedge, _Ligustrum vulgare_ "Dr. Franklin": Benjamin Franklin received an honorary doctorate from Oxford in 1762 Misprints the old gentleman thus addressed them [gentlemen] hastily walked the room in much visible agony of mind, [vissible] From them you will be enabled to obtain information [enable] In them we can place the utmost confidence.

vulgare

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From this reading Non-Errors Many spellings were carried over unchanged from the 1804 original, even if they were archaic by 1851, such as "doat", "choak", "staid" (for "stayed") and others. "gale": in pre-Beaufort usage, a synonym for "breeze" "ensign": starting rank in the British infantry until 1870 "prim hedge": probably the same as privet hedge, _Ligustrum vulgare_ "Dr. Franklin": Benjamin Franklin received an honorary doctorate from Oxford in 1762 Misprints the old gentleman thus addressed them [gentlemen] hastily walked the room in much visible agony of mind, [vissible] From them you will be enabled to obtain information [enable] In them we can place the utmost confidence.

walked

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From this reading Non-Errors Many spellings were carried over unchanged from the 1804 original, even if they were archaic by 1851, such as "doat", "choak", "staid" (for "stayed") and others. "gale": in pre-Beaufort usage, a synonym for "breeze" "ensign": starting rank in the British infantry until 1870 "prim hedge": probably the same as privet hedge, _Ligustrum vulgare_ "Dr. Franklin": Benjamin Franklin received an honorary doctorate from Oxford in 1762 Misprints the old gentleman thus addressed them [gentlemen] hastily walked the room in much visible agony of mind, [vissible] From them you will be enabled to obtain information [enable] In them we can place the utmost confidence.

wasauxiliary verbUS /wɑːz/

the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun

From this reading _All corrections were checked against other versions of the text._ If an apparent error is the same in all available versions, or if the correct form was not deducible from the 1851 text alone, it was left unchanged.

wepronounUS /wiː/

the speaker together with one or more other people

From this reading Non-Errors Many spellings were carried over unchanged from the 1804 original, even if they were archaic by 1851, such as "doat", "choak", "staid" (for "stayed") and others. "gale": in pre-Beaufort usage, a synonym for "breeze" "ensign": starting rank in the British infantry until 1870 "prim hedge": probably the same as privet hedge, _Ligustrum vulgare_ "Dr. Franklin": Benjamin Franklin received an honorary doctorate from Oxford in 1762 Misprints the old gentleman thus addressed them [gentlemen] hastily walked the room in much visible agony of mind, [vissible] From them you will be enabled to obtain information [enable] In them we can place the utmost confidence.

wereauxiliary verbUS /wɜːr/

the past form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun

From this reading _All corrections were checked against other versions of the text._ If an apparent error is the same in all available versions, or if the correct form was not deducible from the 1851 text alone, it was left unchanged.

whereconjunctionUS /wer/

in or at the place that

From this reading [Controler] Omniscient dispenser of destinies! [dipenser] where every object would be shrouded in crape [he shrouded] Neither did he enquire into Alonzo's prospects [Oeither] now smooth as polished glass [snooth] the woe-worn head of fortune's fugitive [woe-worm] One

whichpronounUS /wɪtʃ/

used to introduce a clause giving more about a thing just mentioned

From this reading [In // In at page break] I will call at your father's [you] He arose after a sleepless night [nights] "Your perverseness, Melissa [previous paragraph ends at line-end; paragraph indent missing] ascended in pyramidical columns to the zenith [columns the zenith] which widening, more rapidly advanced [nore] he betook himself to the forest for shelter [be betook] he set out to return [he sat out] he slowly recovered, but [recov-/ed at line break] Omnipotent Controller of vicissitudes!

widening

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From this reading [In // In at page break] I will call at your father's [you] He arose after a sleepless night [nights] "Your perverseness, Melissa [previous paragraph ends at line-end; paragraph indent missing] ascended in pyramidical columns to the zenith [columns the zenith] which widening, more rapidly advanced [nore] he betook himself to the forest for shelter [be betook] he set out to return [he sat out] he slowly recovered, but [recov-/ed at line break] Omnipotent Controller of vicissitudes!

willmodal verbUS /wɪl/

used to talk about the future, or about willingness

From this reading Non-Errors Many spellings were carried over unchanged from the 1804 original, even if they were archaic by 1851, such as "doat", "choak", "staid" (for "stayed") and others. "gale": in pre-Beaufort usage, a synonym for "breeze" "ensign": starting rank in the British infantry until 1870 "prim hedge": probably the same as privet hedge, _Ligustrum vulgare_ "Dr. Franklin": Benjamin Franklin received an honorary doctorate from Oxford in 1762 Misprints the old gentleman thus addressed them [gentlemen] hastily walked the room in much visible agony of mind, [vissible] From them you will be enabled to obtain information [enable] In them we can place the utmost confidence.

woe-worm

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From this reading [Controler] Omniscient dispenser of destinies! [dipenser] where every object would be shrouded in crape [he shrouded] Neither did he enquire into Alonzo's prospects [Oeither] now smooth as polished glass [snooth] the woe-worn head of fortune's fugitive [woe-worm] One

woe-worn

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From this reading [Controler] Omniscient dispenser of destinies! [dipenser] where every object would be shrouded in crape [he shrouded] Neither did he enquire into Alonzo's prospects [Oeither] now smooth as polished glass [snooth] the woe-worn head of fortune's fugitive [woe-worm] One

wouldmodal verbUS /wʊd/

used for something imagined, polite, or habitual in the past

From this reading [Controler] Omniscient dispenser of destinies! [dipenser] where every object would be shrouded in crape [he shrouded] Neither did he enquire into Alonzo's prospects [Oeither] now smooth as polished glass [snooth] the woe-worn head of fortune's fugitive [woe-worm] One

youpronounUS /juː/

the person or people being spoken to

From this reading Non-Errors Many spellings were carried over unchanged from the 1804 original, even if they were archaic by 1851, such as "doat", "choak", "staid" (for "stayed") and others. "gale": in pre-Beaufort usage, a synonym for "breeze" "ensign": starting rank in the British infantry until 1870 "prim hedge": probably the same as privet hedge, _Ligustrum vulgare_ "Dr. Franklin": Benjamin Franklin received an honorary doctorate from Oxford in 1762 Misprints the old gentleman thus addressed them [gentlemen] hastily walked the room in much visible agony of mind, [vissible] From them you will be enabled to obtain information [enable] In them we can place the utmost confidence.

yourdeterminerUS /jɔːr/

belonging to the person or people being spoken to

From this reading [In // In at page break] I will call at your father's [you] He arose after a sleepless night [nights] "Your perverseness, Melissa [previous paragraph ends at line-end; paragraph indent missing] ascended in pyramidical columns to the zenith [columns the zenith] which widening, more rapidly advanced [nore] he betook himself to the forest for shelter [be betook] he set out to return [he sat out] he slowly recovered, but [recov-/ed at line break] Omnipotent Controller of vicissitudes!

zenith

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From this reading [In // In at page break] I will call at your father's [you] He arose after a sleepless night [nights] "Your perverseness, Melissa [previous paragraph ends at line-end; paragraph indent missing] ascended in pyramidical columns to the zenith [columns the zenith] which widening, more rapidly advanced [nore] he betook himself to the forest for shelter [be betook] he set out to return [he sat out] he slowly recovered, but [recov-/ed at line break] Omnipotent Controller of vicissitudes!