The names throughout are very incorrectly given, and probably the printer composed from a copy in which some alterations had been made in the dramatis personae, but incompletely.
Many similar very slight alterations of spelling have been silently made in the text, and are not worth specifying here.
I have made such alterations as are purely trivial without giving notice.
The few slight alterations which appear in them are such as could have been made without reference to MSS.
There are some curious variations in the copies, which suggest that some alterations were here made by the author.
The Grecian tragedians certainly allowed themselves a great latitude in changing the circumstances of their myths, but the alterations were always consistent with the general and prevalent notions of the heroic age.
The alterations in Christie's eighteen stanzas are: 1^3.
The alterations according to the singing of Christie's old woman are, as usual with him in such cases, utterly insignificant.
Christie gives the ballad from Scott (omitting stanzas 10-18), "with slight alterations from the way she sung it.
An epitome (eleven eight-line stanzas) of Buchan's version, with some slight alterations from the way the editor has heard the ballad sung.
Adjustments, alterationswere made, easements under the arms, tightenings about the waist.
Then Alec handed to me a little piece of French chalk, such as tailors and dressmakers employ to indicate alterations when fitting on garments.
He had tactfully suggested substantive alterations to minimize warning time to the depot and its nearby transports.
Cumulative genetic and accelerated evolutionary alterations to the human body along with the effects of unique, often hostile, environments plus sheer distance from the familiar transformed humans-in-space into something else.
If others have taken their place, it must be clearly shown whether the new conditions of existence are compatible with the old arrangements; and, if not, what alterations of the latter are required.
So she returned to the drawing-room, where she was met with the tidings that her boudoir was ready for occupation, and nothing now remained to be done, unless her ladyship had any alterations to suggest, or deficiencies to point out.
When the alterations had been made, he went to Turin, and came home with the entire contents of an apothecary shop, with which the shelves of his laboratory are filled.
The Act, as I have stated before, altered the constitution of the Railway Commission, and also effected minor alterations in the law relating to railways and canals, but its main purpose was the revision of Maximum Rates and Charges.
I know a man of modern ideas who came into the possession of one and determined to make alterations in it, but somehow or other the alterations were postponed.
IF any of the Bucks of the sixties were suddenly brought to life and placed in the centre of Piccadilly Circus, no labyrinth could more completely puzzle them than the structural alterations of to-day.
Some alterations were being carried out in the General Post-office in Paris, when there was found, in a panel situated near a letter-box, a letter which had been posted just fifty years before.
One of the legal tender notes of the United States; -- first issued in 1862, and having the devices on the back printed with green ink, to prevent alterations and counterfeits.
A similar wheel used to roughen the surface of a plate, as in making alterations in a mezzotint.
They were prepared to give the new views their just place and to examine whatalterations the old views must undergo in order to be brought into harmony with the new data.
The name of Charles Darwin stands with those of Galileo, Newton, and Robert Mayer--names which denote new problems and greatalterations in our conception of the universe.
Twelve years later this book was re-issued, with additions of more or less value, with alterations generally to be regretted, and with omissions invariably to be deplored.
Mr. Massie is said to have "an unlimited supply of poems on hand which he desires to publish," but it is evident that some preliminary alterations would not be undesirable.
Many, however, follow more than one form; and some writers change from one form to another as advancing years producealterations in their mental processes or points of view.
She was exact to the appointment, and very kindly rewarded me a second time; and in the evening, under pretence of some alterations to be made in the petition, she afforded an excellent opportunity of reaping a third recompense.
The damage, however, to the vivacity of the whole narrative, by the persistentalterations of M.
In consequence of the alterations which had been made in the canal, it was found necessary to construct numerous large bridges.
About this time Telford was consulted by Mr. Pulteney*[4] respecting the alterations making in the mansion at Wester Hall, and was often with him on this business.
According to one authority, himself a revisionist, upwards of nine hundred alterations were made in the interests of metre, and the first lines of more than thirty hymns were altered.
He recorded the successive changes in its brightness from week to week, as well as the fluctuations in hue with which the alterations in lustre were accompanied.
These alterations are very small in amount, and they take place with extreme slowness, but they are in incessant progress, and their amount admits of being accurately calculated.
In other words, the moon must be approaching nearer to the earth in consequence of the alterations in the eccentricity of the earth's orbit produced by the attraction of the other planets.
He was incessantly making fresh mirrors, or trying new lenses, or combinations of lenses to act as eye-pieces, or projecting alterations in the mounting by which the telescope was supported.
But what was his surprise to observe that these alterations were not of an annually periodic character.
It was Addison's frequent practice to make verbal alterations in a preceding paper, and this Steele never did, except in rare cases, or where there was a positive mistake.
He traces to the recent alterations in the entertainments of the stage, the fact that familiar conversation among all classes was confined to two points, news and toasting, neither of which required much intelligence.
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