This would be quite as instructive and really worth doing.

Perhaps one might then see more clearly with what care he made his revisions, after what fashion he corrected, and especially what were the additions he made.
No more striking instance can be quoted than the admirable chapter about the shipwreck.

It was not always so long as Rabelais made it in the end: it was much shorter at first.

As a rule, when an author recasts some passage that he wishes to revise, he does so by rewriting the whole, or at least by interpolating passages at one stroke, so to speak.

Nothing of the kind is seen here.