It is not he who is responsible for the perplexity he occasions me, but the language and the imperfect customs amidst which he wrote.
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In like manner the reduplication of syllables, words, clauses, sentences, is consistent with entire sincerity of purpose on the part of the copyist.
This inaccuracy is often to be deplored; inasmuch as a reduplicated syllable often really affects the sense.

But for the most part nothing worse ensues than that the page is disfigured with errata.
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So, on the other hand,--the occasional omission of words, whether few or many,--especially that passing from one line to the corresponding place in a subsequent line, which generally results from the proximity of a similar ending,--is a purely venial offence.

It is an evidence of carelessness, but it proves nothing worse.
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