Siyar al-mutaʾakhkhirin 42.27.2

42.27.2

For instance, to what purpose is it for me to have written in my manuscript, he was preposed to that business. A printer, (but this printer is neither Cooper nor Bruce, who are both scholars) a printer will dash preposed and print proposed ; and when you tell him that those two words are quite different, and that the latter etymologically signifies, brought forward, or mentioned, whereas the other signifies, put over or put in office, the man will resolutely answer you, that preposed may be English, but not English of Europe, only English of Bengal. Look at the page 414, line 27, and page 422, line 2, of the third volume. What for to have written in the original, obsolete ? The apprentice takes it to be absolute. You correct. He does not mind it, or mistakes it again ; and the next morning you receive 200 sheets, all saddled with an absolute. Page 355, line 8, Volume 3. What for to have originally written surrendered it immediately, page 185, line 11, Volume 3 ? and what for to have corrected it in the proof ? The 200 sheets bear it surrounded immediately. What for to have written very legibly alambicated, and to have corrected at two different times. The printer writes you that the word is not English, and that it ought to be amplificated. He promises to print as you direct, and yet leaves the proof to the apprentice, who carelessly makes it over to another, who, uninformed of the dispute, sends you 200 sheets all with an amplificated. Volume 3, page 270, line 43.