Siyar al-mutaʾakhkhirin 42.27.5

42.27.5

He made the proof over to his apprentice, who all this while had given evident signs of approbation to his master by his smiles, cast of features, and shrugging up of the shoulders — and the next morning my excellency was saluted with full two hundred, and by this time had considerably affected his health. Ex uno disce omnes. What to think of the single Latin verse? Quod tibi vis, jubeas aliis, haec Summula legis. Finding it very ill printed, I wrote it in square letters, so that no mistake could be committed; and yet you shall find B. 3, P. 415, line 3, hac summula legis, everywhere. From these few specimens, Sir, you may easily form to yourself an idea of the enormous difficulties and endless disgusts I had to surmount, in order to go through so very voluminous a work. Had I known then how to manage with printers, that is, how to excite their cupidity, by concerning them in the undertaking, and above all, how to make the concern their own, the work would have been printed less ill at least, and full six months sooner. Remains, Sir, the third article of your proposal: your proposing to fill up a new subscription, and your animadverting to the sum of eleven thousand Rupees, which M. Gladwin's Vocabulary has produced, and to the scanty reception which my own work has met with from the public. The comparison is very far from being fair; and I hope, you shall agree in opinion with me, as soon as you shall have attended to a few considerations.