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The editor of D. has emended this passage.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 40 of 55 1690-1691 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Blair, Emma Helen

Let us now look at some of the passages which Wordsworth has emended, not by taking away from the words of his book, but by adding to them.

From The Galaxy Vol. XXIII?March, 1877.?No. 3 by Various

He has emended by making those changes which ‘seemed most necessary or most probable.’

From The Translations of Beowulf A Critical Bibliography by Tinker, Chauncey Brewster

The transcript has δικαιος and τεθαψεν; for which Hermann has emended as above.

From The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 1 of 2 by Müller, Karl Otfried

B. This form might perhaps be read; F has emended it out, and no other manuscript has it.

From A Sixth-Century Fragment of the Letters of Pliny the Younger A Study of Six Leaves of an Uncial Manuscript Preserved in the Pierpont Morgan Library New York by Lowe, E. A. (Elias Avery)