The Wise and Ingenious Companion, French and English;: or, A Collection of the Wit of the Illustrious Persons, Both Ancient and ModernBoyer, Abel
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The Wise and Ingenious Companion, French and English;: or, A Collection of the Wit of the Illustrious Persons, Both Ancient and Modern
Boyer, Abel
Anecdotes; Wit and humor
This ebook cannot retain the verso/recto arrangement. In this
edition, the English text is generally aligned to the left margin
while French text is indented four spaces right. Paragraphs of
French text have been moved from their original locations to follow
directly the corresponding paragraphs of English text. Paragraphs
originally broken at page _n_ and continued on page _n+2_ are
reunited.
Page vii. The phrase “Proper, and and the” was changed to “Proper,
and the”.
Page 11 ¶16. Changed “borc” to “bore”.
Page 20 ¶26. In “j’ay défait Hannibal” (as shown in this
transcription), the acute accent over the e looked more like “ẻ”
(U+1ebb latin small letter e with hook above) in the original print.
Page 34 ¶51. “marié ees Mots” to “marié ces Mots”.
Page 35 ¶57. “aswered” to “answered”.
Page 65 ¶119. “Clock is too Cold” to “Cloak is too Cold”.
Page 86 ¶161. Paragraph heading changed from 162 to 161.
Page 88 ¶165. Paragraph heading changed from 164 to 165.
Page 98 ¶184. “sou utilité” to “son utilité”.
Page 130 ¶7. “Grand d’_Espapne_” to “Grand d’_Espagne_”.
Page 132 ¶11. “Epitapnes” to “Epitaphes”.
Page 136 ¶21. “fott” to “fort”.
Page 138 ¶23. “blesla” to “blessa”.
Page 143 ¶35; “Humlity” to “Humility”.
Page 148 ¶41; “demeurent au dessous” to “demeurent au dessus”.
Page 152 ¶51; “uomment” to “nomment”.
Page 152 ¶54; “lni” to “lui”.
Page 155 ¶60; “Archqishop” to “Archbishop”.
Page 161 ¶71; “difficujty” to “difficulty”.
Page 165 ¶75; “qu’ll desiroit” to “qu’il desiroit”.
Page 170 ¶87; “chacum” to “chacun”.
Page 200 ¶135; “l’ Fglise” to “l’ Eglise”.
Page 202 ¶136; “Contumes” to “Coutumes”.
Page 223 ¶154; “Ladi-” to “Ladiship”.
Page 230 ¶156; “nous pouvous” to “nous pouvons”.
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