[1] The Academy has been good enough to insert the second "is" on its
own account, by way of proving the truth of Longinus' theory (_V. De
Sublimitate_: chap. 39, _ad fin._), that the addition or subtraction
of a single syllable is sufficient to destroy the whole force of a
sentence. (P. Longinus: _De Sublimitate Libellus_; edit. Joannes
Vablen, Bonnae, 1887.)--(_Translator_)
[2] I suppose this is the meaning of _contra esse
confiteri_.--(_Translator_.)
End of Project Gutenberg's The Basis of Morality, by Arthur Schopenhauer