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fashion, with Ivague loud, tumultuous wonder, speed/
Aily subsiding into endure and neglect, till his early

and most mornful death again awakened an enthy, even#/-
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It is true, the days have long since elapsed. and
the very continuance of this clamour proves that
Kurns was no vulgar wonder Accordingly. He has out, see
x/ opme to rest more more exclusively on his own
xdiftrinsic merits, and may now be wellnigh shorn of
that casual radiance he appears not only as a true
English poet, but as one of the pet considerable
spBritish men of the 18th century Let it not be ob
jected that he did little. He did very much, if we
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that he had his very materials to discover. fore-tite
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wemay almost say that with his own hands he had to
construct the tools for fashioning it. For he found
respace himself in deepest curity withou
without help instruction, without model; or with model
only of the meanest sort. An educated man stands, as
it were, in the midst of a boundless arsenal and møg.
azine, Alled with all the weapon and engines which
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may remove mountains; but no dwarf will has them

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hurls them abroad with hie arms.

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Line 19. Transpose words in order numbered; bring this line and line above to margin. Change marked letter to cap W; change marked word to word on margin.

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Line 25. Respace marked words. Insert obs as marked; change marked dash to comma; align final letter of this and preceding and following line.

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Line 29. Set fi as a logotype; change broken letter. Bring s to left, inserting space after it; change h to n. Line 30. Change n to m; transpose ringed characters. Change 2 to s.

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MARKS USED IN PROOF-READING

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Take out; delete. This character is variously made, these forms being common. Space; more space;-often used in conjunction with the caret.

Push down;-designating a space or quad which shows black.

Turn inverted letter or character so as to show correct.

Let the matter stand; do not change;-stet is placed in the margin.

Transpose letters, characters, leads, lines or other matter indicated.

Bring to left or right, toward face of bracket;-if with center, bring to center. Indent line one em of type of its own

measure.

Take out broken, worn or disfigured letter
or character.
Insert period;-often called "proof-reader's

period," used in writing for distinctness. Close up letters, parts of words or other open space.

Bring matter up or down so as to present a straight line or lines.

Bring matter to right or left so as to make margin even.

Bring matter up or down, whichever way

face of bracket is turned.

Letter or character indicated

is "wrong

font"; supply one of right font. Abbreviation for italic; change to italic. The abbreviation for roman is rom. Change indicated letter, word or other matter to lower case.

Change to italic, small capitals and capitals respectively, denoted by number of lines. Indent so as to make paragraph; begin new paragraph.

Set as a logotype instead of in two or more letters.

GEOGRAPHICAL TABLES

Population of Incorporated Places; Census of 1900
One Hundred Largest Cities

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