Front matter
William Johnston translation
Transcriber’s Note:
Footnotes were renumbered sequentially and were moved to the end of the book. Obvious printing errors, such as backwards, upside down, or partially printed letters and punctuation, were corrected. Final stops missing at the end of sentences and abbreviations were added. Duplicate or missing letters at line endings were removed or added, as appropriate.
Words have inconsistent spelling, hyphenation, and use of diacriticals. These were not changed unless indicated below. Dialect, obsolete and alternative spellings were not changed. Long dashes were converted to elipses in Book 2, chapter 7.
A link to the audio file was added for music. The music file is the music transcriber's interpretation of the printed notation and is placed in the public domain. At the time of this writing, music file links will not work in mobile e-book formats like epub or Kindle/mobi. Users who are reading the e-book in one of these formats can listen to the music or download the music file in the HTML version. Lyrics to the musical score are presented as poetry following the illustration of the music.
The following were changed:
“1738” to “1778” ... a second time in 1778....
“emploped” to “employed”
“merchanchise” to “merchandise”
“ex-jesuist” to “ex-jesuit”
“contorsions” to contortions
“obstables” to obstacles
Pius “XVI” changed to Pius “VI”
“too” to “two” ... two days in arrest ...
“to” to “too” ... or see too clearly ...
“consideraby” to “considerably” ... are considerably changed ...
“di” to “die” ... die Zigeuner ...
“engaving” to “engraving” ... an engraving of which ...
“apparations” to “apparitions” ... In these apparitions ...
“concentred” to “concentrated”
“Phenicians” to “Phoenicians”
“too” to “two” .. yields two crops every year ...
“tranformed” to “transformed” ... transformed himself ...