Literary Blunders by Henry Benjamin Wheatley
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page 87 of 211 (41%)
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The list of errata in Joseph Glanvill's _Essays on several important subjects in Philosophy and Religion_ (1676) is prefixed by this note:-- ``The Reader is desired to take notice of the following Errours of the Press, some of which are so near in sound, to the words of the author, that they may easily be mistaken for his.'' The next two books to be mentioned were published in the same year--1679. The noble author referred to in the first is that Roger Palmer who had the dishonour of being the husband of Charles II.'s notorious mistress, the Countess of Castlemaine. Fortunately for the Earl she no longer bore his name, as she was created Duchess of Cleveland in 1670. Professor De Morgan was inclined to doubt Lord Castlemaine's authorship, but the following |
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