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ensuing twenty-seven times it is ejected; fourteen times next follow. is
bless. with u; and lastly No. 81 is written with five letters, and No. 82
with six; while in every one of them Mr. Dean's copy of Short Story
agrees. More striking is this conformity, because apparently earlier
copies vary much in such petty particulars. The solitary, abnormal E.
in Mr. Dean's copy, Error 65, changes places with Col. Aspinwall's E.
in Error 72, and so no complaint of partiality can arise.
Still, it may be said the identity of Dean's "Short Story" with
Coll. "Antinomians and Familists" being established, nothing is yet
clearly shown to prove, wh. first came from the press, but only that,
whichever was first, the other follow. very soon, perhaps in few hrs. or
even minutes. Now by comparing with Dean's copy (that has the
preface) that of Aspinwall (wh. is equally complete) it may easily be
seen that A's. is several hours, or even days, earlier in its issue. But
bef. taking up the preface, where the diversity is greater, let the curious
student look at two or three small points in the body of the work, wh. is
identical in substance, and seeming. in letter also, with the Coll. tract
that wants the preface. On p. 1 in the Confutat. 4 and 5, the citation
from the prophet Isaiah viii. 20, in A's. copy writ. Eas, in D's. and Coll.
copies becomes Esay; p. 2, under Error 8, Corinth. in A's. copy, is properly
shortened inthe otehr two to Cor.---p. 3, line 5, true (in the brackets)
it changed from Italic, as it is in A's. copy, into Roman letters to
conform with other Roman letters in the same passage of the other
copies; p. 21, in the blunder of date of the term of Court (wh. could
not have been mistak. by Gov. Winthrop) October in A's. copy is abbrev.
in the others to Octob. Weld in London wrote the wrong mo. P. 33 in
two places, A's copy has Hutchinson, but in seventeen other places the
name is Hutchison, without n in sec. syl. while the other copies give the
name every time without that letter, so preserving uniformity betw. spell
and sound; p. 35, the rule "I permit not a Woman to teach," in A's.
copy is print. in the Italic; in the other two, in Roman character, conformably
to the rest of the page, and the cap. W. of A. is reduced in these
to a small letter; and other examples abundantly serve to prove, that
A's. was the earlier impression, correct. by the compositor in later ones.
The texture of the paper in the different copies seems different, Aspinwall's
being manifest. coarser. The top of Aspinwall's p. 7 is printed
9, and 10 is used for 8, 11 for 9, and so on, until, by giv. 15 and 16
twice, his copy agrees with others, in all the later pages; but the other
copies throughout have a military accuracy of count. A correct. copy
may certain. well seem later than one less correct, and instances enough
may be seen in that of Col. A. having double e, where Mr. Deane's has
single e, as in the passage on p. 62, so oft. refer. to, the latter reads "she
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