 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1830 - 368 pages
...edition, he very readily undertook a second, " for to satisfy the author," (as he says himself,) " whereas tofore by ignorance he had erred in hurting and difFaming his book." His whole account of this matter, in the Preface to this second Edition, is so clear and ingenuous,... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1830 - 364 pages
...edition, he very readily undertook a second, " for to satisfy the author," (as he says himself,) " whereas tofore by ignorance he had erred in hurting and diffaming his book." His whole account of this matter, in the Preface to this second Edition, is so clear and ingenuous,... | |
 | Lives - 1833 - 588 pages
...possibly have met with." As soon, however, as he found out these imperfections and errors, he began a second edition " for to satisfy the author, whereas tofore, by ignorance, I had erred in hurting and defamying his boke." Caxton's extreme and conscientious desire to fulfil... | |
 | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - Biography - 1833 - 606 pages
...possibly have met with." As soon, however, as he found out these imperfections and errors, he began a second edition " for to satisfy the author, whereas tofore, by ignorance, I had erred in hurting and defamying his boke." Caxton's extreme and conscientious desire to fulfil... | |
 | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - Biography - 1833 - 584 pages
...possibly have met with." As soon, however, as he found out these imperfections and errors, he began a second edition " for to satisfy the author, whereas tofore, by ignorance, I had erred in hurting and defamying his boke." Caxton's extreme and conscientious desire to fulfil... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1847 - 362 pages
...edition, he very readily undertook a second, ' for to satisfy the author,' (as he says himself,) ' whereas tofore by ignorance he had erred in hurting and diffaming his book.' His whole account of this matter, in the preface to this second edition, is so clear and ingenuous,... | |
 | Percy Society - English literature - 1847 - 360 pages
...edition, he very readily undertook a second, ' for to satisfy the author,' (as he says himself,) ' whereas tofore by ignorance he had erred in hurting and diffaming his book.' His whole account of this matter, in the preface to this second edition, is so clear and ingenuous,... | |
 | Maximilian Schele de Vere - Comparative linguistics - 1853 - 448 pages
...the Canterbury Tales. When they were published, he found he had CAXTON AND THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. 148 chosen the very worst MS. existing, and at once undertook...of their kind ; and of his labors in the good cause lie says modestly and touch ingly at the end of his work, " Thus end I this book, and for as moche... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages - 1853 - 248 pages
...his edition, he very readily undertook a second, ' for to satisfy the author' (as he says himself), ' whereas tofore by ignorance he had erred in hurting and diffaming his book." His whole account of this matter, in the preface to this second edition, is so clear and ingenuous,... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1860 - 384 pages
...Edition, he very readily undertook a second, ' for to satisfy the Author,' (as he says himself,) ' whereas tofore by ignorance he had erred in hurting and diffaming his book.' His whole account of this matter, in the Preface to this second Edition, is so clear and ingenuous,... | |
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It is still more to the honour of Caxton, that when he was informed of the imperfections of his edition, he very readily undertook a second, ' for to satisfy the author,' (as he says himself,) ' whereas tofore by ignorance he had erred in hurting and... 
