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Thanks for the ping, I’m tempted to say we ought to Network our sites together, you’d save me some work all this great stuff you have up here already.
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That Franklin quote is one of my favorites!
Steve
By: Steve Farrell on November 10, 2009
at 1:39 am
Hi, I have questions about the interpretation of your formatting. I’m reading Noah Webster’s essay, “On the Education of Youth in America”. In section 2 at
http://democraticthinker.wordpress.com/2010/06/06/websters-american-education%E2%80%94%C2%A7-2/
I notice what appears to be a comment, in black text with a leading asterisk:
*This remark is confined solely to its construction; in point of orthography, our language is intolerably irregular.
Further down on the same page is a longer, similarly formatted comment beginning
* In our colleges and universities, students read some of the ancient Poets and Orators; but the Historians, …
followed by a quotation in the “normal{ font.
Is the text in black commentary you have added, or part of the original? And is the indented quotation also part of the original?
Thank you kindly,
Elchanan
By: Elchanan on November 16, 2010
at 2:37 pm
This series is an HTML copy of the original pamphlet. The notes in the smaller black font appear in the original as a footnote at the bottom of the page—but I put them in following the notated paragraph since the HTML copy does not follow the page breaks of the original. The black text section identifiers in the left margin are from the original Table of Contents.
D.T.
The quotation is in the original.
By: Democratic Thinker on November 16, 2010
at 3:52 pm
I see you have placed some of my posts in your side bar. I want to thank you for that.
I.P. at Liberty’s Spirit
By: Independent Patriot/Elise on April 16, 2011
at 5:28 pm