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QotD

posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:26am on 2006-11-13 under ,

"What country can preserve it's [sic] liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? let them take arms. the remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon & pacify them. what signify a few lives lost in a century or two? the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants. it is it's natural manure." -- Thomas Jefferson, 1787-11-13

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QotD Typo Alert

posted by [identity profile] dmk.livejournal.com at 01:48pm on 2006-11-13
You have a "here comes an S!" apostrophe in the fifth word.
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Re: QotD Typo Alert

posted by [identity profile] writerjanice.livejournal.com at 08:28pm on 2006-11-13
But is it:

1. A typo made in copying the original quote,

2. A typo made by Jefferson in 1787,

3. just the way apostrophes were used in the 18th century?

Janice
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Re: QotD Typo Alert

posted by [identity profile] dmk.livejournal.com at 08:39pm on 2006-11-13
Good points. If it were not a Glenn typo, though, I would have expected him to include a note to that effect.
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Re: QotD Typo Alert

posted by [identity profile] kuritzky.livejournal.com at 12:25am on 2006-11-14
It's in the original, 7th line from the bottom.
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Re: QotD Typo Alert

posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 07:31pm on 2006-11-14
You're right, I should have (and had intended to) make such an annotation. I'll edit the entry.
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Re: QotD Typo Alert

posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 07:32pm on 2006-11-14
#2 would have to be a "grapho", since he didn't type or typeset it ... Sorry, feeling pedantic this afternoon -- hope it comes out as cute as it sounded in my head.
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posted by [identity profile] klingonlandlady.livejournal.com at 03:14pm on 2006-11-13
That's a good one! I have heard it quoted more often over the past year.
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