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authorRobert Tonsing <rt.dev@fastmail.com>2025-04-06 08:41:24 -0500
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2025-04-06 08:41:24 -0500
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Merge pull request #1 from Chairzard/Typo-CorrectionsHEADmain
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@@ -3707,7 +3707,7 @@ the dwarf was pardoned at my desire, because I had given the provocation.
<p>
Another day, Glumdalclitch left me on a smooth grass-plot to divert myself,
while she walked at some distance with her governess. In the meantime, there
-suddenly fell such a violent shower of hail, that I was immediately by the
+suddenly fell such a violent shower of hail, that I was immediately, by the
force of it, struck to the ground: and when I was down, the hailstones gave me
such cruel bangs all over the body, as if I had been pelted with tennis-balls;
however, I made a shift to creep on all fours, and shelter myself, by lying
@@ -6438,7 +6438,7 @@ voyage to Glubbdubdrib. His reception by the governor.
</p>
<p>
-The continent, of which this kingdom is apart, extends itself, as I have reason
+The continent, of which this kingdom is a part, extends itself, as I have reason
to believe, eastward, to that unknown tract of America westward of California;
and north, to the Pacific Ocean, which is not above a hundred and fifty miles
from Lagado; where there is a good port, and much commerce with the great
@@ -6951,7 +6951,7 @@ deep blue: at five and forty it grew coal black, and as large as an English
shilling; but never admitted any further alteration.&rdquo; He said,
&ldquo;these births were so rare, that he did not believe there could be above
eleven hundred struldbrugs, of both sexes, in the whole kingdom; of which he
-computed about fifty in the metropolis, and, among the rest, a young girl born;
+computed about fifty in the metropolis, and, among the rest, a young girl born
about three years ago: that these productions were not peculiar to any family,
but a mere effect of chance; and the children of the <i>struldbrugs</i>
themselves were equally mortal with the rest of the people.&rdquo;
@@ -9474,7 +9474,7 @@ was no interruption, tediousness, heat, or difference of sentiments. They have
a notion, that when people are met together, a short silence does much improve
conversation: this I found to be true; for during those little intermissions of
talk, new ideas would arise in their minds, which very much enlivened the
-discourse. Their subjects are, generally on friendship and benevolence, on
+discourse. Their subjects are generally on friendship and benevolence, on
order and economy; sometimes upon the visible operations of nature, or ancient
traditions; upon the bounds and limits of virtue; upon the unerring rules of
reason, or upon some determinations to be taken at the next great assembly: and
@@ -9609,7 +9609,7 @@ sufficient, and I knew he had a tenderness for me.&rdquo;
<p>
In his company, my first business was to go to that part of the coast where my
rebellious crew had ordered me to be set on shore. I got upon a height, and
-looking on every side into the sea; fancied I saw a small island toward the
+looking on every side into the sea, fancied I saw a small island toward the
north-east. I took out my pocket glass, and could then clearly distinguish it
above five leagues off, as I computed; but it appeared to the sorrel nag to be
only a blue cloud: for as he had no conception of any country beside his own,