\ A collection. of errors of the press of the malignant type would be amongst the curiosities of literature. Bayle records several curious specimens. In the loyal Courier of former days ifc appears that his Majesty George IV. had a fifc* ; 6f the gout at Brighton. We have seen advertised a sermon, by a celebrated divine, on the Immorality of the Soul, and also the Lies of the Poets. Lies is indeed more dangerous, a single letter more or^less making a lie. Gory, too, is liable to the same mischance, the dropping of the liquid making it. all gory. What is treason, asked a wag, but reason to. a t ? which tan accident of the press may displace with the most awkward effect. Imagine an historical character .impea cu ed for reasonable practices. ,
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume II, Issue 230, 1 October 1867, Page 2
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