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Transcriber’s Note
Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed. Accent marks in non-English words were neither added or removed.
Simple typographical errors were corrected; occasional unpaired quotation marks retained.
Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained.
Footnotes originally were at the bottoms of pages; in this eBook, they have been collected and placed just before the Index.
Index not checked for proper alphabetization or correct page references.
Page 41: “Ignatius Loyala” and “Duchess of Marborough” were printed that way.
Page 91: Closing single-quotation mark added after “‘religious faith”.
Page 112: Closing quotation mark removed after “withhold” in the quotation beginning “withhold his support from”.
Page 135: Closing quotation mark added after “monarchy of England,”.
Page 210: Closing quotation mark added after “vindicate the honour of the country.”
Page 251: Closing quotation mark removed after “their future conduct.”
Page 286: “portrayed in Venetia that in any” was printed that way.
Page 292: Closing quotation mark added after “genius and resources of society.”.
Page 317: Closing quotation mark removed after “it was necessary to acquire them.”
Footnote 38, originally on pages 41–42: opening quotation mark added just before “Disraeli’s brilliant philippics”.
Footnote 144, originally on page 270: the quotation marks appeared as shown here.