Welcome to Project Gutenberg's edition of John Marshall by James Bradley Thayer from the Riverside Biographical Series. Below is a list of emendations to the text. This version of the book was checked with an updated version by the same publisher and author, with the same stated year of publication. There were six changes in the updated book. We made the changes that appeared to correct typos. The changes in the updated version of the book that changed the meaning of the sentence are listed here, but we did not change the text. We also made one emendation (on Page 25), where quoted text was missing the left-handed double quote.
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Detailed Notes:
On page 12, the order of 'in them' and 'that he surpassed' was juxtaposed
in the updated version, which reads like so:
"It was said that he surpassed in them any man in the army;"
In footnote [7], the volume of the Mass. Hist. Soc. reference was changed in the updated version to xiv.
On page 25, the left handed double quote was missing from the quote
attributed to Bishop Meade. This quote was missing in both versions
of the book that we consulted. We made a best-guess as to where
the author intended to begin the quote from Meade. See the paragraph
on page 25 ending with the following clause:
“the most fertile part of Virginia.”
On page 34, a period replaced the colon in the updated version.
We did not change the original text, which reads:
Jefferson wrote to Marshall the following note:
On page 35, 'Genl. Marshall' replaced 'Genl-Marshall' in the text. We also changed the text of the original book, because a) the original words were a typo, and b) retaining the typo is a distraction, because c) the spelling of 'Genl. Marshall' appears several lines later in the text.
On page 72, has 'settled by' replaced 'presented to' in an updated
version of the following sentence:
But not until 1803, early in Marshall’s time,
was the point judicially presented to the Supreme Court.
On page 105, 'I shall speak' replaced 'I have spoken.' in an updated version of the text. We retained the original mistake by the author, but placed a link to the relevant information in the text.