Benjamin Franklin's story

Emendations

Dogood 5 Emendations:


Readers (readers)
Letter (letter)
Home (home)
Vices and Folley (satire)
Sex (sex)
Speculation (speculation)
Yours (yours)
I am (I’m)
Women (women)
Men (men)
Have not (haven’t)
Measure (measure)
Cause (cause)
Design (design)
Our’s (ours. No apostrophe.)
Cultivation (cultivation)
Resentments (resentments)
Kindness (kindness)
Field (field)
Task (task)
Male Enormities (male enormities)
Answer’d (answered)
Matter (matter)
Work (work)
Forc’d (forced)
Allowance (allowance)
Suppose (suppose)
Fault (fault)
Supported in Affluence, Ease, and Pleasure (supported in affluence, ease, and pleasure)
Bread by the sweat of his own brows (bread by the sweat of his own brows)
Labour (labor)
Livelihood (livelihood)
Subject (subject)
Customs (customs)
Impertinence (impertinence)
Subject in Hand (subject in hand)
Fault wholly on the Men, for not allowing Women the Advantages of Education (fault wholly on the men, for not allowing women the advantages of education)
Heighth (Height)
Priviledge (privilege)
Conversible (conversable)
Hindred (hinder)
Female Ignorance and Folly (female ignorance and folly)
Correspondent (correspondent)
Intolerable (intolerable)
The Sex every Day with Folly and Impertinence (the sex every day with folly and impertinence)
Tyranniz’d (tyrannized)
Feet (feet)
Praises (praises)
Perswaded (persuaded)
 
N.B Mrs. Dogood has lately left her Seat in the Country, and come to Boston, where she intends to tarry for the Summer Season, in order to compleat her Observations of the present reigning Vices of the Town (Mrs. Dogood has lately left her seat in the country, and come to Boston, where she intends to tarry for the summer season, in order to complete her observations of the present reigning vices of the town)
 
 
Dogood 9 Emendations
 
Time (time)
Question (question)
Thoughts (thoughts)
Nature (nature)
Hypocrite (hypocrite)
Publick (public)
Savoury (savory)
Expressions (expressions)
Nothing (nothing)
Men (men)
Country (country)
Expos’d (exposed)
Publick (public)
Publick (public)
Religion (religion)
‘tis (it is)
tho’ (though)
publick (public)
colour (color)
Clergy (clergy)
Danger (danger)
Deciv’d (deceived)
Assistance (assistance)
Observation (observation)
Stuff’d (stuffed)
Deceas’d (deceased)
Honourably (honorably)
Subject (subject)
Indignation (indignation)
Love (love)
Paragraph (paragraph)
Carry’d (carried)
Readers (readers)
Publick (public)
Accomplices (accomplices)
Instruments (instruments)
Favourites (favorites)
Success (success)
Robbers (robbers)
Historians (historians)
ODE MAKERS (ode makers)
Directors (directors)
Task (task)
Country (country)
Clergyman (clergyman)
Road (road)
Actions (actions)
Good (good)
Professions (professions)
Men (men)
Conduct (conduct)
Effects (effects)
Proof (proof)
Thorough Honesty (thorough honesty)
Proof (proof)
Proof(proof)
Mankind (mankind)
Unhappy (unhappy)
 
 
Dogood 13 Emendations:
 
Satisfactions (satisfactions)
Labour (labor)
Fix’d (fixed)
Pleas’d (pleased)
Company (company)
Receiv’d (received)
Satisfaction (satisfaction)
Indulg’d (indulged)
Rally’d (rallied)
Twenty in Number (twenty in number)
Tho’ (though)
Render’d (rendered)
Discourse (discourse)
Publication (publication)
Clear’d (cleared)
Tho’ (though)
Continu;d (continued)
Endeavouring (endeavor)
Reformation (reformation)
Link’d (linked)
Occasion’d (occasionally?)
Happn’d (happened)
Call’d (called)
Founder’d (founder)
Pass’d (passed)
Batchelors (bachelors)
Pace (pace)
Pace (pace)
Canes (canes)
Cheeks (cheeks)
Fatigu’d (fatigued)
Oblig’d (obligated)
Ask’d (asked)
Answer’d (answered)
Employ’d (employed)
 
 
Silence Dogood 14 Emendations
 
Cause (cause)
Opinion (opinion)
Extreams (extreme)
Fill’d (filled)
Uncharitables (uncharitables)
Embrac’d (embraced)
Establishe’d (established)
Religion (religion)
Deny’d (denied)
Power of Administring (power of administering )
Endeavour (endeavor)
Religion (religion)
Deny’d (denied)
That (that)
Ideots (idiots)
Scheme of Belief (scheme of belief)
The Reason (the reason)
Believer (believer)
Precedency (precedency)
Man (man)
Ethicks (ethics)
Tho’ (though)
Words (words)
Term (term)
Language (language)
Explanation (explanation)
Neighbour (neighbor)
Happen’d (happened)
Handle (handle)
Praeposscssion
Handle (handle)
Purposes (purposes)
Unskillfully (unskillfully)
Exstreamly (extremely)
Signification (signification)
 
 
The Way To Wealth Emendations
Labour (labor)
Dost thou (do you)
Riseth (rise)
Honour (honor)
Increaseth (increase)
To-day (today)
Farther (farther)
To-morrow (tomorrow)
To-day (today)
Methinks (I think)
Thee (you)
Labour (labor)
Oft-removed (often removed)
Groat (groat)
Mickle (mickle, a large amount)
Expences (expenses)
Practised (practiced)
Almanack (almanac)
Pride (pride)
Plenty (plenty)
Gaol (goal)
‘tis (it is)
counseled (consoled)
practised (practiced)
Almanacks (almanac)
Thine (yours)