Transcriber’s Note:
This book was written in a period when many words had not become standardized in their spelling. Words may have multiple spelling variations or inconsistent hyphenation in the text. These have been left unchanged unless indicated below.
Footnotes were renumbered sequentially and were moved to the end of each Part. Several footnotes have multiple anchors. Links from footnotes refer to the first instance. Subsequent anchors are identified with an “a” following the anchor number.
Obvious printing errors, such as backwards, upside down, unprinted, or partially printed letters, were corrected. Final stops missing at the end of sentences and abbreviations were added.
The following items were changed:
Added missing accents to words in Italian in the poem preceding the Preface.
Added missing word: Let them once get [in] touch.
Spelling corrections:
- They must be bept [kept]
- in consequences from certain premisses [premises]
- In this connecton [connection]
- but thus [this] much is evident
- at the royal vill [villa]