This version of the text cannot represent certain typographical effects. Italics are delimited with the ‘_’ character as _italic_. The frequent appearance of blackletter font is noted here by enclosing the text in ‘~’ as ‘~blackletter text~’. Superscripted characters are preceded by ‘^’. Page headers signalled changes of topic, and have been retained as paragraph descriptions (‘sidenotes’). Where the headers persist across multiple pages, they were removed. On occasion, the headers on facing pages are interleaved during an extended discussion of a topic. Only the first of each were retained.…
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