It cannot be argued here that our text of the Epistle has suffered from later interpolation, and therefore, I repeat, it is so much the more probable that Marcion took from the text of the Gospel than that a later editor added to it.

There were ten Sheets of it, which might have been reduced to two, had there not been those abominable Interpolations I have before mentioned.

But it is in reality the first edition which lacks the episode, and Mr. G.A. Aitken, Defoe's latest editor, doubts Southerne's interference altogether and considers Susannah's curiosity an alien interpolation.

Again, in the sacre rappresentazioni, the burlesque interpolations from actual life, which with us aided the genesis of the interlude, and through it of the romantic comedy, are as a rule so conspicuously absent that the rustic farce with which one nativity play opens can only be regarded as a direct and conscious imitation from the French.

When a Minister is in agreement with the House on the general principles of policy, then indeed there rests on them the obligation not to embarrass the Government by constant interpolation with regard to each diplomatic step; self-restraint must be exercised, confidence shewn.

This clause has met with the usual fate of parenthetic statements which do not quite fall in with preconceived opinions, and is dismissed as a 'manifest interpolation,' a gloss having crept into the text from the margin.

Some of them are mere interpolations introduced on the flimsiest of excuses, which arrest the progress of the main narrativei.e., the traveland give the author an opportunity to use up some spare material which he does not know what to do with.

Critically speaking, the most prominent fault in the book is the occasional interpolation of matter not connected directly with its argument.

This unauthorised interpolation may have had its share in postponing the prohibition of the book by the Church of Rome.

Whether Milton has been guilty of such undramatic interpolations, such lapses from the one end of art, may be left to the individual judgement of each reader to determine; for my own part I cannot conceive that any doubt should exist.

That unhappy interpolation ruined all.

It was not until rationalism arose, and rejected plain and obvious declarations of Scripture, as inconsistent with reason, as interpolations, as uninspired, that the authority of the Scriptures was weakened; and these rationalistsand the land of Luther became full of themhave gone infinitely beyond the Catholics in undermining the Bible.

The Tories of all ages and countries content themselves and alarm their neighbors by an adroit interpolation of this formula in their speech.