An arduous life of WHAT?!

[anteros_lmc]

"I despair I really do..." to quote a certain Admiral Lord Exmouth who must be spinning in his grave right now!

I recently bought a kindle for reading historic books and documents from google books and archive.org. It's not an ideal solution as the digitisation process really struggles to cope with the formatting, fonts and typesetting of historic documents and older books, so you tend to end up with garbage in amongst the text. However it does mean I can read the Gentleman's Magazine and the Naval Chronicle on the bus! Occasionally though the kindle throws up an error that makes you go WTF?!

This morning I was reading Edward Osler's The Life Of Admiral Viscount Exmouth downloaded in kindle format from archive.org, when I came across the following....

The young officer , who, like him, has devoted himself to an arduous LIFE OF vice, with nothing to rely on but his character and his sword, may derive instruction from his example and encouragement from his success.

I beg your pardon? A WHAT? An arduous life of vice?!

Referring back to the google books pdf reveals it should actually read "has devoted himself to an arduous service" but "service" is split over two pages and kindle has lost the "ser" and inserted the page heading "LIFE OF" instead.

There you have it, 250 years of untarnished reputation trashed by technology! Just as wellnodbear is off gallivanting with mylodon otherwise I suspect there would be trouble!

Comments

[sharpiefan.livejournal.com]

*is amused*

Someone needs to fic that!! :D

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

Hello stranger :D

Someone needs to fic that!!

They do. Shame I came across this after the following_sea Seven Deadly Sins challenge ;)

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

*groan* I hate bad formatting like that.

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

I suspect Sir Edward agrees with you!

[eglantine-br.livejournal.com]

Very silly. Poor EP.(Vice can be so tiring!)

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

Vice can be so tiring!
Positively arduous! Just look at Archie, poor boy is exhausted ;)

[kittycallum.livejournal.com]

I don't know whether that's hilarious or tragic! I'm going to go with hilarious.

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

Lets hope Sir Edward has a sense of humour to go with that legendary temper!

[esmerelda-t.livejournal.com]

I was going to devote myself to an arduous life of vice but it sounded too much like hard work.

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

I does sound exhausting doesn't it?! Unless of course your vice of choice is sloth. I don't think a life of sloth would be too arduous!

[nodbear.livejournal.com]

Well indeed ! It is true that he wrote to a friend about himself " God has been merciful to a wretched sinner I have been a wicked fellow...'

but an arduous life of vice - I think not! such vices as were his - and going back to the 7 deadlies one might say wrath and greed at least at some points in his life were well balanced and likely outweighed by as deep a generosity and sense of justice

and both as saint and sinner he would
have liked to make look as effortless as possible -

in the icon Sir Edward is seen passing judgement on the inventors of e book readers

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

and both as saint and sinner he would have liked to make look as effortless as possible -
Ha! Yes, good point!

Sir Edward is seen passing judgement on the inventors of e book readers
Well in the case of the kindle that'll be Amazon. A name familiar to Sir Edward....

[eglantine-br.livejournal.com]

Poor good man. I am sad that he thought he was wicked. From what little I know, he tried to be as good as he could. That is all anyone can do. I hope he really didn't judge himself too harshly.