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Show GREAT? MEN ABOVE RULES. Why Their Orthographic Mlstakaa Should Be Overlooked. Kmperor Slglsmund of Germany, who reigned In the fifteenth century, lu tho speech In which ho oponod tlio council of Constance uttered an expression ex-pression which Cardinal 1 mcontlnus corrected. Tho emperor .replied, "Pin-contlnus, "Pin-contlnus, however agreoablo you. may bo to others, you plcaso. us not when j ou assert that wo havo less authority ihnri tho grammarlaj Prlsclanus, Ahom ou say I hnvo artended." Napoleon Na-poleon used to oxcuso his errors In ntho'srnphy with tho baying, "A man ccupled with, public business cannot Utorjd to orthographx." Voltaire, upon ecelpt of his llrst letter la rrcnh .roio Frederick the Great, told 1 rod--rlok that ho was a better Fronch eluilar thrm I.ouls XIV, who commit-ed commit-ed many mistaken. Froderlck replied that Louis was u great monarch In mauy respects and a mistake in spell .ug could not tarnish tho brilliancy ol ids reputation. |