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somethingssome things

Words joined or split: to day → today, it selfe → itself, aswell → as well.

Puritas changed it
458 times in 275 works
Consistency
92.9% (458 of 493)
Reach if approved
~518 places (estimated)
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Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
493 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (458 changes in 275 works, 92.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 458)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    Sixtly, his iudgement in ſomethingssome things ſo ſtrange, in ſome other things abſurd; in other erronions, if not heriticall, yet …
    With rule
    Sixtly, his iudgement in ſomethingssome things ſo ſtrange, in ſome other things abſurd; in other erronions, if not heriticall, yet …

    Richard Bernard · Plain Evidences the Church of England is Apostolical · p. 28 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … a Doue, deſcended afterwards vpon his Apoſtles in the ſimilitude of fire. As in ſomethingssome things we ſhould be meeke and patient, ſo in other things hot and earneſt: Meekneſſe …
    With rule
    … a Doue, deſcended afterwards vpon his Apoſtles in the ſimilitude of fire. As in ſomethingssome things we ſhould be meeke and patient, ſo in other things hot and earneſt: Meekneſſe …

    Nehemiah Rogers · A Strange Vineyard in Palestine · p. 48 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … a fruitfull subject, specially the writer of the booke of martyres. Onely I find somethingssome things in this seuenth persecution, which the principall purpose wherefore I haue collected this compend …
    With rule
    … a fruitfull subject, specially the writer of the booke of martyres. Onely I find somethingssome things in this seuenth persecution, which the principall purpose wherefore I haue collected this compend …

    Patrick Simson · History of the First Ten Persecutions · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … deſire and love them; ſomethingssome things we deſire but love them not, till injoyed; and ſomethingssome things we deſire, but love them not when we have gotten them.
    With rule
    … deſire and love them; ſomethingssome things we deſire but love them not, till injoyed; and ſomethingssome things we deſire, but love them not when we have gotten them.

    John Weemes · Observations Natural and Moral · p. 110 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … wouldeſt appoint Chriſt, to whom & when he should reveale his ſecrets. Wee know that ſomethingssome things have bin ſealed up unto the determined time. But if it be needfull, that …
    With rule
    … wouldeſt appoint Chriſt, to whom & when he should reveale his ſecrets. Wee know that ſomethingssome things have bin ſealed up unto the determined time. But if it be needfull, that …

    Thomas Brightman · A Revelation of the Apocalypse · p. 132 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … Hee alſo promiſed to bring me out of the towne, and to tell me ſomethingssome things, wherin if I would be ruled by him, I ſhould not be driuen to …
    With rule
    … Hee alſo promiſed to bring me out of the towne, and to tell me ſomethingssome things, wherin if I would be ruled by him, I ſhould not be driuen to …

    John Darrell · The Sinful Shameful Lying and Ridiculous Discourse of Samuel Harshnet · p. 67 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … a mystery, because we beleeue not in it what we see; but wee see somethingssome things, and beleeue other things. For that is the nature of our mysteries: which my …
    With rule
    … a mystery, because we beleeue not in it what we see; but wee see somethingssome things, and beleeue other things. For that is the nature of our mysteries: which my …

    Thomas Gataker · Discussion of the Popish Doctrine of Transubstantiation · p. 155 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … in the Maſſe-book, then all things are not taken out of it, but ſomethingssome things reſtored out of purer Antiquity, which the man of ſinne had wickedly expunged. The …
    With rule
    … in the Maſſe-book, then all things are not taken out of it, but ſomethingssome things reſtored out of purer Antiquity, which the man of ſinne had wickedly expunged. The …

    John Ball · A Friendly Trial of the Grounds Tending to Separation · p. 149 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (35)

11 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 24 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Court of the Gentiles Part 4 A41688

  • Printed
    … differ only mentally. Creation gives Being and Exiſtence unto things, Conſervation, Continuation in Being. SomethingsSome things are conſerved immediately by God, becuaſe ſubject only to him, as Spirits: That the …
    With rule
    … differ only mentally. Creation gives Being and Exiſtence unto things, Conſervation, Continuation in Being. SomethingsSome things are conſerved immediately by God, becuaſe ſubject only to him, as Spirits: That the …

    Theophilus Gale · The Court of the Gentiles Part 4 · p. 467 · Open in the reader

A History of Angels A49761

  • Printed
    … doth most perfectly, hee knowes every thing, els of which hee is the copie: SomethingsSome things they know by their owne essence, as the eye sees the light by it …
    With rule
    … doth most perfectly, hee knowes every thing, els of which hee is the copie: SomethingsSome things they know by their owne essence, as the eye sees the light by it …

    Henry Lawrence · A History of Angels · p. 29 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    SomethingsSome things the Angels know by their owne Essence, somethingssome things by intelligible species infused.
    With rule
    SomethingsSome things the Angels know by their owne Essence, somethingssome things by intelligible species infused.

    Henry Lawrence · A History of Angels · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    SomethingsSome things which looke like vertues, are but the ignorance of ill.
    With rule
    SomethingsSome things which looke like vertues, are but the ignorance of ill.

    Henry Lawrence · A History of Angels · Open in the reader

Exposition of the Laws of Moses A73378

  • Printed
    SomethingsSome things they were bound to eate the ſelfe ſame day that the things were offred …
    With rule
    SomethingsSome things they were bound to eate the ſelfe ſame day that the things were offred …

    John Weemes · Exposition of the Laws of Moses · p. 249 · Open in the reader

The Divine Right and Original of the Civil Magistrate A85884

  • Printed
    … application to individuals ariſeth much from the particular ſtate and condition of the perſon. SomethingsSome things belonging to the rich, ſomethingssome things to the poor; ſome to the marryed, ſome to …
    With rule
    … application to individuals ariſeth much from the particular ſtate and condition of the perſon. SomethingsSome things belonging to the rich, ſomethingssome things to the poor; ſome to the marryed, ſome to …

    Edward Gee · The Divine Right and Original of the Civil Magistrate · p. 85 · Open in the reader

Reply to Rutherford A88948

  • Printed
    … parcell of theſe … are written, ſaith he, to Timothy and Titus as Evangeli…ts. SomethingsSome things are written to them as Chriſtians; and finaditer & objective all is written for the …
    With rule
    … parcell of theſe … are written, ſaith he, to Timothy and Titus as Evangeli…ts. SomethingsSome things are written to them as Chriſtians; and finaditer & objective all is written for the …

    Richard Mather · Reply to Rutherford · p. 108 · Open in the reader

Truth Triumphing Over Falsehood A91309

  • Printed
    … Laicorum, tam divitum quam mediocrium & factus eſt Conventus grandis et ineſtimabilis, ſaith the Hiſtorian; SomethingsSome things were there debated, ſomethingssome things determined, ſome things adjourned, ſome things by reaſon of the …
    With rule
    … Laicorum, tam divitum quam mediocrium & factus eſt Conventus grandis et ineſtimabilis, ſaith the Hiſtorian; SomethingsSome things were there debated, ſomethingssome things determined, ſome things adjourned, ſome things by reaſon of the …

    William Prynne · Truth Triumphing Over Falsehood · p. 68 · Open in the reader

Subjection to Christ in All His Ordinances A93085

  • Printed
    … publick peſts and plagues, and cankers of that place, as Jeroboams command for Religion. SomethingsSome things are forbidden plainly, they make not for publick good, but hurt, the ſtatutes of …
    With rule
    … publick peſts and plagues, and cankers of that place, as Jeroboams command for Religion. SomethingsSome things are forbidden plainly, they make not for publick good, but hurt, the ſtatutes of …

    Thomas Shepard · Subjection to Christ in All His Ordinances · p. 128 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    Means 2. Know your diſobedience, the breadth of it. SomethingsSome things Chriſtians ſee, and pray againſt them, and then all is well; but ſee the …
    With rule
    Means 2. Know your diſobedience, the breadth of it. SomethingsSome things Chriſtians ſee, and pray againſt them, and then all is well; but ſee the …

    Thomas Shepard · Subjection to Christ in All His Ordinances · p. 151 · Open in the reader

Commentary on 2 Corinthians 4 A93252

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    … this world, man worketh by principles in him, so in the way of Christianity. SomethingsSome things are hinderances to Heaven and happinesse, as conceiptedness and self-sufficiency; Therefore the Apostle …
    With rule
    … this world, man worketh by principles in him, so in the way of Christianity. SomethingsSome things are hinderances to Heaven and happinesse, as conceiptedness and self-sufficiency; Therefore the Apostle …

    Richard Sibbes · Commentary on 2 Corinthians 4 · p. 264 · Open in the reader