Unassailable certainly is the thing that gives a
newspaper the firmest and most valuable reputation.
I may be wrong (I'm not a native English speaker), but I suspect the
sentence in this form lacks a proper subject. I'd think it should be
"unassailable certainty" (with a "t"), but I'm unfamiliar with the proper ways of
validating it. (After all, this isn't just some "random text on
the internet", but a published work of literature.) This
Project Guthenberg edition uses "Unassailable certainly"
(end of third paragraph under the linked image), but this
text by the University of Virginia uses "Unassailable certainty".
Could it indeed be a typo, or is it a valid form I'm not recognizing?
What is the acceptable way of finding out?
acabal
commented
9 months ago
In chapter XLII there is this sentence:
I may be wrong (I'm not a native English speaker), but I suspect the sentence in this form lacks a proper subject. I'd think it should be "unassailable certainty" (with a "t"), but I'm unfamiliar with the proper ways of validating it. (After all, this isn't just some "random text on the internet", but a published work of literature.) This Project Guthenberg edition uses "Unassailable certainly" (end of third paragraph under the linked image), but this text by the University of Virginia uses "Unassailable certainty".
Could it indeed be a typo, or is it a valid form I'm not recognizing? What is the acceptable way of finding out?