text:  If there was no other argument but this it would serve materially to invalidate Le Sage's claims to originality; as the omission of these words makes nonsense of a sentence perfectly intelligible when corrected and causes the writer in the very act of alluding to a most notorious fact in Spanish history with which even in its least details he appears in other places familiar to display the most unaccountable ignorance of the very fact he makes the basis of his narrative