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Page 166
... translate Maimbourg's History of the League ; which he published with a large introduction . His name is likewise prefixed to the English Life of Francis Xavier ; but I know not that he ever owned himself the translator . Perhaps the ...
... translate Maimbourg's History of the League ; which he published with a large introduction . His name is likewise prefixed to the English Life of Francis Xavier ; but I know not that he ever owned himself the translator . Perhaps the ...
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... translation . When languages are formed upon different principles , it is impossible that the same modes of expression should always be elegant in both . While they run on together , the closest transla- tion may be considered as the ...
... translation . When languages are formed upon different principles , it is impossible that the same modes of expression should always be elegant in both . While they run on together , the closest transla- tion may be considered as the ...
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... translation will be given , when it is said to preserve the wit , but to want the dignity of the original . The peculiarity of Juvenal is a mixture of gaiety and stateliness , of pointed sentences and declamatory grandeur . His points ...
... translation will be given , when it is said to preserve the wit , but to want the dignity of the original . The peculiarity of Juvenal is a mixture of gaiety and stateliness , of pointed sentences and declamatory grandeur . His points ...
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