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Page 161
... qualify their reader for a better performance of translation than might have been attained by his own reflections . ... that he should be such as may deserve a translation ; that he who intends to translate him should endeavour to ...
... qualify their reader for a better performance of translation than might have been attained by his own reflections . ... that he should be such as may deserve a translation ; that he who intends to translate him should endeavour to ...
Page 267
He was supposed to have undertaken to translate Varillas's History of Heresies ; and when Burnet published Remarks upon ... Now , if he thinks it is recovered by his Answer , he will perhaps go on with his translation ; and this may be ...
He was supposed to have undertaken to translate Varillas's History of Heresies ; and when Burnet published Remarks upon ... Now , if he thinks it is recovered by his Answer , he will perhaps go on with his translation ; and this may be ...
Page 295
The affluence and comprehension of our language is very illustriously displayed in our poetical translations of ... his con- temporary and adversary , considers it as indispensably requisite in a translation to give line for line .
The affluence and comprehension of our language is very illustriously displayed in our poetical translations of ... his con- temporary and adversary , considers it as indispensably requisite in a translation to give line for line .
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