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The true meaning of the original is faithfully preserved throughout the work ; and
the trans lation comes up to the spirit of the original , as far as the difference
between the Roman and the English languages « will allow . " * * Wellwood .
The true meaning of the original is faithfully preserved throughout the work ; and
the trans lation comes up to the spirit of the original , as far as the difference
between the Roman and the English languages « will allow . " * * Wellwood .
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Proportional to the ardor and perseverance , which they manifest in pursuit of it ,
they are distinguished by a spirit of enterprize and industry . The more or less
prevalent this spirit is , the greater or less will be the market price of produce , the
...
Proportional to the ardor and perseverance , which they manifest in pursuit of it ,
they are distinguished by a spirit of enterprize and industry . The more or less
prevalent this spirit is , the greater or less will be the market price of produce , the
...
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The obscurity of the clause " ut per lêve se veros effundat junctura ungues
prompted the willing spirit of Dryden to qualify the molli numero " of the satirist
with terms of greater severity , than the original will justify ; and the rage of kings
...
The obscurity of the clause " ut per lêve se veros effundat junctura ungues
prompted the willing spirit of Dryden to qualify the molli numero " of the satirist
with terms of greater severity , than the original will justify ; and the rage of kings
...
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It may be foreseen , that a translator , who thuş marks out his ground , can exhibit
little of the genius and spirit of his author . Sometimes Mr , Drummond renders the
sense of Persius in paraphrase , sometimes he is an imitator , and sometimes ...
It may be foreseen , that a translator , who thuş marks out his ground , can exhibit
little of the genius and spirit of his author . Sometimes Mr , Drummond renders the
sense of Persius in paraphrase , sometimes he is an imitator , and sometimes ...
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man of spirit ; and has besides disenabled his adversary from ever disturbing or
affronting him in future . And his pride must receive fresh gratification from the
idea , that his opponent is no mean trophy ; since he was , like himself , a votary
of ...
man of spirit ; and has besides disenabled his adversary from ever disturbing or
affronting him in future . And his pride must receive fresh gratification from the
idea , that his opponent is no mean trophy ; since he was , like himself , a votary
of ...
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Page 91 - Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No : men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude, Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain ; These constitute a State ; And sovereign law, that State's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing...
Page 9 - And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.
Page 91 - WHAT CONSTITUTES A STATE? WHAT constitutes a state ? Not high-raised battlement or labored mound, Thick wall or moated gate ; Not cities proud with spires and turrets crowned ; Not bays and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride, Not starred and spangled courts, Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No, men, high-minded men...
Page 241 - English : and have endeavoured to make him speak that kind of English which he would have spoken had he lived in England, and had written to this age.
Page 93 - This indigested vomit of the sea Fell to the Dutch by just propriety. Glad then, as miners who have found the ore, They, with mad labour...
Page 78 - This grew speedily to an excess ; for men began to hunt more after words than matter, and more after the choiceness of the phrase, and the round and clean composition of the sentence, and the sweet falling of the clauses, and the varying and illustration of their works with tropes and figures, than after the weight of matter, worth of subject, soundness of argument, life of invention, or depth of judgment.
Page 9 - And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
Page 92 - O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill. Smit by her sacred frown, The fiend discretion like a vapor sinks ; And e'en the all-dazzling crown Hides his faint rays, and at her bidding shrinks.
Page 8 - In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
Page 93 - Nature, it seemed, ashamed of her mistake, Would throw their land away at duck and drake, Therefore necessity, that first made kings, Something like government among them brings. For, as with...
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| Title | The Literary Miscellany: Including Dissertations and Essays on Subjects of Literature, Science, and Morals; Biographical and Historical Sketches; Critical Remarks on Language; with Occasional Reviews ..., Volume 2 |
| Contributor | Phi Beta Kappa. Massachusetts Alpha (Harvard University) |
| Publisher | W. Hilliard., 1806 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 22 May 2007 |
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