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"How do you figure it out, General?" asked Barclay, still walking the carpet. The general fumbled for a paper in his pocket and handed it to Barclay. He took it, glanced at it a moment, and then said: "I'm no good at translating another man's figures how is it in short? Right down to bed-rock?"
Zacchæus in translating the Old Testament into Syriac, from the Septuagint Greek; and he closes his labours with begging the reader to pray for the soul of his friend Thomas. Such was now the reputation of the Alexandrian edition of the Bible, that these scholars preferred it both to the original Hebrew of the Old and to the earlier manuscripts of the New Testament.
Sir Asinus declined the pipe proffered to him, but applied himself to the old sherry with great gusto much to his Excellency's satisfaction. "You were near being discovered," said Fauquier, smiling; "then you would have been made an example." "Ex gracia exempli," said Sir Asinus, emptying his glass, and translating into the original respectfully. "Ah, you wild college boys!
And while translating I hold this book in my hand, not that I can see to read a line of it, but because the mere touch of it, my companion on many campaigns, seems to unloose my memory. Except in handling this small volume, I have none of the delicate gift of touch with which blind men are usually credited. But this is page 106, is it not?"
To read even the best of that immediately preceding criticism of which something has been said above nay, even to recur to Coleridge and Hazlitt and Lamb and then to take up On Translating Homer, is to pass to a critic with a far fuller equipment, with a new method, with a style of his own, and with an almost entirely novel conception of the whole art of criticism.
The Papists were making rapid progress, the land being undermined by the steady and stealthy encroachments of the Jesuits. Lord Burghley sent many copies of his pamphlet, in Latin, French, and Italian, against the Seminaries, to Gebhard Truchsess; and the deposed archbishop made himself busy in translating that wholesome production into German, and in dispersing it "all Germany over."
On his hearing that a piece, entitled 'Misanthropie et Repentir', had been brought out at the Odeon, he said to me, "Bourrienne, you have been robbed." "I, General? how?" "You have been robbed, I tell you, and they are now acting your piece." I have already mentioned that during my stay at Warsaw I amused myself with translating a celebrated play of Kotzebue.
In translating these languages, young Quin was of great service to me; for I had a smattering of French and High Dutch, when I was in the army, of course, I knew well but Italian I knew nothing of, and was glad of the services of so faithful and cheap an interpreter.
Though he echoed Greeley's cry for peace translating his passionate hysteria into the polished cynicism of a diplomat who had been known to deny that he was ever entirely serious he scoffed at Greeley's fears. If the South had not voted lack of confidence in the Breckinridge crowd, what had it voted?
Indeed without this emendation it would not be easy to construe the words, even if thnaton could bear the meaning which Mr. Croker ascribes to it without imminent danger of a flogging. Mr. Croker has also given us a specimen of his skill in translating Latin. Johnson wrote a note in which he consulted his friend, Dr. Lawrence, on the propriety of losing some blood.
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