A New and General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in Every Nation; Particularly the British and Irish; from the Earliest Accounts of Time to the Present Period ...W. Strahan, 1784 - Biography |
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... translations only . The most confiderable are his Jad , which is likewife called " Mifchne . Terah , " his " More Novochim , " and his " Peruschim , or Commentaries upon the Mifna . " the Mifna . " His " Commentaries upon the Mifna " he ...
... translations only . The most confiderable are his Jad , which is likewife called " Mifchne . Terah , " his " More Novochim , " and his " Peruschim , or Commentaries upon the Mifna . " the Mifna . " His " Commentaries upon the Mifna " he ...
Page 89
... translated thirty , which he obtained a privilege to publifh about 1540 , and dedicated to Francis I. His tranflation was cenfured by the faculty of divinity at Paris , who carried matters fo far , as to make remonftrances and ...
... translated thirty , which he obtained a privilege to publifh about 1540 , and dedicated to Francis I. His tranflation was cenfured by the faculty of divinity at Paris , who carried matters fo far , as to make remonftrances and ...
Page 139
... translations . His tranflation of Machiavel's " Dif- " courfes upon Livy " was printed at Paris in 1548 ; and his tranflation of the " Hiftory of Palmerin d'Olive , " son of king Florendos of Macedon and the fair Griana , daughter of ...
... translations . His tranflation of Machiavel's " Dif- " courfes upon Livy " was printed at Paris in 1548 ; and his tranflation of the " Hiftory of Palmerin d'Olive , " son of king Florendos of Macedon and the fair Griana , daughter of ...
Page 193
... translated the Greek authors with a dignity and elegance fufficient to rank him with many of the ancients . He was a man too , who applied himself to things , as well as to words ; for , befides his critical labours upon " Plautus ...
... translated the Greek authors with a dignity and elegance fufficient to rank him with many of the ancients . He was a man too , who applied himself to things , as well as to words ; for , befides his critical labours upon " Plautus ...
Page 284
... translations fhew the true fpirit and numbers of poetry , a delicacy of turns , and juftness of thought and ex- preffion but let us juft tranfcribe a fpecimen . There is among them a tranflation from Taffo , intituled , " Runaway " love ...
... translations fhew the true fpirit and numbers of poetry , a delicacy of turns , and juftness of thought and ex- preffion but let us juft tranfcribe a fpecimen . There is among them a tranflation from Taffo , intituled , " Runaway " love ...
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