Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »
Sign in
Libros Libros
" The great pest of speech is frequency of translation. No book was ever turned from one language into another, without imparting something of its native idiom... "
Lectures on Eloquence and Style - Página 117
por Ebenezer Porter, Lyman Matthews - 1836 - 186 páginas
Vista completa - Acerca de este libro

The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The Adventurer. Philological tracts

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 500 páginas
...obtrude borrowed terms and exotick expreflions. The great peft of fpeech is frequency of tranflation. No book was ever turned from one language into another, without imparting fomething of its native idiom ; this is the moft mifchievous and comprehenfive innovation ; Tingle...
Vista completa - Acerca de este libro

The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.

Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 454 páginas
...obtrude borrowed tefm* and exotick expreffions. The great pefl of f[>eech is frequency of tranflation. No book was ever turned from one language into another, without imparting fomethingof its native idiom; this is the moft mifchievous and comprehenfive innovation; fingle words...
Vista completa - Acerca de este libro

Anti-Jacobin Review, True Churchman's Magazine; and Protestant ..., Volumen11

1802 - 552 páginas
...fpeech(fayb that eminent critic, in the nnble preface to his dictionary) is frequency of tranflation. — No book was ever turned from one language into another, without imparting fomething of its native idiom : this is t~.e moft mifchievous, and comprehenlive innovation : fingle...
Vista completa - Acerca de este libro

The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volumen92

1850 - 638 páginas
...themselves in translating it. ' The great pest of speech,' says Johnson, ' is frequency of translation. No book was ever ' turned from one language into another...without imparting ' something of its native idiom.' But the extent to which this importation of French words was carried in the translations of the metrical...
Vista completa - Acerca de este libro

The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Consisting of Maxims and Observations ...

Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 páginas
...nothing but the language. vIbid. p. 94 & 99. The greatest pest of speech, is frequency of translation. No book was ever turned from one language into another,...the fabric of the tongue continue the same; but new phr.ise»logy changes much at once ; it alters not the single'stones of the building, butthe order...
Vista completa - Acerca de este libro

A New and Enlarged Military Dictionary: Or, Alphabetical Explanation of ...

Charles James - 1805 - 1236 páginas
...wittingly done so) will obtrude borrowed terms and exotick expressions. Let it also be remembered, that no book was ever turned from one language into another,...without imparting something of its native idiom." • How would я handful of men have been able to check Bonaparte at Acre, liad not the talents of...
Vista completa - Acerca de este libro

The Charges of Jean Baptiste Massillon, Bishop of Clermont, Addressed to His ...

Jean-Baptiste Massillon - 1806 - 350 páginas
...mind, as my apology, the observation of the first of critics and the best of men, Dr. Johnson, that — "No book was ever turned from one language into another,...without imparting something of its native idiom." I . cannot, in my judgment, be too often inculcated nor too earnestly impressed. The last five are...
Vista completa - Acerca de este libro

The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and ..., Volumen2

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 486 páginas
...obtrude borrowed terms and exotic expressions. The great pest of speech is frequency of trans* lation. No book was ever turned from one language into another,...innovation ; single words may enter by thousands, and the fabrick of the tongue continue the same ; but new phraseology changes much at once ; it alters not...
Vista completa - Acerca de este libro

A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from ...

Samuel Johnson - 1812 - 808 páginas
...The great pest of speech is frequency of translation. No book was ever turned from one language inlo another, without imparting something of its native...innovation; single words may enter by thousands, and the fabrick of the tongue continue the same; but new phrase* ology changes much at once ; it alters not...
Vista completa - Acerca de este libro

The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volumen2

Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 492 páginas
...obtrude borrowed terms and exotick expressions. The great pest of speech is frequency of translation. No book was ever turned from one language into another,...innovation ; single words may enter by thousands, and the fabrick of the tongue continue the same ; but new phraseology changes much at once ; it alters not...
Vista completa - Acerca de este libro




  1. Mi biblioteca
  2. Ayuda
  3. Búsqueda avanzada de libros
  4. Descargar EPUB
  5. Descargar PDF