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'' | <p><note>Hon<hi rend="superscript">d</hi> Sir!</note><lb/> | ||
By what I have already sent you of my Translation <add>of the first Book</add> of Tully<lb/> | |||
Tusculan Questions you find I am deeply immersed in<lb/> | |||
Philosophy, the Part which I have now <sic>inclosed</sic> will finish<lb/> | |||
that Book, which I must confess is, in several places,<lb/> | |||
extremely difficult, so that a Page or perhaps two or three<lb/> | |||
Lines has taken me up as much time to translate as<lb/> | |||
four or five of his other works; and indeed all the Tusculan<lb/> | |||
Questions in general are the hardest Latin I ever met with<lb/> | |||
not so much because the Construction is difficult, tho' that<lb/> | |||
is none of the easiest, but frequently when I have got<lb/> | |||
the Syntax, it is sometime before I can make <add>either</add> Head<lb/> | |||
or Tail of it: This often happens when two Sentences<lb/> | |||
are <sic>joyn'd</sic> together by some sort of Conjunction, where<lb/> | |||
each seems to have nothing to do with the other, for<lb/> | |||
tho' I could translate Each of <del><unclear>them</unclear></del> 'em <sic>litterally</sic>, yet<lb/> | |||
till I have found out the Relation they bear to one<lb/> | |||
another, and by what means the Sense is connected<lb/> | |||
there's no such thing as making an intelligible<lb/> | |||
Translation. Tho' I say it is difficult, don't<lb/> | |||
<sic>imagin</sic> I am unwilling to go through with what<lb/> | |||
I have undertaken, for if it was three times as much<lb/> | |||
I shou'd have no thoughts of declining it, since I have<lb/> | |||
set about it, & find it is <sic>agreable</sic> to you, and flatter<lb/> | |||
myself you will think I have hit off some of the<lb/> | |||
<del>th</del> difficult parts not unhappily. but sho<hi rend="superscript">d</hi> this <add>Essay</add></p> | |||
Hond Sir!
By what I have already sent you of my Translation of the first Book of Tully
Tusculan Questions you find I am deeply immersed in
Philosophy, the Part which I have now inclosed will finish
that Book, which I must confess is, in several places,
extremely difficult, so that a Page or perhaps two or three
Lines has taken me up as much time to translate as
four or five of his other works; and indeed all the Tusculan
Questions in general are the hardest Latin I ever met with
not so much because the Construction is difficult, tho' that
is none of the easiest, but frequently when I have got
the Syntax, it is sometime before I can make either Head
or Tail of it: This often happens when two Sentences
are joyn'd together by some sort of Conjunction, where
each seems to have nothing to do with the other, for
tho' I could translate Each of them 'em litterally, yet
till I have found out the Relation they bear to one
another, and by what means the Sense is connected
there's no such thing as making an intelligible
Translation. Tho' I say it is difficult, don't
imagin I am unwilling to go through with what
I have undertaken, for if it was three times as much
I shou'd have no thoughts of declining it, since I have
set about it, & find it is agreable to you, and flatter
myself you will think I have hit off some of the
th difficult parts not unhappily. but shod this Essay
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Correspondence |
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Jeremy Bentham |
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