"The utility of translations is universally felt, and therefore there is a continual demand for them. But this very ci…"

"It is not, perhaps, unreasonable to conclude, that a pure and perfect democracy is a thing not attainable by man, con…"

"I. ... the Translation should give a complete transcript of the ideas of the original work. II. ... the style and man…"

"An ordinary translator sinks under the energy of his original: the man of genius frequently rises above it."

"Works which consist of fact and detail demand a more scrupulous fidelity than those of which the basis is sentiment."

"It is always a fault when the translator adds to the sentiment of the original author, what does not strictly accord …"

"But if authors, even of taste and genius, be found at times to have made an injudicious use of that liberty which is …"

"Next in importance to a faithful transfusion of the sense and meaning of an author, is an assimilation of the style a…"

"In Latin two negatives make an affirmative; but it is otherwise in Greek, they only give force to the negation ..."

"... a translator may discern the general character of his author's style, and yet fail remarkably in the imitation of…"