The Critical Review, Vol. 3
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Excerpt from The Critical Review, Vol. 3: Or Annals of Literature; Extended and Improved The specimens which we gave in our last number, may suffice to convey an idea of the general style of the translation before us. Every competent and impartial judge will, we conceive, allow that it bears little resemblance to the dignified original, and will confess (to adopt a metaphor used by Mr, Taylor) that ´the deep and majestic river of eloquence,´ so conspicuous in Plato´s writings, if not ´ branched out into a number of smaller rivulets,´ is rendered in its new channel both hoarse and turbid. But this is not all: we have a much greater fault to urge against the performance. It is not only void of dignity and elegance; it is void of correctness also. This opinion indeed we have already expressed: we have done more we have in some measure proved it. But we are desirous of placing our assertion beyond the reach of cavil; we wish to support the charge by such a body of evidence, as shall leave no room for the translator´s warmest admirers and most zealous patrons (if such he have) to say that he has been unfairly treated, It is this which induces us to speak more fully than usual of the gross errors with which the translation abounds - errors which it would have been impossible not to censure in any one who had ventured to appear before the public as a man of learning; but, in a person who arrogates almost exclusively to himself that title, and is impudent enough to pronounce himself the only man who has read Plato with a view to understand him, are flagitious and unpardonable; it becomes necessary to hold up such vanity and self-conceit to the view and derision of all men. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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