Advices From Parnassus, in Two Centuries: With the Political Touchstone, and an Appendix to It (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Inhaltsangabe

Excerpt from Advices From Parnassus, in Two Centuries: With the Political Touchstone, and an Appendix to It

B E F0 R E we conclude, 'tis neceflary to add a word or two concerning this Tranjlation. Care has h'een taken every where to keep to the Author's Senfi', hut it has heen thought proper to contrati his Stile in many places, where it was manije/lly too prolix and fell into Repetitions, which wou'd have heen very dt/izgreeahle to an Englzjh Reader. The Italian is indeed a mufical Language, hut not the mo]? Conci/e in the W orld And whoever reads B o C C A L 1 N 1 in the Original, will find that he ahounds with vet y long Periods for this reafisn there was a neceflity to hreak 'em, and to contrive more flops, that the Reader might not he run out of hreath hut this is done with the flriélefl regard to the Senfi', Elegance, and Connexion of the Au thor.

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.

Die Inhaltsangabe kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.