Letters Written By A Turkish Spy Who Lived Five And Forty Years Undiscovered At Paris PDF Download

Excerpt from Letters Written by a Turkish Spy, Who Lived Five-and-Forty Years Undiscovered at Paris, Vol. 6: Giving an Impartial Account to the Divan at Constantinople of the Most Remarkable Transactions of Europe, and Discovering Several Intrigues and Secrets of the Christian Courts, (Especially of That of France) Continued From the Year 1659 to the Year 1682 But to come to the purpofe: 'i have often heard tranflations blamed for keeping too clofe to the ori ginal phrafe, but never any before this for a negli gence that is a'bfolutely necefl'ary to retain the fenfe of a foreign author. All the world knows there is a wait difference between Arabic and the languages of Europe; and if the Italian tranllator was more traé'r in forming his words up to a near imitation of the Eafi'ern proprieties of fpeech, no doubt 'but int partial men will rather cenfure it as a fault, than cry it up for an excellency, fince nothing founds well in any language, which is not delivered in the natural idiom. Every thing ought to be written in-as familiar a fiyle as we difcourfe, efpecially letters, which are but a proxy method of converiing at a diliance; and he that tranllates out of one language into another ought to aim chiefly at this, that he be fore to retain the original fenfe, and render it fmooth and eafy to the reader. The flowers of Arabia and Italy, when once tranfplanted to our barren Englilh 'foil, 'lofe their virtue and beauty till they are naturalifed. 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.