The History of the Life of Our Lord Jesus Christ: From His Incarnation Until His Ascension, Denoting and Incorporating the Words of the Sacred Text from the Vulgate; Also, the History of the Acts of the Apostle (Classic Reprint)

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Tun first part of this work, viz., the Life of Our Lord Jesus Christ, has been already published on the other side of the Atlantic; but somehow the translation was not approved of by American read ers, and I have endeavored to place before them a new version of a work so justly esteemed. In looking over the translation already made by a learned gentleman of Dublin, I very'soon perceived that his great error lay in a too close adherence to the original, thereby cramping and constraining, to a certain extent, the English mean ing. There is no denying that the translation'is, in the main, a faithful one; but it is in many instances too faithful to the French to be altogether true to the English, seeing that the genius of the two languages is so very, very different. If I have succeeded, even partially, in making this great work acceptable to the American public, I shall be well repaid for my labor.

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