John Laurence Von Mosheim
Published: 2015-07-03
Total Pages: 566
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Excerpt from Historical Commentaries on the State of Christianity, Vol. 1 of 2: During the First Three Hundred and Twenty-Five Years From the Christian Era Vidal's translation is very faithful and true: but it has a fault not uncommon with the English writers; that of a too great ful ness of expression, or the needless multiplication of words. Of the extent to which this fault prevails, the reader may form some judgment, by comparing the two volumes here presented to the public. In the first volume 447 pages of the Latin original make 536 pages in Vidal's translation; While, in the second vo lume, 542 pages of Latin make only 487 pages in our transla tion; that is, he expands the same amount of Latin into four pages, as we express adequately and fully in about three pages Vidal also erred, as we think, in changing the form or arrange ment of the book; for he stretched the text along the tops of all the pages, and threw the commentary into notes at the bottom, which not only embarrassed the reading of the text, but often rendered it difficult to trace the connexion between the text and the notes. This error is avoided in both the volumes of this edition. 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.