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PRINCIPLES OF
Chap. IX.


CHAPTER IX.

Third General Rule—A Translation should have all the Ease of Original Composition.—Extreme difficulty in the observance of this Rule.—Contrasted Instances of Success and Failure.

It remains now that we consider the third general law of translation.

In order that the merit of the original work may be so completely transfused as to produce its full effect, it is necessary,not