Chap. II.
TRANSLATION.
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CHAPTER II.
First general rule—A translation should give a complete transcript of the ideas of the original work.—Knowledge of the language of the original, and acquaintance with the subject.—Examples of imperfect translation of the sense of the original.—What ought to be the conduct of a Translator where the sense is ambiguous.
In order that a translator may be enabled to give a complete transcript of the ideas of the original work, it is indispensably necessary, that he should havea
