 | Tobias Smollett - 1779 - 510 pages
...ftyle and language, it admits but of little improvement ; but, in refpecï of the • fenle and the accuracy of interpretation, the improvements of which it is capable are great and nuinberlejs. The tranflation here otTered is, in general, as clofe to the text, and as literal, as... | |
 | 1790 - 504 pages
...one. For as to ftyle and language it admits of but little improvement; but in refpecl of the feuie and accuracy of interpretation, the improvements of which it is capable are great and numberlefs.' — Preliminary Differtation, p. Ixxii. The author of this little pamphlet produces other... | |
 | 1809 - 604 pages
...the style and ._ language it admits but of little improvement ; but, in respect of 'the sense and the accuracy of interpretation, the improvements of which it is capable are great and numberless." — Bishop Loivth's Isaiah, Pref. Diss. p. Ixxii. We are now conducted to a still more important investigation.... | |
 | Robert Lowth - 1815 - 436 pages
...the style and language, it admits but of little improvement ; but, in respect of the sense and the accuracy of interpretation, the improvements of which it is capable are great and numberless. The translation here offered will perhaps be found to be in general as close to the text, and as literal,... | |
 | 1825 - 896 pages
...to the style and language, it admits but of little improvement; but, in respect of the sense and the accuracy of interpretation, the improvements of which it is capable are great and numberless. The translation here offered will perhaps be found to be in general as close to the text, and as literal,... | |
 | 1827 - 496 pages
...tbe style and language, admits of but little improvement; but that, in respect to the sense, and the accuracy of interpretation, the improvements of which it is capable are great and numberless.' This remark applies with peculiar force to the book of Job, which is generally thought to be less correctly... | |
 | 1830 - 744 pages
...to the style of language it admits but of little improvement, yet, in respect of the sense and the accuracy of interpretation, the improvements of which it is capable, are great and numberless." Bishop Marsh says, " we cannot possibly pretend that our authorized version does not require amendment."... | |
 | 1836 - 488 pages
...to the style and language, it admits but of little improvement ; but in respect of the sense and the accuracy of interpretation, the improvements of which it is capable are great and numberless. The Translation here offered will perhaps be found to be in general as close to the text, and as literal,... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1841 - 572 pages
...the style and language, it admits but of little improvement ; but, in respect of the sense, and the accuracy of interpretation, the improvements of which it is capable, are great and numberless." The truth, — the awful, the soul-overwhelming truth ! — is, that the Lord has been crucified in... | |
 | John Pye Smith - 1842 - 396 pages
...to the style and language, it admits but of little improvement: but in respect of the sense and the accuracy of interpretation, the improvements of which it is capable, are great and numberless."—Bishop LOWTH'S Isaiah ; Prelim. Disc, page 72. PREFACE TO THE PRESENT EDITION. THIS... | |
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For as to the style and language, it admits but of little improvement ; but, in respect of the sense and the accuracy of interpretation, the improvements of which it is capable are great and numberless. 
