Chap. XI.
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CHAPTER XI.
Of the translation of idiomatic phrases.—Examples from Cotton, Eachard, Sterne.—Injudicious use of idioms in the translation, which do not correspond with the age or country of the original.—Idiomatic phrases sometimes incapable of translation.
While a translator endeavours to give to his work all the ease of original composition, the chief difficul-ty
