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 gulated by the nature or genius of the languages of the original and of the translation.

Latin language admits of a brevity, which cannot be successfully imitated in the English.

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero thus writes to Trebatius, (lib. 7. ep. 17.):

In Britanniam te profectum non esse gaudeo, quod et tu labore caruisti, et ego to de rebus illis non audiam.

is impossible to translate this into English with equal brevity, and at the same time do complete justice to the sentiment. Melmoth, therefore, has shown great judgement, in sacrificing