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{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Of English translations there has been an unaccountable\r\npoverty. Only one exists,<a id=\"FNanchor_23_23\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_23_23\">[23]</a> and this so exceptionally bad, so\r\nunlike the racy translations of the seventeenth century in\r\ngeneral, so inaccurate, and so frequently unintelligible, that\r\nit is not impossible it may have done something towards\r\ngiving the English public a distaste for the book itself. That\r\nthe present translation also might be improved, we know;\r\nthat many men were fitter for the task, on the score of\r\nscholarship, we are very sensible; but that any one would\r\nhave executed it with intenser affection and veneration for\r\nthe author, we are not prepared to admit. A few notes have\r\nbeen added where it appeared to be necessary. Some are\r\noriginal, some from the Benedictine Augustine, and the rest\r\nfrom the elaborate commentary of Vives.<a id=\"FNanchor_24_24\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_24_24\">[24]</a></p>","headings":["THE WORKS OF AURELIUS AUGUSTINE,","EDITOR'S PREFACE."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45304-paragraph-12"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"f58ddcf5db2b9e78b57e56ed81af02e4063412f8ddf17814577a20825ec7333b","edition_title":"The City of God, Volume I","edition_translators":["Marcus Dods","George Wilson (Book IV)","J. J. Smith (Books V-VIII)"],"edition_year":1871,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg45304-Footnote_24_24","license_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license.html","public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"original-editor-translator-note","review_required":["work and recension attribution","original-work chronology","Bible reference numbering and citation kind","English edition rights and attribution"],"review_status":"needs_review","rights_evidence":"Provider catalog reports public domain in the USA. Original transcription title leaves state T. & T. Clark, Edinburgh, 1871; printed translator allocation retained. Gutenberg credits Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries without an exact scan identifier. Full provider license preserved with acquired original; republication and per-work metadata remain unreviewed.","source_anchor":"Footnote_24_24","source_ebook":45304,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_24_24\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_24_24\"><span class=\"label\">[24]</span></a> As the letters of Vives are not in every library, we give his comico-pathetic\r\naccount of the result of his Augustinian labours on his health: \"Ex quo\r\nAugustinum perfeci, nunquam valui ex sententia; proximâ vero hebdomade\r\net hac, fracto corpore cuncto, et nervis lassitudine quadam et debilitate dejectis,\r\nin caput decem turres incumbere mihi videntur incidendo pondere, ac mole\r\nintolerabili; isti sunt fructus studiorum, et merces pulcherrimi laboris; quid\r\nlabor et benefacta juvant?\"</p></div>","source_sha256":"d89e9a2b80bb59f394f0fb1bf313b39fab162f06af6642166d62c5912c1195f1","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45304/pg45304-images.html#Footnote_24_24","text_sha256":"f6cd7f121c84b25ef16fc885deafe7a8991f98fec8b53d089a65754afad46e7d","verified":false,"work_id":null}references: [] | work_id: | origin: existing-private-derived-record | source: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45304/pg45304-images.html#Footnote_24_24