{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"b5329a38df50051d77f47eef41a79012692efb3df0becc03806b97e0c91bbc45","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":["THE WORKS OF AURELIUS AUGUSTINE,","EDITOR'S PREFACE."],"id":"pg45304-paragraph-11","license_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license.html","note_targets":["Footnote_22_22"],"public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"original-paragraph-unclassified","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":null,"source_ebook":45304,"source_html":"<p>The propriety of publishing a translation of so choice a\r\nspecimen of ancient literature needs no defence. As Poujoulat\r\nvery sensibly remarks, there are not a great many men\r\nnow-a-days who will read a work in Latin of twenty-two\r\nbooks. Perhaps there are fewer still who ought to do so.\r\nWith our busy neighbours in France, this work has been a<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_xvi\">[Pg xvi]</a></span>\r\nprime favourite for 400 years. There may be said to be\r\neight independent translations of it into the French tongue,\r\nthough some of these are <i>in part</i> merely revisions. One of\r\nthese translations has gone through as many as four editions.\r\nThe most recent is that which forms part of the Nisard series;\r\nbut the best, so far as we have seen, is that of the accomplished\r\nProfessor of Philosophy in the College of France, Emile Saisset.\r\nThis translation is indeed all that can be desired: here and\r\nthere an omission occurs, and about one or two renderings a\r\ndifference of opinion may exist; but the exceeding felicity\r\nand spirit of the whole show it to have been a labour of\r\nlove, the fond homage of a disciple proud of his master. The\r\npreface of M. Saisset is one of the most valuable contributions\r\never made to the understanding of Augustine's philosophy.<a id=\"FNanchor_22_22\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_22_22\">[22]</a></p>","source_sha256":"d89e9a2b80bb59f394f0fb1bf313b39fab162f06af6642166d62c5912c1195f1","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45304/pg45304-images.html","text_sha256":"c41dcc70dcdc6eb6349bd5e539f8e8273a492dca47d45d7a6a71f164654c52d5","verified":false,"work_id":null}