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  • No less than eight English translations, or so-called transla - tions, have appeared; one American, a Swedish, and

    Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims Fran��ois duc de La Rochefoucauld 1646

  • We have to transla te jargon, simplify when appropriate, use analogies when they work.

    Communicating Science And Engineering In A Sound Bite World 1998

  • Kurt went to the charthouse, labored over his transla - tion the rest of that day, and during the few free moments he obtained during the passage to Bab el Mandeb.

    The Heirs of Babylon Cook, Glen 1972

  • He collated his transla - tion and notes, took the book from his safe, and gave the lot to Gregor.

    The Heirs of Babylon Cook, Glen 1972

  • Cours de littérature dramatique appeared in a transla - tion by Madame Necker de Saussure, a cousin of Ma - dame de Staël.

    ROMANTICISM IN LITERATURE REN 1968

  • Quesnay, Voltaire, Leibniz, and Christian Wolff were acclaiming Chinese thought; chinoiserie and the cult of Confucius the Sage were stylish among certain ele - ments of European high society; and the first transla - tions of the Oriental classics were appearing from the hands of scholars such as Anquetil Duperron and Sir

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas CARL T. JACKSON 1968

  • There were three known Latin transla - tions: one by Cicero in his De natura deorum (II, 41), one ascribed to Germanicus Caesar, and one to Festus

    PRIMITIVISM GEORGE BOAS 1968

  • The Right to the Whole Produce of Labor (1899) by an Austrian, Anton Menger, has in the English transla - tion an Introduction by H.S. Foxwell, which gives perhaps the best account of the group.

    ECONOMIC HISTORY FRANK H. KNIGHT 1968

  • Furthermore, the humanists pro - vided new and better versions of the earlier transla - tions.

    HUMANISM IN ITALY PETER HERDE 1968

  • Champier's transla - tions of Ficino's efforts were less in the spirit of Plato than in the spirit of the Middle Ages.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas JOHN FISHER 1968

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