The Gospel Of St. John, In Spanish: Adapted To The Hamiltonian System, By An Analytical And Interlineal Translation (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Gospel Of St. John, In Spanish: Adapted To The Hamiltonian System, By An Analytical And Interlineal Translation. As the object of the author has boóu that the pupil should know every word as well as he knows it himself, he has uniform given it the one sole, precise; meaning which it has in our language, eu cññcing everywhere the beauty, the idiom, and the correctness of the English language to the original, in order to show the perfect idiom, phraaeology. Und pictnreof thatorigínalas inaglass.' Safaristhis carried, that where the English We can ex press the precise, meaning of the Spanish phrase only by a barbarism, this barbari without sora e; - as thus: y las tinieblas no la eomprehondi ron the word plural. If you translate it darkness you' not only give a false translation of the word itself in this instance, but whatis much more important, you lead the pupil into' an error about its government, it being the nominativo me to comprehendiéron, which is the third person plural; itis, therefore, translated not dark ness, but darknesses. I have said that each word is trauslabd by its ºne sole underiating meaning, as saming as.an incontrovertible princrple, in all lan guages, that, ºwith very few exceptions, each word has one, meaning only, and can usually be rendered correctly into another by one word only, which one word, should serve for its representative at all times and on all occasions.. About the Publisher. Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.