 | Anthony Johnson - 1730 - 176 pagina’s
...Dutch Languages. The Defign, as the Preface tells us, was not to make a Tranflation altogether new, nor yet to make of a bad one a good one, but to make a good one better ; or of many ones, one principal good one, not juftly to be excepted againft. But this glorious Work did... | |
 | Richard Watson - 1791 - 500 pagina’s
...Duttb Languages. The Delïgn, as the Preface tells us, was not to make a Tranflation »Itogether new, nor yet to make of a bad one a good one, but to make a good one better; or of many ones, one principal good one, not juftly to be excepted againft. But this glorious Work did... | |
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - 1797 - 430 pagina’s
...James gave order for a new one} not, as the preface exprefles it, for a tranflation altogether new, nor yet to make of a bad one a good one, but to make a good one better, or of many good ones one beft. Fifty- four learned perfons were appointed for this office by the King,... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1809 - 716 pagina’s
...James gave orders for a new one ; not, as the preface expresses it, for a translation altogether new, nor yet to make of a bad one a good one; but to make a good one better, or of many good ones one best Fifty-fonr learned persons were appointed for this office by the king, as... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1813 - 764 pagina’s
...James gave order fora new one; not, as the preface expresses it, for a translation altogether new, nor yet to make of a bad one a good one, but to mnke a good one better, or of many good ones one best. Fiftyfour learned persons were appointed for... | |
 | 1815 - 404 pagina’s
...this their perusal "and survey of the Bible." "We "never thought," say they, "from "the beginning, that we should "need to make a new Translation, "nor...a good "one better, or out of many good "ones, one prineipal good one, •not justly to be exeepted against. •• . . . And in what sort did these "[translators]... | |
 | 1815 - 398 pagina’s
..."never thought," say they, "from "the beginning, that we should "need to makeanewTransIation, "nor yct to make of a bad one a "good one; but to make a good "one bctter, or out of many good "ones, one principal good one, "not justly tobe excepted against. "...... | |
 | 1829 - 632 pagina’s
...translation. King James accordingly issued an order to prepare one. " Not for a translation altogether new, nor yet to make of a bad one a good one ; but to make a good one better, or of many good ones, one best." In 1604, fifty-four learned persons were appointed to this most important... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1819 - 370 pagina’s
...James gave orders for a new one ; not, as the preface expresses it, for a translation altogether new, nor yet to make of a bad one a good one ; but to make a good one better, or of many good ones one best. Fifty-four learned persons were appointed forthis office by the king, as... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1820 - 628 pagina’s
...quotes a passage from the preface, in which they say, ' they never thought from the beginning that they should need to make a new translation, nor yet to make of a bad one a good one ; but their endeavour and mark was, to make a good one better, or, out of many good ones, one principal good... | |
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Truly, good Christian reader, we never thought from the beginning that we should need to make a new translation, nor yet to make of a bad one a good one... 
