The First Printed Translations into English of the Great Foreign Classics: A Supplement to Text-Books of English LiteratureHarris, William James
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The First Printed Translations into English of the Great Foreign Classics: A Supplement to Text-Books of English Literature
Harris, William James
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A BOKE CALLED IN LATYN ENCHIRIDION MILITIS CHRISTIANI AND IN ENGLISH
THE MANUELL OF THE CHRISTEN KNIGHT, replenished with most holsome
precepts to ... the which is added a newe and mervaylous profytable
preface. [This translation is attributed to Tyndale.] (1515.) 1533.
AN EXHORTATION; or FAMILIAR DISCOURSE OF D. ERASMUS.... _Tr._ [by W.
Roy?] 1529.
LYFE OF SAYNT ERASMUS. Imp. by Julyan Notary. [1520.]
A LYTTLE BOOKE OF GOOD MANNERS FOR CHYLDREN. _Tr._ by R. Whytynton.
1522.
THE PARAPHRASE OF ERASMUS UPON THE NEW TESTAMENT. 1548.
THE PRAISE OF FOLIE. (Moriæ Encomium). (1509.) Englisshed by Sir T.
Chaloner, 1549.
A PLAYNE AND GODLY EXPOSITION OR DECLARATIÕ OF THE CÕMUME CREDE
(which in the Latyn tonge is called SYMBOLUM APOSTOLORUM) and OF
THE X CÕMAUNDMENTES by GODDES LAW, newly made and put forth by the
famouse clerke, Mayster E. of Roterdame, etc. [1533.]
PREPARATION TO DEATH, a boke as devout as eloquent. 1543.
A RYGHT FRUTEFULL EPYSTLE ... IN LAUDE AND PRAYSE OF MATRYMONY,
translated in to Englishe by R. Tavenour, etc. [1530.]
Pre-eminent as a restorer of learning. He is considered the
greatest wit and most eminent scholar of the age in which he
lived, and one of the most conspicuous and successful of those
who laboured to restore classical learning and sound philosophy.
=ERCKMANN, EMIL.= _b._ 1822, _d._ 1899. =CHATRIAN, ALEX.= 1826-90.
=French novelists.=
THE BLOCKADE. _Tr._ 1869.
CONSCRIPT. _Tr._ 1865.
DOCTOR MATTHEUS. _Tr._ 1868.
MADAME THÉRÈSE (1863). _Tr._ 1868.
POLISH JEW. _Tr._ 1870.
STORY OF THE PLEBISCITE. _Tr._ 1872.
WATERLOO. _Tr._ 1865.
YEAR ONE OF THE REPUBLIC. _Tr._ [1873].
CITIZEN BONAPARTE. _Tr._ [1874].
ALSACIAN SCHOOLMASTER. _Tr._ [1872].
CONFESSIONS OF A CLARIONET PLAYER [_Tr._ 1874.]
THE BELLS. _Tr._ 1872.
THE WILD HUNTSMAN. _Tr._ [1877].
FRIEND FRITZ. _Tr._ [1873].
BRIGADIER FREDERIC. _Tr._ F. A. Malleson, 1875.
THE BROTHERS RANTZAU. 2v. _Tr._ [1873].
THE GREAT INVASION OF 1813-14. _Tr._ [1870].
WAR. _Tr._ H. L. Williams. [1872].
MAN OF THE PEOPLE. _Tr._ 1871.
STORY OF A PEASANT. _Tr._ [1871].
=ESPINEL, VINCENT.= _b._ 1544, _d._ 1634. =Spanish poet and novelist.=
THE HISTORY OF THE LIFE OF THE SQUIRE MARCOS DE OBREGON. _Tr._ into
English from the Madrid Ed. 1618, by Major Algernon Langton. 2 v.
1618.
This novel is generally supposed to have served as a model for
that of Gil Blas.
=EUCLID.= 3rd century B.C. =Greek geometrician.=
THE ELEMENTS OF GEOMETRY [containing the xv. books] OF ...
EUCLIDE ... now first translated into the Englishe Toung, by H.
Billingsley. Whereunto are annexed certaine annotations of the best
mathematiciens, etc. 1570.
[The first printed Greek text was published in Basle in 1533.]
=EULENSPIEGEL.=
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