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The greatest authors of the world have bestowed a portion of their immortahty upon legions of translators and commentators, parasite growths which, in default of such stems to cling to, would hardly have risen above the common level. It is the special distinction of Plato to have been thus ministered to by men of real genius, who, even were everything they accomplished for him effaced from the roll of their achievements, would still have left very considerable names. Passing over the Plotinus and Proclus of antiquity, and the Pletho andF icinus of the Renaissance, we find this eminently true of those illustrious modems, Schleiermacher, Victor Cousin, and Benjamin Jowett. If all the labours upon Plato which formed so conspicuous a part of these distinguished mens performance could be obliterated, their names would still endure; but conversely, these would be sufficiently preserved by their work on Plato had they no other title to perpetuity :and, in estimating their claims on the gratitude of posterity, their service toP lato occurs most readily to the mind. Homer and A ristotle, Dante andS hakespeare, have had more numerous disciples and apostles, but it is Plato sspecial glory to have attracted so many men of genius. That service toP lato, nevertheless, is no sure passport to immortality is evinced by the complete oblivion which has overtaken the translation of Plato sR epublic, by Dr. Harry Spens, although its priority to all other Enghsh translations, had it no other claim, should have kept it in remembrance. Published in 1763 at the Press of the University of Glasgow, by Foulis, the most eminent Scotch printer of the age, and dedicated to the Prime Minister, it appears to have attracted no notice from contemporaries, and has never been reprinted until now. The translators own person is shrouded in almost equal obscurity.
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- ÉditeurNabu Press
- Date d'édition2011
- ISBN 10 1245412531
- ISBN 13 9781245412537
- ReliureBroché
- Nombre de pages370
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