Pascal

Pascal, by John Tulloch
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Title: Pascal
Author: John Tulloch Editor: Mrs. Oliphant Release Date: September 29, 2008 Language: English Character set encoding: UTF-8 [eBook #26726]
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PASCAL
BY
PRINCIPAL TULLOCH WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS
EDINBURGH AND LONDON
1878.—REPRINT, 1882 All Rights reserved
PREFATORY NOTE.
p. i
The translations in this volume are chiefly my own; but I have also taken expressions and sentences freely from others—and especially from Dr M’Crie, in his translation of the ‘Provincial Letters’—when they seemed to convey well the sense of the original. It would be impossible to distinguish in all cases between what is my own and what I have borrowed. The ‘Provincial Letters’ have been translated at least four times into English. The translation of Dr M’Crie, published in 1846, is the most spirited. The ‘Pensées’ were translated by the Rev. Edward Craig, A.M. Oxon., in 1825, following the French edition of 1819, which again followed that of Bossut in 1779. A new translation, both of the ‘Letters’ and ‘Pensées,’ by George Pearce, Esq.—the ...