An Essay on Circulation and Credit, in Four Parts: And a Letter on the Jealousy of Commerce (Classic Reprint)

Tranilator has no claim to reputation it muft be confef Ted that in general we are modefl enough to be contented with another kind of reward. Tranflation undoubtedly holds the loweft office inthe republic of letters unlefs the compilation of an index fhould be reckoned among the labors of the mind. There is nothing enterprifing in the genius of a tranilator. He trades upon the property of others without hazarding his own capital confequently has no extraordinary lofs of credit to fear or profit to expea. He is no more than the fa or of a foreign merchant ;and after having taken abundance of pains to difpofe of commodities that do not belong to him mufi: be fatisfied with the honor of having a ed faithfully to his employer and a trifling commiffion. But fince the humility of the office excludes all pretentions to fame it is to be hoped that it will in the fame proportion exempt us from cenfure. If we have no good works of our own to plead, on the other hand we have no original fin to anfwer for. After this humiliating acknowledgement it feems neceflary for the Tranflator of the work now offered to the public to affign fome reafons for imdertaking an employment which he profei Tes to undervalue.
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