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Excerpt from The Four Gospels, Vol. 2 of 4: Translated From the Greek, With Preliminary Dissertations, and Notes Critical and Explanatory; With the Author's Last Corrections
Question which any man would put, W'hose image and superscription hath sevenpence hal/joenny. But there may have been formerly sevenpence ha f pen nu pieces, though we have none ndw.' Be it 50. Still, as it is unsuitable to have the head and inscrip tion of a Roman emperor on what must, from the denomination, be understood to be British coin, they ought, for the sake of consistency, and for making the transformation of the money complete, to render the reply to the aforesaid question, George's instead of Cesar's. If this be not translating into English, it is perhaps superior; it is what some modems call Englishing, making English, or doing into English fdr all these expressions are used. Poems done in this manner are sometimes more humbly termed imitations.
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