Excerpt from The Main Principles of the Creed and Ethics of Jews: Exhibited in Selections From the Yad Hachazakah of Maimonides, With a Literal English Translation, Copious Illustrations From the Talmud, &C., Explanatory Notes, an Alphabetical Glossary of Such Particles and Technical Terms as Occur in the Selections, An
Reverend Sir,
Independently' of the great debt of gratitude which I owe to yourself and to your learned friend, the Rev. George Skinner, for the unvarying kindness and encouragement, which ever since my arrival in Cambridge, it has been my good fortune to experience in an equal degree from both of you, I am under peculiar obligations to you, Reverend Sir, for your extreme condescension in undertaking to examine the manuscript of this work, previous to its going to the press, not merely for the kind purpose of pruning it of its most striking foreign idioms, but also with the view of comparing it with the original, and of pointing out to me the passages where the translation might be made more literal than I, as a foreigner, first thought that the genius of your language would admit of.
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