Tuesday 30 December 2008

Analytical Table of Contents

[De la richesse commerciale, Sismondi, 1803, Original, xxv]

Table analytique des matières.
   L’on a cru rendre service au lecteur, en plaçant à la tête de cet ouvrage, une Table analytique très détaillée, qui en indique toutes les idées principales, ainsi que leur filiation. Cette Table, à peu de changements près, n’est autre chose que le canevas que l’auteur avoit [avait] tracé d’avance, et qui lui a servi à la composion de son livre.

[Translation]

Analytical Table of Contents.
   It has been believed to be useful to the reader to place at the head of this work a very detailed analytical table, which shows not only all its principal ideas but also their relation. This table, besides a few changes, is nothing but the framework which the author wrote in advance, and which has been useful to him in composition of his book.

[Translator's note]

The passage above is placed at the head of that table of contents which occupies so many pages (xxv-lxxxv). I will skip over the rest of that table, and translate the next part "introduction" from tomorrow on.

2 comments:

  1. hi françois-marie

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    sismondi yours,

    velvetyne

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