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Essay on the Principles of Translation
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Ql Alexander Fraser Tytler, Lord Woodhouselee, author of the present essay on Translation, and of various works on Universal and on Local History, was one of that Edinburgh circle which was revolving when Sir Walter Scott was a young probationer. Tytler was born at Edinburgh, October 15, 1747, went to the High School there, and after two years at Kensington, under Elphinston Dr. Johnson s Elphinston entered Edinburgh University (where he afterwards became Professor of Universal History). He seems to have been Elphinston sfavourite pupil, and to have particularly gratified his master, the celebrated Dr. Jortin too, by his Latin verse. In 1770 he was called to the bar; in 1776 married a wife ;in 1790 was appointed Judge-A dvocate of Scotland; in 1792 became the master of Woodhouselee on the death of his father. Ten years later he was raised to the bench of the court of session, with his fathers title Lord Woodhouselee. But the law was only the professional background to his other avocation of literature. Like his father, something of a personage at the Royal Society of Edinburgh, it was before its members that he read the papers which were afterwards cast into the present work. In them we have all that is still valid of his very considerable literary labours. Before it appeared, his effect on his younger contemporaries in Edinburgh had already been very marked if we may judge by Lockhart. His encouragement undoubtedly helped to speed Scott on his way, especially into that German romantic region out of which a new Gothic breath was breathed on the Scottish thistle.