The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus by Saint of Avila Teresa
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and is newly translated into English in the year of our Lord
God 1642. 'Aut mori aut pati: Either to dye or else to suffer.'--Chap. xl. "Antwerpe, printed by Joannes Meursius. Anno MDCXLII." The next translation was made by Abraham Woodhead, and published in 1671, without the name of the translator, or of the printer, or of the place of publication. It is in quarto, and bears the following title: "The Life of the Holy Mother St. Teresa, Foundress of the Reformation of the Discalced Carmelites according to the Primitive Rule. Printed in the year MDCLXXI." It is not said that the translation was made from the Spanish, and there are grounds for thinking it to have been made from the Italian. Ch. xxxii. is broken off at the end of section 10; and ch. xxxiii., therefore, is ch. xxxvii. That which is there omitted has been thrown into the Book of the Foundations, which, in the translation of Mr. Woodhead, begins with section 11 of ch. xxxii. of the Life, as it also does in the Italian translation. It is due, however, to Mr. Woodhead to say that he has printed five of the Relations separately, not as letters, but as what they really are, and with that designation. The last translation is that of the Very Reverend John Dalton, Canon of Northampton, which is now, though twice published, |
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