( noDate conjectural ) post
1777
Original paper slip text:n.d. [post 1777?]
Extract from Brett's Fe[y]joo, vol. 2, ch. 1: "The Ballance of Astrea, or upright administration of Justice; In a letter from an old Judge to his Son, who was newly raised to the bench."
3 p. (in an unidentified hand which must postdate 1777, the earliest year of Brett's works on Father Feyjoo; see note below).
JA—Literary Exercises, Translations &c.
- For John Brett (d. 1785), see DNB, 6:282. Brett's principal works: Translations of Father Feyjoo's Discourses, 4 vols. (1777–1779); and Essays or Discourses Selected from the Works of Feyjoo, tr. from the Spanish, 2 vols. (1780).
- For Frey Benito Feyjoo y Montenegro (1676–1764), noted Spanish critic and scholar, see Century Cyclopedia of Names, p. 389.
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