AN

INTRODUCTION

TO THE MOST USEFUL

EUROPEAN LANGUAGES,

CONSISTING OF

SELECT PASSAG E S,

From the most celebrated

ENGLISH, FRENCH, ITALIAN, and SPANISH

AUTHORS.

With TRANSLATIONS as close as poffible;

So difpofed, in Columns, as to give in one View the Manner
of expreffing the fame Sentence in each Language.

Intended for the Ufe of Foreigners, Merchants, and Gentlemen who
make the Knowledge of thofe Languages their Study.

BY JOSEPH BARETTI,
Secretary for Foreign Correspondence to the Royal Academy of Painting,
Sculpture, and Architecture.

LONDON,

Printed for T. DAVIES, in Ruffel Street, Covent Garden; and
T. CADELL, in the Strand. 1772.

/ TO THE

LEARNER of LANGUAGES.

N°

Book ever had lefs need of a Preface than

this, as the Title alone might well ftand in the ftead of one: yet, in compliance with the custom of never difmiffing any work from the prefs without this kind of decoration, I fhall fay, that I have taken fome pains to render it useful, and am pretty confident that Teachers as well as Learners will find it convenient. Exactness in rendering the meaning is what I have chiefly endeavoured after, in the following verfions: but let it be remembered, that this fort of exactness often precludes elegance, and forces fometimes a tranflator into petty improprieties of diction.