More: Utopia (1685 Burnet Translation)

[more] writers than that unmerciful exposing of them has done.

I now have much free time original: "leisure" and am looking for distraction original: "want diversion", so I have spent some of my hours on translations. In this work, I have set good examples original: "no ill Patterns" for myself to follow; however, the reader will be best able to judge whether I have skillfully copied such original works. This small volume which I am now publishing was written by one of the greatest men that this island [Britain] has produced. It seemed to me to contain so many excellent and well-considered ideas original: "well-digested Notions" that I thought it might be a kind and pleasant service original: "no unkind nor ill entertainment" to the nation to put a book in their hands to which they have such a strong claim original: "Title". This book shares a very common fate, which is to be