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Most of the notes to the ensuing Paraphrases are addressed to their unlearned Readers, since no allusion can interest which is not perfectly comprehended.

From Original sonnets on various subjects; and odes paraphrased from Horace by Seward, Anna

This is a rather different account from what Lord Cromer gave in the preface to his Paraphrases, but I report it on his own later authority.

From Some Diversions of a Man of Letters by Gosse, Edmund

Buchanan, in the dungeon of a monastery in Portugal, composed his excellent Paraphrases of the Psalms of David.

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 by Disraeli, Isaac

See the chapters relating to the Chaldee Paraphrases.

From The Messiah in Moses and the Prophets by Lord, Eleazar

Lefèvre prided himself on being literal, remarking, with a side glance at Erasmus's Paraphrases, that it was dangerous to try to be more elegant than Scripture.

From The Age of the Reformation by Smith, Preserved