Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 141

It was a wish he had much at heart, and when the proposal was voluntarily made to him by the present Publishers, to undertake the task of a new translation of an enlarged number of Æsop’s Fables, he saw no reason for refusing the offer because of his prior discharge of a totally different design; and he resolved to comply with the request submitted to him, and to do his best towards the attainment of so desirable an object as a purer translation and more literal rendering of fables so justly celebrated.

Who acts: necessity, editor, present Publishers, reason, enlarged number · What happens: be, have, make, undertake, enlarge, see · To what, where: wish, heart, proposal, editor, task, reason

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