I was able to see it by scrolling up and down some.

https://imgur.com/gallery/cMoV7

"Life, after all, is a dream of little more than fifty years, and, whatever one does for a living, it is not difficult to stay so brief a course."

sublime

Would you mind describing what the last few words mean?

"Dude, can you just not be evil for like 50 years?"

Because life is not too long, we should be able to keep on track the whole while -- it's not outside our power.

"stay the course" is mostly nautical, means keep going straight, i.e. staying on the wanted direction despite small variations of wind or waves.

Oh wow, this worked for me too. Scroll up a page, then scroll down. You can keep reading.

(Thanks, also works for me.)

"Risuke became stark mad, revealing his private affairs to the whole province."

Tough times.

The book was published in 1959.

Even though it is derivative, translations are eligible for copyright as an original work.

http://bookwormtranslations.com/copyright-law-and-translatio...

Even still, copyright should expire after less than 60 years.

Well, regardless of what you and I agree that it should be, the rule is Life + 70 years in the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries%27_copyright...

> Would be nice if Google didn't limit the visibility of a book published in the 17th century.

This book was published in 1959. It is copyrighted by Cambridge University Press and is a translation by G. W. Sargent, with introduction and commentary.

why did you do that?