Complex sentence: It is an able treatise on the subject discussed, and alludes to Da Costa only by his first name: ten years previous to the publication of this pamphlet Samuel da Silva made a Spanish translation of Moses Maimonides' tract on repentance.
Split into simpler sentences: It is an able treatise on the subject discussed, and alludes to Da Costa only by his first name. Ten years previous to the publication of this pamphlet Samuel da Silva made a Spanish translation of Moses Maimonides' tract on repentance.