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... shall find my apology . To define with accuracy the variety , value , and extent of his literary attainments , requires more learning than I pretend to poffefs , and I am therefore to folicit your indulgence for an imperfect sketch ...
... shall find my apology . To define with accuracy the variety , value , and extent of his literary attainments , requires more learning than I pretend to poffefs , and I am therefore to folicit your indulgence for an imperfect sketch ...
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... valuable or pleafing , I shall offer my humble Nezr to your fociety with as much respectful zeal as to the greatest potentate on earth . THE SECOND ANNIVERSARY DISCOURSE , DELIVERED 24 FEBRUARY , 1785 THE PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE .
... valuable or pleafing , I shall offer my humble Nezr to your fociety with as much respectful zeal as to the greatest potentate on earth . THE SECOND ANNIVERSARY DISCOURSE , DELIVERED 24 FEBRUARY , 1785 THE PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE .
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... shall be my care to fuperintend the publication of your transactions , in which , if the learned in Europe have not raised their expectations too high , they will not , I believe , be disappointed : my own imperfect effays I always ...
... shall be my care to fuperintend the publication of your transactions , in which , if the learned in Europe have not raised their expectations too high , they will not , I believe , be disappointed : my own imperfect effays I always ...
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... fome difco- very in other sciences , which I shall impart with humility , and which you will , I doubt not , re- ceive with indulgence . THE FIFTH ANNIVERSARY DISCOURSE , DELIVERED 21 FEBRUARY , 1788 70 THE FOURTH DISCOURSE , & c .
... fome difco- very in other sciences , which I shall impart with humility , and which you will , I doubt not , re- ceive with indulgence . THE FIFTH ANNIVERSARY DISCOURSE , DELIVERED 21 FEBRUARY , 1788 70 THE FOURTH DISCOURSE , & c .
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... shall not scru- ple to call it by the general name of Tartary ; though I am conscious of using a term equally improper in the pronunciation and the applica- tion of it . Tartary then , which contained , according to PLINY , an ...
... shall not scru- ple to call it by the general name of Tartary ; though I am conscious of using a term equally improper in the pronunciation and the applica- tion of it . Tartary then , which contained , according to PLINY , an ...
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affert affured Afia Afiatick alfo almoſt alſo ancient Arabian Arabick Arabs arts becauſe believe beſt BRAHMA called characters China Chineſe cloſe compofitions confequently confider confiderable defcendants defcribed Deity Devanagari dialect diftinct diphthong diſcourſe diſtinguiſhed divine eaſtern Egypt eſpecially eſtabliſhed exiſtence expreffed facred faid fame fecond feems feven fhall fimilar fimple fince firft firſt fome fource fubject fublime fuch fuppofed fyftem fymbol Greeks himſelf Hindus hiſtory India Indian intereſting Iran itſelf laft language laſt learned leaſt lefs letters moft Mongals moſt muft muſt myſelf nations natural obfervations occafion origin Perfian philofophers pleaſed preſent preſerved purpoſe queſtion race racter raiſed reaſon religion repreſented reſearches reſemblance reſpect Sanferit ſcience Scythian ſeems ſeen ſeparate ſeveral ſhall ſhort ſhould ſome ſpirit ſtate ſtrong ſuch ſuppoſed ſyſtem Tartars themſelves theſe thofe thoſe thouſand tion tranflated univerfal uſed verſes VISHNU vowel weft whofe whoſe word Yemen Zend
Popular passages
Page 30 - The Sanscrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either; yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs, and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong, indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists.
Page 233 - The fundamental tenet of the Vedanti school consisted, not in denying the existence of matter, that is, of solidity, impenetrability, and extended figure, (to deny which would be lunacy) but in correcting the popular notion of it, and in contending, that it has no essence independent of mental perception, that existence and perceptibility are convertible terms...
Page iv - Portuguese were familiar to him. At an early period of life his application to Oriental Literature commenced : he...
Page 29 - ... names both for things and for actions; as it has happened in every country, that I can recollect, where the conquerors have not preserved their own tongue unmixed...
Page 131 - ... westward only, as it has been fancifully supposed, or eastward, as might with equal reason have been asserted, were expanded in all directions to all the regions of the world...
Page xx - ... the nurse of sciences, the inventress of delightful and useful arts, the scene of glorious actions, fertile in the productions of human genius, abounding in natural wonders, and infinitely diversified in the forms of religion and government, in the laws, manners, customs, and languages, as well as in the features and complexions of men. I could not help remarking how important and extensive a field was yet unexplored, and how many solid advantages unimproved...
Page 30 - ... so strong, indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which perhaps no longer exists. There is a similar reason, though not quite so forcible, for supposing that both the Gothick and the Celtick, though blended with a very different idiom, had the same origin with the Sanscrit; and the old Persian might be added to the same family, if this were the place for discussing any question concerning the antiquities of Persia.
Page 326 - In seven days from the present time, O thou tamer of enemies, the three worlds will be plunged in an ocean of death ; but, in the midst of the destroying waves, a large vessel sent by me for thy use shall stand before thee. Then...
Page 385 - Muselmans are already a sort of heterodox Christians: they are Christians, if LOCKE reasons justly, because they firmly believe the immaculate conception, divine character, and miracles of the MESSIAH; but they are heterodox, in denying vehemently his character of Son, and his equality, as God, with the Father, of whose unity and attributes they entertain and express the most awful ideas...
Page 247 - ... so that each original sound may be rendered invariably by one appropriated symbol, conformably to the natural order of articulation, and with a due regard to the primitive power of the Roman alphabet, which modern Europe has in general adopted.