The Quarterly Review, Volume 36William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1827 |
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... advantage of the presence of some gentlemen whose testimony he considered of eminent value , to bring the subject of the Mohawk translation , then nearly completed , into discussion . A proposal was made , and uni- versally acceded to ...
... advantage of the presence of some gentlemen whose testimony he considered of eminent value , to bring the subject of the Mohawk translation , then nearly completed , into discussion . A proposal was made , and uni- versally acceded to ...
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... advantage , let us look to the version in the Calmuck language - one which , to use the words of the Secretary himself , has acquired a very interesting character , and promises eventually to rank with the most credi- Our readers are ...
... advantage , let us look to the version in the Calmuck language - one which , to use the words of the Secretary himself , has acquired a very interesting character , and promises eventually to rank with the most credi- Our readers are ...
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... advantages of a literary education ; ' totally unacquainted with the original languages of the scriptures , and having a knowledge of the Calmuck language which their eulogists can only venture to call ' pretty complete ' ! - Upon the ...
... advantages of a literary education ; ' totally unacquainted with the original languages of the scriptures , and having a knowledge of the Calmuck language which their eulogists can only venture to call ' pretty complete ' ! - Upon the ...
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... advantages which youths trained from their infancy to grammatical studies , and at the same time habituated to speak the various languages of India , must necessarily possess beyond those who , perhaps , com- mencing grammatical studies ...
... advantages which youths trained from their infancy to grammatical studies , and at the same time habituated to speak the various languages of India , must necessarily possess beyond those who , perhaps , com- mencing grammatical studies ...
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... advantage of being able to drive the nail home , in the literal sense , and to make a pulpit before they preached in it . ' It may be true that , under such a system , the learning of the * Nor dost thou only degrade them , or remit To ...
... advantage of being able to drive the nail home , in the literal sense , and to make a pulpit before they preached in it . ' It may be true that , under such a system , the learning of the * Nor dost thou only degrade them , or remit To ...
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