A Dissertation on the Languages, Literature, and Manners of Eastern Nations: Originally Prefixed to a Dictionary, Persian, Arabic, and EnglishPrinted at the Clarendon Press, 1778 - 288 pages |
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... Some points will of confequence be touched , which , at first view , may have no apparent tendency to advance the acquifition of those tongues : yet the mere science of words is , af- ter all , but the outline of language ; whilst the ...
... Some points will of confequence be touched , which , at first view , may have no apparent tendency to advance the acquifition of those tongues : yet the mere science of words is , af- ter all , but the outline of language ; whilst the ...
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... some ob fervations on the modern idiom of Perfia ; and to point out the origin of that fingular and in- timate connection which it has long main- tained with the language of Arabia . Early in Perfia , as in every wide extended empire ...
... some ob fervations on the modern idiom of Perfia ; and to point out the origin of that fingular and in- timate connection which it has long main- tained with the language of Arabia . Early in Perfia , as in every wide extended empire ...
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... Some retired to the ifle of Ormuz ; whence they afterwards embarked for Diu ; and at length , towards the close of the eighth century , they obtained permiffion to fettle in Surat , and other places in the territory of Guzerat : where ...
... Some retired to the ifle of Ormuz ; whence they afterwards embarked for Diu ; and at length , towards the close of the eighth century , they obtained permiffion to fettle in Surat , and other places in the territory of Guzerat : where ...
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... Some of those famed events , it is not impof- fible too , might have been the mere descents of pirates or private adventurers ; either with the view to plunder , or to retaliate fome fi- milar expedition of the Greeks ; who appear very ...
... Some of those famed events , it is not impof- fible too , might have been the mere descents of pirates or private adventurers ; either with the view to plunder , or to retaliate fome fi- milar expedition of the Greeks ; who appear very ...
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... Some , which concerned not the reli- gion of the Magi , fell into the hands of those who admired and preferved them . The Zefer namé , a dialogue on government and morality between Noufhirvan the Juft , king of Perfia , and his vizir ...
... Some , which concerned not the reli- gion of the Magi , fell into the hands of those who admired and preferved them . The Zefer namé , a dialogue on government and morality between Noufhirvan the Juft , king of Perfia , and his vizir ...
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Abydenus Afia Afiatic againſt alfo almoſt alſo amongſt ancient appear Arabians Arabic Arabic languages Artaxerxes Mnemon becauſe Berofus Bryant called chronology circumftances confequence confidered cuſtom Cuthites D'Herbelot Darab Darius dialects diſcovered diſtinction dynaſty Eaft Eaſt Eaſtern empire eſtabliſhed Europe faid fame fays feems fenfe fent fhall fignifies fimilar fingular firft firſt flave fome foon ftate ftill fubjects fuch fuperior fuppofed fupport furniſh fyftem greateſt Grecian Greece Greeks Hebrew Herodotus hiftorians himſelf hiſtory houſe impoffible Jengiz Khan Khalif language leaft learned author learned gentleman leaſt moft Mohammed moſt muft muſt Mythology neral Noah Oannes obferved occafion origin Perfian perfon poffibly prefent prince reaſon reign reſemblance reſpect Scythians SECT ſeems Septuagint ſhall ſhould Simurgh ſome ſtate ſtill ſuch Sultan ſuppoſed Syria ſyſtem Tahmuras Tamerlane Tartar themſelves theſe thofe thoſe thouſand tion tranflated uſed Vizir Weft whilft whofe whoſe wiſh words writers Xerxes
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Page 412 - Therefore is the name of it called Babel ; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth : and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
Page 303 - Moreover from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year even unto the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes the king, that is, twelve years, I and my brethren have not eaten the bread of the governor.
Page 306 - Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, the Lord God of heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth ; and he hath charged me to build him an house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah.
Page 435 - Look ye, gentlemen, cries Peter in a rage, to convince you what a couple of blind, positive, ignorant, wilful puppies you are, I will use but this plain argument; by G — , it is true, good, natural mutton as any in Leadenhall market ; and G — confound you both eternally, if you offer to believe otherwise.
Page 422 - All this, he says, was an allegorical description of nature. For the whole universe consisting of moisture, and animals being continually generated therein; the deity...
Page 422 - Pluto, divided the darkness, and separated the heavens from the earth, and reduced the universe to order. But the animals so recently created, not being able to bear the prevalence of light, died.
Page 421 - They had one body but two heads: the one that of a man, the other of a woman: and likewise in their several organs both male and female. Other human figures were to be seen with the legs and horns of goats: some had horses...
Page 54 - Numerous as the fands on the more," is an idea which, in all times, has been annexed to defeated armies : and the Grecian writers, to dignify their country, may have turned the hyperbole into hiftoric fact ; and fwelled the Thoufands of the Perfian Satrap into the Millions of the Perfian King.
Page 382 - But they had efcaped better, if ,the moft fafhionable of the French poets had not, at the fame time, been their beft critic. A LUCKY word in a verfe, which founds well and every body gets by heart, goes further than a volume of juft...
Page 293 - which they had neither feen, nor heard, nor received " upon the authority of another perfon : proceeding " merely upon this principle, that they fhould be moil " likely to pleafe people's fancy, by having recourfe to