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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... those tongues : yet the mere science of words is , af- ter all , but the outline of language ; whilst the colouring and expreffion are only to be found in the virtues and the genius , in the vices and the follies of a people . In the ...
... those tongues : yet the mere science of words is , af- ter all , but the outline of language ; whilst the colouring and expreffion are only to be found in the virtues and the genius , in the vices and the follies of a people . In the ...
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... those distant periods , feems however above the powers of man ; and to have no other tendency , than unprofitably to bewilder the human understanding . I shall avoid therefore thofe unknown regions , through which there appears no guide ...
... those distant periods , feems however above the powers of man ; and to have no other tendency , than unprofitably to bewilder the human understanding . I shall avoid therefore thofe unknown regions , through which there appears no guide ...
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... those states many different dialects prevailed ; the principal of which were the Hemyaret and the Koreifh . The firft , though the language of the most powerful of the Arabian princes , appears however to have been little cultivated by ...
... those states many different dialects prevailed ; the principal of which were the Hemyaret and the Koreifh . The firft , though the language of the most powerful of the Arabian princes , appears however to have been little cultivated by ...
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... those days . It was cuftomary for the great poets to fix , upon the gate of the temple , diftichs , or longer compofitions , as a general challenge against the next meeting of the Ocadh affembly . Lebid had put up a couplet there ...
... those days . It was cuftomary for the great poets to fix , upon the gate of the temple , diftichs , or longer compofitions , as a general challenge against the next meeting of the Ocadh affembly . Lebid had put up a couplet there ...
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... those provin ces where they were spoken : the principal of which were the Parfi or Farfi , and the Pehlavi . The first was the dialect of Farfistan ( Persia Proper ) , and had an extensive range over the most civilized of the lower ...
... those provin ces where they were spoken : the principal of which were the Parfi or Farfi , and the Pehlavi . The first was the dialect of Farfistan ( Persia Proper ) , and had an extensive range over the most civilized of the lower ...
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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