The Cambridge History of English Literature, Volume 12Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller University Press, 1970 - English literature |
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... language was soon learnt , and it was all - sufficient . The peculiarity of this language , together with its hackneyed use , was enough to deter some minds , as the outspoken baptist minister , John Foster , complained in his essay On ...
... language was soon learnt , and it was all - sufficient . The peculiarity of this language , together with its hackneyed use , was enough to deter some minds , as the outspoken baptist minister , John Foster , complained in his essay On ...
Page 287
... language of theology and the jargon of the pulpit : ' into that common language , in which we think and feel , all truth must be translated , if we would think and feel respecting it at once rightly , clearly , and vividly . ' He had ...
... language of theology and the jargon of the pulpit : ' into that common language , in which we think and feel , all truth must be translated , if we would think and feel respecting it at once rightly , clearly , and vividly . ' He had ...
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... language was held until 1895 by Sir Thomas Francis Wade , who presented to the university his valuable library of Chinese literature . The first Englishman who worked at Sanskrit to any purpose was Sir Charles Wilkins . He began his ...
... language was held until 1895 by Sir Thomas Francis Wade , who presented to the university his valuable library of Chinese literature . The first Englishman who worked at Sanskrit to any purpose was Sir Charles Wilkins . He began his ...
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