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" European or American to acquire a living oriental language, root and branch, and make it his own, is quite a different thing from his acquiring a cognate language of the West, or any of the dead languages, as they are studied in the schools. One circumstance... "
The London Magazine - Page 272
1827
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An Account of the American Baptist Mission to the Burman Empire: In a Series ...

Ann Hasseltine Judson - Baptists - 1827 - 478 pages
...living oriental language, root and branch, and make it his own, is quite a different thing from his acquiring a cognate language of the west, or any of...circumstance may serve to illustrate this. I once bad occasion to devote a few months to the study of the French. I have now been above two years engaged...
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Memoir of Mrs. Ann H. Judson, Late Missionary to Burmah: Including a History ...

James Davis Knowles - Baptists - 1829 - 340 pages
...living oriental language, root and branch, and make it his own, is quite a different thing from his acquiring a cognate language of the west, or any of...French. I have now been above two years engaged in theBurman. If I were to choose between aBurman and a French book, to be examined in, without previous...
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History of American Missions to the Heathen, from Their Commencement to the ...

Joseph Tracy - Black people - 1840 - 764 pages
...living Oriental language, root and branch, and make it his own, is quite a different thing from his acquiring a cognate language of the west, or any of the dead languages, as they are studied in the schoots. When we take up a western language, the similarity in the characters, in very many terms,...
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Memoir of Ann H. Judson: Late Missionary to Burmah; Including a History of ...

James Davis Knowles - Baptists - 1844 - 426 pages
...living oriental language, root and branch, and make it his own, is quite a different thing from his acquiring a cognate language of the west, or any of...have now been above two years engaged in the Burman. If I were to choose between a Burman and a French book, to be examined in, without previous study,...
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A History of American Baptist Missions in Asia, Africa, Europe and North America

William Gammell - Baptists - 1849 - 406 pages
...living oriental language, root and branch, and make it his own, is quite a different thing from his acquiring a cognate language of the West, or any of...months to the study of the French. I have now been engaged two years and a half in the Burman. But if I were to choose between a Burman and a French book,...
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A History of American Baptist Missions in Asia, Africa, Europe and North ...

William Gammell - Missions - 1850 - 396 pages
...living oriental language, root and branch, and make it his own, is quite a different thing from his acquiring a cognate language of the West, .or any...months to the study of the French. I have now been engaged two years and a half in the Burman. But if I were to choose between a Burman and a French book,...
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The Calcutta Review, Volume 14

India - 1850 - 612 pages
...living Oriental language, root and branch, and make it his own, is quite a different thing from his acquiring a cognate language of the West, or any of...schools. One circumstance may serve to illustrate this. I ouce had occasion to devote a few months to the study i! French; I have now been above two years engaged...
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A Memoir of the Life and Labors of the Rev. Adoniram Judson, Volume 1

Francis Wayland - Missionaries - 1853 - 550 pages
...living oriental language, root and branch, and make it his own, is quite a different thing from his acquiring a cognate language of the West, or any of...to illustrate this. I once had occasion to devote about two months to the study of the French. I have now been above two years engaged on the Burman...
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A Memoir of the Life and Labors of the Rev. Adoniram Judson. D.D.

Francis Wayland - Baptists - 1853 - 564 pages
...living oriental language, root and branch, and make it his own, is quite a different thing from his acquiring a cognate language of the West, or any of...to illustrate this. I once had occasion to devote about two months to the study of the French. I have now been above two years engaged on the Burman...
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The Voice of pity for South America [afterw.] A Voice for South ..., Volume 8

South American missionary society - 1861 - 328 pages
...living oriental language, root and branch, and make it his own, is quite a different thing from his acquiring a cognate language of the west, or any of...have now been above two years engaged in the Burman. If I were to choose between a Burman and a French book, to be examined in, without previous study,...
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