Journal of the American Oriental Society, Volume 10American Oriental Society., 1880 "Proceedings" or "Select minutes of meetings" are included in each volume (except v. 3, 12). |
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Page clxxxii - EDKINS.— CHINA'S PLACE IN PHILOLOGY. An attempt to show that the Languages of Europe and Asia have a common origin.
Page lxiv - Committee recommend that this memorial be entered upon the records of the Society, and that a copy be sent to the family of Mr.
Page clxxxiv - Hindu Law. Principally with reference to such portions of it as concern the Administration of Justice in the Courts in India. By SIR THOMAS STRANGE, late Chief Justice of Madras. 2 vols.
Page cxx - Salisbury, in the chair. After the reading of the minutes of the last meeting, the report of the Treasurer was read, referred to an auditing Committee, audited, and accepted.
Page xxiv - Vol. III. The Vedas : Opinions of their Authors, and of later Indian Writers, on their Origin, Inspiration, and Authority.
Page clxxxvii - Vol. V. Contributions to a Knowledge of the Cosmogony, Mythology, Religious ideas, Life and Manners of the Indians in the Vedic Age. 8vo. pp. xvi. 492, cloth, 1870. 21».
Page clxxxvi - Twenty-fifth, twenty-sixth annual report to the council of the city of Manchester on the working of the Public Free Libraries.
Page lxxxiv - Weber took up the nakahatras in his essays published in the Transactions of the Berlin Academy for 1860 and 1861, making a like thorough exhibition and discussion of their character and aspect as exhibited in the Chinese literature. Although we have no right to hope that it would cast valuable light on the ultimate origin of the institution, it would at least lay a solid foundation, such as is now painfully wanting, for the study of this important element in the ancient Chinese science. In connection...
Page 194 - as usual in all later MSS." is likely to mislead. There is a great difference between the style of the Sinaitic MS. and that of the Alexandrine, the Ephraem, and later MSS. generally, in respect to the mode of indicating the beginning of paragraphs. In the Sinaitic, the initial letter, which slightly projects, and often does not project at all, is no larger than the rest, a peculiarity found in but a very few existing MSS., and those the oldest...
Page xx - A SHORT PRACTICAL GRAMMAR OF THE TIBETAN LANGUAGE, with special Reference to the Spoken Dialects.