 Hindustan and Persia, but to preserve and extend his acquaintance with the Greek and Latin classics, with the French and Italian, with all the elder and more distinguished English writers, and with the current and popular literature of the day, both in...  Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bombay - Page 87by Asiatic Society of Bombay - 1862Full view - About this book
 | James Augustus St. John - 1832 - 430 pages
...duties since the age of-eighteen, he has found time, not only to cultivate the languages of Hindostan and Persia, but to preserve and extend his acquaintance...common subject of surprise with his friends, at what hour of the day or night he found time for the acquisition of knowledge. His policy, so far as India... | |
 | Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland - 1834 - 502 pages
...with all the elder and more distinguished English writers, and with the current and popular history of the day, both in poetry, history, politics, and...is a common subject of surprise with his friends, in what hours of the day or night he finds time for the acquisition of knowledge. No government in... | |
 | Thomas Taylor (biographer.) - 1836 - 550 pages
...and manners and conversation of the most amiable and interesting -character. With a temperance almost amounting to rigid abstinence, he is fond of society, and it is a common subject of surprise at what hours of the day or night he finds time for the acquisition of knowledge. No governor in India... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - 1844 - 1184 pages
...accomplishments, and notwithstanding a temperance amounting to rigid ai>stinence, he i» fond of society ; ana it is a common subject of surprise with his friends at what hours of the day or uight he finds time for the acquisition ol knowledge. His policy, so far as India is concerned, appeared... | |
 | James Augustus St. John - 1859 - 396 pages
...duties since the age of eighteen, he has found time, not only to cultivate the languages of Hindostan and Persia, but to preserve and extend his acquaintance...common subject of surprise with his friends, at what hour of the day or night he found time for the acquisition of knowledge. His policy, so far as India... | |
 | Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland - 1861 - 584 pages
...with all the elder and more distinguished English writers, and with the current and popular history of the day, both in poetry, history, politics, and...is a common subject of surprise with his friends, in what hours of the day or night he finds time for the acquisition of knowledge. " His policy, so... | |
 | Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland - 1861 - 698 pages
...English writers, and with the current and popular history of the day, both in poetry, history, polities, and political economy. With these remarkable accomplishments,...is a common subject of surprise with his friends, in what hours of the day or night he finds time for the acquisition of knowledge. " His policy, so... | |
 | James Ewing Ritchie - 1866 - 936 pages
...to cultivate the languages of Hindostán and Persia, but to preserve and extend his acquaintance in the Greek and Latin classics, with the French and...is a common subject of surprise with his friends, in what hours of the day or night he found time for the acquisition of knowledge." From Poonah, Mr.... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1875 - 316 pages
...with all the elder and more distinguished English writers, and with the current and popular history of the day, both in poetry, history, politics, and...of society, and it is a common subject of surprise, in what hours of the day or night he finds time for the acquisition of knowledge." Such were the accomplishments... | |
 | Sir John William Kaye - 1889 - 692 pages
...to cultivate the languages of Hindustan and Persia, but to preserve and extend his acquaintance in the Greek and Latin classics, with the French and...it is a common subject of surprise with his friends in what hours of the day or night he found time for the acquisition of knowledge.' shape and then another.... | |
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