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" We have to educate a people who cannot at present be educated by means of their mother-tongue. We must teach them some foreign language. The claims of our own language it is hardly necessary to recapitulate. "
Soldiering in India - Page 67
by Robert George Hobbes - 1893
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Continental India: Travelling Sketches and Historical ..., Volume 2

James William Massie - 1840 - 500 pages
...of Anglican learning. The following paragraphs are ascribed to his pen. " How then stands the case ? We have to educate a people who cannot at present be educated by means of their mother-tongue ; we must teach them some foreign language. The claims of our own language it is hardly...
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The Baptist Record, and Biblical Repository, Volume 4

1847 - 798 pages
...the knowledge of English amongst the people of Hindostan. He says: — " How, then, stands the case? We have to educate a people who cannot at present be educated by means of their mother-tongue ; we must teach them some foreign language. The claims of our own language it is hardly...
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Hand-book of Bengal missions, in connexion with the Church of England [&c.].

James Long - 1848 - 540 pages
...and European literature among the people of Hindustan. He says : — " How, then, stands the case ? We have to educate a people who cannot at present be educated by means of their mothertongue; we must teach them some foreign language. The claims of our own language it is hardly...
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Address to Parliament on the Duties of Great Britain to India: In Respect of ...

Charles Hay Cameron - 1853 - 220 pages
...philosophy, the relative position of the two nations is nearly the same. " How, then, stands the case ? We have to educate a people who cannot at present be educated by means of their mother-tongue. We must teach them some foreign language. The claims of our own language it is hardly...
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Temple Bar, Volume 79

George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1887 - 628 pages
...following purport — or so much of it, at least, as we are concerned with : — " ' How stands the case ? We have to educate a people who cannot at present...pre-eminent even among the languages of the West. . . . Whoever knows that language has ready access to all the vast intellectual wealth which all the...
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Macmillan's Magazine, Volume 10

1864 - 938 pages
...philosophy the relative position of the two nations is nearly the same. " How, then, stands the case ? We have to educate a people who cannot at present be educated by means of their mother-tongue. We must teach them some foreign language The claims of our own language it is hardly...
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Macmillan's Magazine, Volume 10

1864 - 536 pages
...philosophy the relative position of the two nations is nearly the same. " How, then, stands the case ? We have to educate a people who cannot at present be educated by means of their mother-tongue. We must teach them some foreign language. The claims of our own language it is hardly...
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The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay, Volume 1

George Otto Trevelyan - 1876 - 502 pages
...he adopted and defended the views of the English section in the Committee. " How stands the case ? We have to educate a people who cannot at present be educated by means of their mother-tongue. We must teach them some foreign language. The claims of our own language it is hardly...
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Leipsic Edition of the Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay, Volume 1

George Otto Trevelyan - 1876 - 652 pages
...which he adopted and defended the views of the English section in the Committee. " How stands the case? We have to educate a people who cannot at present be educated by means of their mother-tongue. We must teach them some foreign language. The claims of our own language it is hardly...
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The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay, Volume 1

George Otto Trevelyan - 1876 - 430 pages
...means of their mother tougne. We must teach them some foreign langnage. The claims of our own langnage it is hardly necessary to recapitulate. It stands pre-eminent even among the langnages of the West. It abounds with works of imagination not inferior to the noblest which Greece...
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