 | John Rippingham - 1816 - 190 pages
...their sentiments ; the servants of the company received letters which they could not read, and were ambitious of gaining titles of which they could not...discovered, that they must apply themselves to the study oftb 103 Persian language in which all the letters from the Indian princes were written. A few meu... | |
 | Sir William Jones - 1823 - 258 pages
...their sentiments ; the servants of the Company received letters which they could not read, and were ambitious of gaining titles of which they could not...Persian language, in which all the letters from the Indian princes were written. A few men of parts and taste, who resided in Bengal, have since amused... | |
 | Francis Lister Hawks - 1838 - 542 pages
...their sentiments; the servants of the Company received letters which they could not read, and were ambitious of gaining titles of which they could not...Persian language, in which all the letters from the Indian princes were written. A few men of parts and taste, who resided in Bengal, have since amused... | |
 | American Oriental Society - 1851 - 732 pages
...their sentiments; the servants of the Company received letters which they could not read, and were ambitious of gaining titles, of which they could not...Persian language, in which all the letters from the Indian princes were written. "f * Ou the first establishment of the University in Cambridge, Oriental... | |
 | Bernard S. Cohn - 1996 - 216 pages
...of Europe.17 Jones wrote: The servants of the company received letters they could not read and were ambitious of gaining titles of which they could not...apply themselves to the study of the Persian language. . . . The languages of Asia will now perhaps be studied with uncommon ardour; they are known to be... | |
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... it was found highly dangerous to employ the natives as interpreters, upon whose fidelity they could not depend ; and it was at last discovered that they must apply themselves to the study of the Persian language, in which all the letters from the... 