The Monthly Review, Or, Literary JournalR. Griffiths, 1818 - Books |
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... language he acquired with great profi- ciency , and among whom he appeared more as an observer than as an active ... language a memoir , which Sir James Mackintosh is here said to have described as the most comprehensive and minute ...
... language he acquired with great profi- ciency , and among whom he appeared more as an observer than as an active ... language a memoir , which Sir James Mackintosh is here said to have described as the most comprehensive and minute ...
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... language ; for they carry us from the highest to the lowest forms of speech with a rapidity to be equalled only by the ascent and descent of Bonaparte , or the culmina- tion and declension of a comet . And , as their minds upon his ...
... language ; for they carry us from the highest to the lowest forms of speech with a rapidity to be equalled only by the ascent and descent of Bonaparte , or the culmina- tion and declension of a comet . And , as their minds upon his ...
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... language , because his interpreter Kisseleff ( one of the Japanese sailors ) could read only the former . Provisions of every kind were immediately sent to the ship : but , as to an- swering his letters in the common language , the ...
... language , because his interpreter Kisseleff ( one of the Japanese sailors ) could read only the former . Provisions of every kind were immediately sent to the ship : but , as to an- swering his letters in the common language , the ...
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