I am quite ready to take the oriental learning at the valuation of the orientalists themselves. I have never found one among them who could deny that a single shelf of a good European library was worth the whole native literature of India and Arabia. India's Silent Revolution - Page 146by Fred Bohn Fisher, Gertrude Marvin Williams - 1919 - 192 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1853 - 678 pages
...learning at the value of ' the Orientalists themselves. I have never found one among ' them who would deny that a single shelf of a good European ' library...the whole native literature of India and ' Arabia. The intrinsic superiority of the Western literature is, ' indeed, fully admitted by those members of... | |
| Charles Hay Cameron - Education - 1853 - 220 pages
...Oriental learning at the valuation of the Orientalists themselves. I have never found one among them who could deny that a single shelf of a good European...worth the whole native literature of India and Arabia. The intrinsic superiority of the Western literature is, indeed, fully admitted by those members of... | |
| 1864 - 536 pages
...Oriental learning at the valuation of the Orientalists themselves. I have never found one among them who could deny that a single shelf of a good European...worth the whole native literature of India and Arabia. The intrinsic superiority of the Western literature is, indeed, fully admitted by those members of... | |
| 1864 - 938 pages
...Oriental learning at the valuation of the Orientalists themselves. I have never found one among them who could deny that a single shelf of a good European...worth the whole native literature of India and Arabia. The intrinsic superiority of the Western literature is, indeed, fully admitted by those members of... | |
| Christianity - 1872 - 606 pages
...West ; and he beat down all opposition by his brilliant and impetuous attack upon Orientalism. He said that a single shelf of a good European library was worth the whole native literature of India and * Indian Musalmans, p. 143. Arabia ; that it was not decent to use the public funds for bribing the... | |
| Sir Alfred C. Lyall - China - 1882 - 362 pages
..."West ; and he beat down all opposition by his brilliant and impetuous attack upon Orientalism. He said that a single shelf of a good European library was...worth the whole native literature of India and Arabia ; that it was not decent to use the public funds for bribing the Indian youth to read books full of... | |
| Protap Chunder Mozoomdar - Brahma-samaj - 1887 - 572 pages
...their mark when Lord Macaulay, as their mouthpiece, declared with his fatal facility for exaggeration, that " a single shelf of a good European library was...the whole native literature of India and Arabia." Sanskrit, Persian, and Arabic, held in such supreme reverence, but a few years before, as the only... | |
| Demetrius Charles Boulger - Generals - 1892 - 236 pages
...Oriental learning at the valuation of the Orientalists themselves. I have never found one among them who could deny that a single shelf of a good European...worth the whole native literature of India and Arabia. The intrinsic superiority of the Western literature is indeed fully admitted by those members of the... | |
| India - 1894 - 110 pages
...Oriental learning at the valuation of the Orientalists themselves. I have never found one among them who could deny that a single shelf of a good European...worth the whole native literature of India and Arabia. The intrinsic superiority of the Western literature is, indeed, fully admitted by those members of... | |
| Henry Morris - Governors - 1896 - 186 pages
...like Sanskrit, Arabic, and Persian ; but there can be no controverting the fact asserted by Macaulay that " a single shelf of a good European library was...the whole native literature of India and Arabia." In advocating a language, to be used as the means of instruction he eloquently pleaded for English.... | |
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