The Calcutta Christian Observer, 4. köide1835 |
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... Persian in our public offices , but also as mak- ing them acquainted with a language in which there exists not less than a hundred thousand volumes of acknowledged utility , and in which consequently information of all kinds is ...
... Persian in our public offices , but also as mak- ing them acquainted with a language in which there exists not less than a hundred thousand volumes of acknowledged utility , and in which consequently information of all kinds is ...
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... Persian , Urdú , and Hin- dui , and live entirely under the eye and superintendence of Mr. Moore . I hope great things from this Seminary ; and surely , at least , I may hope that our labour on them will not be in vain , but that ...
... Persian , Urdú , and Hin- dui , and live entirely under the eye and superintendence of Mr. Moore . I hope great things from this Seminary ; and surely , at least , I may hope that our labour on them will not be in vain , but that ...
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... Persian characters . " The object sought to be attained , by those who have brought forward the project , is to persuade the hundred millions of men , who compose the different nations , and speak the different dialects of India , to ...
... Persian characters . " The object sought to be attained , by those who have brought forward the project , is to persuade the hundred millions of men , who compose the different nations , and speak the different dialects of India , to ...
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... Persian Character . They know English as their language of education , and Hindustání as their ver- nacular tongue ; but the only character with which they are acquainted is the Roman , and this they employ to write both languages ...
... Persian Character . They know English as their language of education , and Hindustání as their ver- nacular tongue ; but the only character with which they are acquainted is the Roman , and this they employ to write both languages ...
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... Persian , at least in those courts near the Presidency ; and that , when before an English judge , as occurred a few days ago in the Sud- der Dewanny , the parties on both sides are represented by English plea- ders , the necessity for ...
... Persian , at least in those courts near the Presidency ; and that , when before an English judge , as occurred a few days ago in the Sud- der Dewanny , the parties on both sides are represented by English plea- ders , the necessity for ...
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Page 394 - Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard. Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world.
Page 362 - Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
Page 460 - Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.
Page 88 - But if any man think that he behaveth himself uncomely toward his virgin, if she pass the flower of her age, and need so require, let him do what he will, he sinneth not : let them marry.
Page 605 - Yea, so have I strived to preach the gospel, not where Christ was named, lest I should build upon another man's foundation: but, as it is written, To whom he was not spoken of, they shall see : and they that have not heard shall understand.
Page 260 - Neither was there any among them that lacked: for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the prices of the things that were sold, and laid them down at the apostles' feet: and distribution was made unto every man according as he had need.
Page 121 - This also we humbly and earnestly beg, that human things may not prejudice such as are divine ; neither that from the unlocking of the gates of sense, and the kindling of a greater natural light, anything of incredulity, or intellectual night, may arise in our minds towards divine mysteries.
Page 396 - Though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more. And unto the Jews, I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews...
Page 260 - And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any of them that aught of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common.
Page 121 - ... towards divine mysteries. But rather, that by our mind thoroughly cleansed and purged from fancy and vanities, and yet subject and perfectly given up to the divine oracles, there may be given unto faith the things that are faith's.