 ... merit is that of exhibiting a genuine picture, by a native hand, of Malayan manners and dispositions, more forcibly, and, it may be said, more dramatically represented, than they could be drawn by the pencil of any stranger.  Memoirs of a Malayan Family - الصفحة iiبواسطة Nakhoda Muda, 'La-uddı̄n - 1830 - عدد الصفحات: 88عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
 | 1861 - عدد الصفحات: 828
...ancestors, the Faxons, Danes, and Northmen. Mr. Marsden also commends the book for its style, as " affording a specimen of simple narrative; a style...with the romantic and extravagant tales so prevalent among these and other eastern people." Dr. Ley den's learned essay on the "Languages and Literature... | |
 | American cyclopaedia - 1861 - عدد الصفحات: 804
...ancestors, the Saxons, Danes, and Northmen. Mr. Marsden also commends the book for its style, as " affording a specimen of simple narrative ; a style...with the romantic and extravagant tales so prevalent among these and other eastern people." Dr. Ley den's learned essay on the "Languages and Literature... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1861 - عدد الصفحات: 812
...Marsden also commends the book for its style, as " affording a specimen of simple narrative ; a stylo of which some writers have thought the Malays incapable,...with the romantic and extravagant tales so prevalent among these and other eastern people." Dr. Leyden's learned essay on the "Languages and Literature... | |
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