Réflexions sur l'étude des langues asiatiques, adresséesE. Weber, 1832 - 205 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 164 - ... in which she has long held the foremost rank. The interesting relations, moreover, in which this country stands with the East, affording as they do the best opportunities for carrying such a project into effect, and at the same time promising both to England and its Eastern possessions the most beneficial results, may be mentioned as additional motives for engaging in such an undertaking. 2. The advantages likely to be derived from a more extensive cultivation of Oriental literature in this country...
الصفحة 164 - Scriptures, particularly those of the Old Testament, abound in modes of expression, and allusions to customs, in many cases imperfectly understood in Europe, but still prevailing in the East. That light confessedly derived from the Arabic and other sister dialects of the Hebrew, has been thrown on the text of Scripture, by the Rabbinical and other commentators...
الصفحة 169 - ... public eye. 17. The Committee confidently expect that valuable translations will be obtained from Asia, as they feel assured that many civil and military officers residing there, have hitherto been deterred from translating Oriental works, by their having no opportunity for publishing the result of their labours in England. As that opportunity is now offered, it is hoped that they will be stimulated by the desire of improvement in the Asiatic languages, and the prospect of acquiring celebrity...
الصفحة 168 - Individuals or institutions subscribing five guineas annually, will be entitled to common-paper copies of any of the works published by the Committee, to the amount of their subscriptions, at half the price paid for them by Non-subscribers. 9th. A General Meeting, to which every Subscriber and Member of the Committee resident in the United Kingdom...
الصفحة 163 - THE extensive and valuable collections of Oriental MSS. which are deposited in our public and private libraries , have long attracted the attention of the learned of this and other countries; and it has been suggested that some means, offering a reasonable prospect of success, may be devised, by which the public may be put in possession of all that is valuable in Eastern literature, and an opportunity be presented for...
الصفحة 166 - These translations are to be accompanied by the original text, and such illustrations as may be considered necessary. By the publication of the original text it is intended to multiply copies of such works as are scarce, and to furnish students at a moderate expense with correct copies of the best Asiatic works, to which they might not otherwise have access.
الصفحة 166 - The possession of a more intimate acquaintance with the history, geography, statistics, laws, and usages of that portion of our empire, must be productive of good both to the governors and the governed ; and to procure means for obtaining information on these subjects is one of the principal designs of this prospectus. " 10. The object proposed is, to publish, free of expense to the authors, translations of the whole or parts of such works in the oriental languages as a committee of orientalists...
الصفحة 168 - ... 14. This committee now appeal to the liberality of the public for such pecuniary aid as will enable them to effect the objects proposed in this prospectus. The sums contributed will be appropriated exclusively to the execution of the plan above detailed, and the accounts will be examined, and a report made annually to the subscribers of the application of the funds, by an auditor, who is to be elected by and from the body of the subscribers. A report of the progress made in translating and printing...
الصفحة 164 - Scriptures, written by the Bishops and other learned members of the Oriental churches, together with MS. works of the greatest value to Divines, on Ecclesiastical History and Divinity, composed by the fathers of the Syrian and Arabian churches. The collection also of the late Mr. Rich, now placed in the British Museum by the liberality of Parliament, contains perhaps the most valuable MSS. of the Syriac Scriptures now in existence ; and it is of the greatest importance to Biblical criticism that...
الصفحة 68 - ... mesurées de l'original. Le coloris du style est surtout admirable : il respire en même temps la majesté législative , et je ne sais quelle simplicité sainte et patriarcale. Nous sommes transportés , comme par enchantement , dans les siècles, les mœurs , et la sphère d'idées , qui ont concouru à mettre en vigueur ces lois religieuses et sociales, lesquelles à leur tour ont dominé une grande nation pendant des milliers d'années.