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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1856. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER Xn.' 1. THE LANGUAGE. The laborer had at length reached his chosen field. It stretched out, a wretched, sterile, neglected scene before his earnest gaze, and his heart burned with desire to be at work. But the implements of labor were yet wanting. The acquisition of one of the most difficult languages ever used by men, lay between him and the first stroke of missionary service.. Among the various families of Indian tongues, the Burmese stood alone, having no marked affinities with any which had become known to Europeans. He had neither grammar nor dictionary to aid his first steps; nor was a teacher to be found who understood both Burman and English. Nor would such a familiarity with the language, as might suffice for the transaction of ordinary business, or for mere literary research, answer his purpose. The task he set for himself was such a command of it, as would render it an instrument no less pliant to his will, in every variety of mental process, than his mother-tongue. To perform the whole work of a pioneer missionary, in this peculiar sphere of labor, he must become an author in the language, a popular preacher, a metaphysical reasoner, a translator of the Scriptures. All this he accomplished, and, in every particular, with preeminent success.--Which of our best German scholars, in this country, would undertake such exploits in that kindred tongue; for instance, to conduct philosophic debates with the disciples of Hegel or Schelling, or to compose religious treatises, or to prepare a new version of the Scriptures, for the use of our transatlantic cousins? In the Burman, the difficulty was incomparably greater. A writer in the Calcutta Review thus speak of its characteristics: "Some languages, however, --and the Burman is one, --seem to moul...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781150719257
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 124
  • Spine Width: 7 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1150719257
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 236 gr


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