 | 1853 - 678 pages
...their proficiency in the Eastern tongues. ' I am quite ready to take the Oriental 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 was worth the whole native literature of... | |
 | Charles Hay Cameron - Education - 1853 - 220 pages
...conversed both here and at home with men distinguished by their proficiency in the Eastern tongues. I am quite ready to take the Oriental learning at the...worth the whole native literature of India and Arabia. The intrinsic superiority of the Western literature is, indeed, fully admitted by those members of... | |
 | George Otto Trevelyan - Civil service - 1864 - 472 pages
...conversed both here and at home with men distinguished by their proficiency in the Eastern tongues. I am quite ready to take the Oriental learning at the...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
...conversed both here and at home with men distinguished by their proficiency in the Eastern tongues. I am quite ready to take the Oriental learning at the...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
...conversed both here and at home with men distinguished by their proficiency in the Eastern tongues. I am quite ready to take the Oriental learning at the...worth the whole native literature of India and Arabia. The intrinsic superiority of the Western literature is, indeed, fully admitted by those members of... | |
 | George Otto Trevelyan - Civil service - 1866 - 378 pages
...conversed both here and at home with men distinguished by their proficiency in the Eastern tongues. I am quite ready to take the Oriental learning at the...valuation of the Orientalists themselves. I have never ftnrad one among them who could deny that a single shelf of a good European library was worth the whole... | |
 | 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 - Governors - 1892 - 238 pages
...conversed both here and at home with men distinguished by their proficiency in the Eastern tongues. I am quite ready to take the Oriental learning at the...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... | |
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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. 
