Address to Parliament on the Duties of Great Britain to India: In Respect of the Education of the Natives, and Their Official Employment |
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... vernacular languages , and as a means of throwing light upon the movements of the human race before the com- mencement of history ( though , in this latter in- quiry , Benares and Calcutta will hardly emulate the fame of Bonn or of ...
... vernacular languages , and as a means of throwing light upon the movements of the human race before the com- mencement of history ( though , in this latter in- quiry , Benares and Calcutta will hardly emulate the fame of Bonn or of ...
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... languages of law , nor as the languages of religion , have the Sanscrit and Arabic any peculiar claim to our ... vernacular dialects of the country , to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western 78.
... languages of law , nor as the languages of religion , have the Sanscrit and Arabic any peculiar claim to our ... vernacular dialects of the country , to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western 78.
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... vernacular languages of the country . The Committee of Public Instruction considered this to be an erroneous interpretation of the Resolu- tion , and took the earliest opportunity of explain- ing to the public their own view of what was ...
... vernacular languages of the country . The Committee of Public Instruction considered this to be an erroneous interpretation of the Resolu- tion , and took the earliest opportunity of explain- ing to the public their own view of what was ...
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... vernacular languages . We do not conceive that the order of the 7th of March precludes us from doing this , and we have constantly acted on this construction . In the discussions which pre- ceded that order , the claims of the vernacular ...
... vernacular languages . We do not conceive that the order of the 7th of March precludes us from doing this , and we have constantly acted on this construction . In the discussions which pre- ceded that order , the claims of the vernacular ...
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... vernacular literature to be the ultimate object to which all our efforts must be directed . At present , the extensive cultivation of some foreign language , which is always very improving to the mind , is rendered indispensable by the ...
... vernacular literature to be the ultimate object to which all our efforts must be directed . At present , the extensive cultivation of some foreign language , which is always very improving to the mind , is rendered indispensable by the ...
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