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XII. An Essay on the best Means of ascertaining the Affinities of Oriental Languages

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 November 2009

William Humboldt
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Extract

I have the honour to return you Sir James Mackintosh's interesting memoir. It possesses (like every thing which comes from the pen of that gifted and ingenious writer) the highest interest; and the ideas which are so luminously developed in it have the more merit, if we consider, that, at the period when this memoir was published, philosophical notions on the study and nature of languages were rarer and more novel than they are at present.

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Transactions of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland , Volume 2 , Issue 1 , March 1830 , pp. 213 - 221
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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1830

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