This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1839 edition. Excerpt: ... Time was, perhaps, when a scientific assembly in our glorious England would hardly have suffered the dignity of their presence to have been trenched on by the unquestioned utterance of such empiricism; and some one or more of the audience would have stepped forward to advise the speaker to consult the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1839 edition. Excerpt: ... Time was, perhaps, when a scientific assembly in our glorious England would hardly have suffered the dignity of their presence to have been trenched on by the unquestioned utterance of such empiricism; and some one or more of the audience would have stepped forward to advise the speaker to consult the pages of Adam Smith, of Malthus, of Godwin, of Sadler, of Jones, of Place, to search for the occult causes of the evils which he laid to the absence of Topography: but now the moral lessons which were read to us in our youth appear to have been discarded by the learned and wise of our nation, and we seem, in the pomp and pride of the march of intellect, to have trodden under foot the fable which must once have been familiar to us all, that "A town was besieged, and held consultation, Which was the best mode of fortification. A grave skilful mason gave in his opinion, That nothing but stone could secure the dominion. A carpenter said, that that was well spoke, But 'twas better by far to defend it with oak. A currier, wiser than both these together, Said ' Try what you please, but there's nothing like leather.'" But believe me, your Royal Highness, the simple truths are, after all, the most deserving of our attention, for they constitute the chief materials of what M. Chauteaubriand has taught me in his elegant similie above referred to, to call the base of the human edifice, the real genuine and immutable world. That this is digressing, however, I am aware, wherefore we will return to the main subject; and first of all we must come to the conclusion, that the necessity of learning the languages of India, such as they are spoken by the cultivators, is absolutely indispensable to those who desire to obtain accurate statistical information, or...
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