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Translation of the Letters of a Hindoo Rajah (1)
Translation of the Letters of a Hindoo Rajah - 1 Author:Elizabeth Hamilton Subtitle: Written Previous To, and During the Period of His Residence in England ; to Which Is Prefixed, a Preliminary Dissertation on the History, Religion, and Manners, of the Hindoos Volume: 1 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1811 Original Publisher: Printed for John Walker; Wilkie and Robinson; Longman, Hur... more »st, Rees. Orme and Brown; R. Scholey; A.K. Newman and Co.; and J. Johnson and Co. Subjects: England Great Britain Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: IT has been justly complained, that the different orthography adopted by the Oriental translators is a source of much perplexity to the English reader; but, from the variety of opinions that prevail upon the subject, it is an evil which cannot easily be remedied. Instead of the double vowels re. and oo, used by Mr Wilkins, and frequently by Mr Halhed, Sir William Jones substitutes t and u; and instead of the K, made use of by the former Gentleman, he uses the letter C. From the different modes of pronunciation among the natives in the different provinces, another difficulty has arisen. It is from that cause that we frequently find the letter B a substitute for V, as Beena for Veena,« less