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Excerpt from Persian Miscellanies, an Essay to Facilitate the Reading of Persian Manuscripts: With Engraved Specimens, Philological Observations, and Notes Critical and Historical
That ambition of fame which teaches many to consider as unworthy of attention those minuter subjects from which little reputation for genius can be expected, I had long supposed to be the cause, why, among those who have contributed to the advancement of Oriental Literature, so little has been done on that introductory branch, of which the following Essay principally treats.
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