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Excerpt from Chinese Moral Maxims: With a Free and Verbal Translation; Affording Examples of the Grammatical Structure of the Language
The following small collection was made in the year 1818, and sent home to the Library of the East India House, whence, at the recommendation of Da. Wilkins, it was transferred back to China, and ordered by the Honorable Court of Direc tors to be printed at the Company's Press, the want of types in England '(a want that has already been supplied in France) rendering such a step necessary towards the printing of any werkfwhibh contained. A large 'proportion of the Chinese Cha racter; The first object of the Compilation (as set forth in. The -'to a¿'ord some assistance to Students of the Language, but there are perhaps other Persons to whom itmay not' be altogether devoid of interest.
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