Oeuvres de M. Auguste Guillaume de Schlegel Écrites En Français (3) - Softcover

Ce livre historique peut avoir de nombreuses fautes de frappe, le texte manquant, des images ou des index. Les acheteurs peuvent télécharger une copie gratuite scannée du livre original (sans fautes de frappe) de l'éditeur. 1846. Non illustré. Extrait: ... APPENDICE A. Prospectus of a Plan for translating and publishing such interesting and valuable Works on Eastern History, Science, and Belles-Lettres as are still in MS. in the Libraries of the Universities, the British Museum, and the East-India House, and in other Collections, in Asia and Africa, as well as in Europe; and for providing Funds to carry this object into execution. 1. The extensive and valuable collections of Oriental MSS. which are deposited in our public and private libraries, have long attracted the attention of the learned of this and other countries; and it has been suggested that some means, offering a reasonable prospect of success, may be devised, by which the public may be put in possession of all that is valuable in Eastern literature, and an opportunity be presented for shewing that this country is not at present backward in contributing to the advancement of Oriental learning, in which she has long held the foremost rank. The interesting relations, moreover, in wich this country stands with the East, affording as they do the best opportunities for carrying such a project into effect, and at the same time promising both to England and its Eastern possessions the most beneficial results, may be mentioned as additional motives for engaging in such an undertaking. 2. The advantages likely to be derived from a more extensive cultivation of Oriental litterature in this country may be considered as applicable to Biblical Criticism, Ecclesiastical and General History, Biography , Belles - Lettres , the Arts and Sciences, and Geography. 3. With reference to Biblical Criticism and Ecclesiastical History, we know that our Scriptures, particularly those of the Old Testament, abound in modes of ex...