A Tamil Hand-book: Or, Full Introduction to the Common Dialect of that Language, on the Plan of Ollendorf and Arnold : for the Use of Foreigners Learning Tamil, and of Tamulians Learning English : with Copious Vocabularies (Tamil-English, and English-Tamil), Appendices Containing Reading Lessons, Analyses of Letters, Deeds, Complaints, Official Documents, and a Key to the Exercises |
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Page 153 - He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves beside. There's not a chain That hellish foes, confederate for his harm, Can wind around him, but he casts it off With as much ease as Samson his green withes.
Page 2 - I have always supposed that their place was among the members of the last mentioned family, and that they were probably disjecta membra of a language coeval with Sanskrit, and having the same origin with it. They certainly contain many traces of a close connection with the Greek, the Gothic, the Persian, and the other languages of the same family, in points even where Sanskrit presents no parallel.
Page 11 - ... apply the tip of the tongue, as far back as you can, to the palate and pronounce a rough r in which a sound of z will mingle. In the South, unable to articulate this letter, they use a strong I (err) instead. In the North in the same way they use v (у) for Lp.
Page 62 - Q&ihaigi, &c. is constantly used; but the remaining forms of the future are not so common. 89. These nouns govern the same cases as the verbs from which they are derived.
Page 4 - Rev. CTE Rhenius of Palamcottah. This is a very clear and useful work, and was founded upon that of Beschius. It has gone through three editions, and though not a philosophical grammar, is a plain, useful manual.
Page 1 - The eastern boundary is the Eastern Sea, the Bay of Bengal ; the southern boundary is Cape Comorin ; the western boundary is the West Sea ; the northern boundary is Vengadam or Tripatty, a town about eighty miles north-west of Madras, nearly on the same parallel with Pulicat.
Page 4 - It is to be regretted that the author should have allowed himself to speak as though he had been the first to "introduce Tamil into the sphere of European studies.