The Principles of Syriac Grammar: Tr. and Abridged from the Work of Dr. Hoffmann

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Williams and Norgate, 1858 - 183 pages
 

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Page v - Select Metrical Hymns and Homilies of Ephraem Syrus. Translated from the Original Syriac, with an Introduction and Historical and Philological Notes. By the Rev. HENRY BURGESS, Ph. D. of Gottingen, a Presbyter of the Church of England, Translator of the Festal Letters of Athanasius from an Ancient Syriac Version.
Page x - GRAMMAR OF THE MODERN SYRIAC LANGUAGE, as spoken in Oroomiah, Persia, and in Koordistan. By Rev. DT STODDARD, Missionary of the American Board in Persia.
Page v - ... translations of Ephraem Syrus), who very kindly placed his materials at my disposal. It will both interest and profit such as desire to study the metrical composition in which the literature of this language abounds. There are two other respects in which the present work differs from that of Dr. Hoffman ; the historical prolegomena have been reduced to the smallest possible proportions, as not necessary for the class of students to whom this is adapted, and the tables of verbs have been put at...
Page 19 - This is the insertion of a letter in the middle of a word, for the purpose of a better dynamical or musical effect.
Page v - ... wholly new, and has been adopted for facility of reference. The last division of this volume is also new (the prosody), and has been compiled with the assistance of the work of the Rev. Henry Burgess, LL.D. etc., (the translations of Ephraem Syrus), who very kindly placed his materials at my disposal. It will both interest and profit such as desire to study the metrical composition in which the literature of this language abounds. There are two other respects in which the present work differs...
Page iv - I have often introduced corrections and additions of ray own. The arrangement is wholly new, and has been adopted for facility of reference. The last division of this volume is also new (the prosody), and has been compiled with the assistance of the work of the Rev. Henry Burgess, LL.D. etc., (the translations of Ephraem Syrus), who very kindly placed his materials at my disposal. It will both interest and profit such as desire to study the metrical composition...
Page xi - Dr. Bernstein has been for thirty years upon a lexicon, and the first sheets of this long expected work have passed through the press. From the specimens, it promises lo be a magnificent publication.
Page 138 - Octosyllabic ,,is the same as our long metre, and if our readers will scan it along with some English hymn, they will have a better idea of its effect.
Page 6 - Sometimes these last are written %; and 0 that, when ^, is the last letter of one word and | the first of another, as }&?££ fal-afio, upon earth) for ^i"jX^.
Page 65 - The names and appellations of women, regions, cities, islands, and such members of the body as are double, are feminine.

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