[148] De Oratoribus Dialogus, c. 32,—sometimes attributed to Tacitus.
[149] Notes on Eliot's Indian Grammar, Mass. Hist. Coll., Second Series, Vol. IX. p. xi. I cannot forbear adding, that in the correspondence of Leibnitz there is a proposition for a new alphabet of the Arabic, Æthiopic, Syriac, and similar languages, which may remind the reader of that of Mr. Pickering. Leibnitz, Opera (ed. Dutens), Vol. VI. p. 88.
[150] Sir William Jones had studied eight languages critically,—English, Latin, French, Italian, Greek, Arabic, Persian, Sanscrit; eight less perfectly, but all intelligible with a dictionary,—Spanish, Portuguese, German, Runic, Hebrew, Bengali, Hindi, Turkish; twelve least perfectly, but all attainable,—Tibetian, Pâli, Phalavi, Deri, Russian, Syriac, Æthiopic, Coptic, Welsh, Swedish, Dutch, Chinese: in all twenty-eight languages.—Teignmouth, Life of Jones, p. 376, note.
[151] De Oratore, Lib. III. cap. 32.
[152] Preface to Dictionary.
[153] Divina Commedia, Inferno, Canto XXIV. vv. 47-51.
[154] Hon. Edward Everett, President of Harvard University.
[155] Hon. Josiah Quincy, late President of Harvard University.
[156] History of the Rebellion, Book VII.
[157] Johnson, Vanity of Human Wishes, vv. 303-306.