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io ^ nivBiq " ic aanog sdi m ) yrToHty ^ tiEtfitb'tU fnirAioQ J rrwD abiv t ^ JiBn 0 ^ i ^ i itBi fi ^ Q . ' xwgaiJ . 8 £ iiivioG . oi ( I el -gnirn jj i no bus " ^ ( bioJ eds oi \> sm ^ w ^ laftJtiuliPisoiqtti ^^ tbtjooghAJf I wbjoihed my signature ltivv ^ s j ^ i mistake yfo ^ rstt tbafe « ooDaaink raostioh ardbii&ita thei Wekh and Sanm-it languages ^ w ^ stoiiA ; prudenGfe would have suggested , at least / some tautio ^ i ^ &ndmotex $ ma tationishouid have been raised where there was 6 O little to say * ; .- _ ,- mob *; : ;
tBut ^ be diese matters as they may , the pledge must now iasoniesbrt ) be ic ^ eerned ; for though no particular observations were made at the time , nor intended ib be made in that letter , yet a reservewas left for a fewiwiikfJi might possibly follow . r ^ «^»' iv / L .- > Indeed , what was there said was offered with a particular , professed design , distinct from any intention or profession of my own , and the desi ^ a was two-fold ; first , to excite some one of the Cambrian friends of the late Mr *
Williams , better acquainted with the history aad character of fchat Bruid ^ bard , to pay the proper tribute of respect to his mempry ^ ^ andi ^ eondljr , it ® induce some one well acquainted with the Welsh language , and ( if dt might be ) any ways conversant with the Sanscrit , to consider lhe ; diffie<iesi £ xpressed by Mr . Williams on the appearance of some supposed Sanscrit ljaes nh
among uie poems of the old British barxi Taliesm . ^ I s ' I ' d tn ^ f ~ : -ud But , as I have since heard that a friend of Mr . l ^ iiliajjy ! is pceporing a Memoir of his Life and Writings , and that he himself has left in MS ;« Fegvlar piece o ^ auto-biography , there is the less reason for aolkifcode on the former accoimt , and the less for discussion on the la&e&s i # r Tthfe ^ aes
quoted by Mr . WiHiams from Taliesin , ai ^ e , after aU ^ not "Sanscrit jMtI Williams was misled by his learned friend * There are many persons in th ^ country instructed in the Persian , and some ia sosne of the East-Indian language but very few indeed who know much , qv iadefidrianyntbaogi joFBhe Sanscrit , I , too , misconceived the meaning of the gentleman whom-loonlilted on the matter , in a very short and rapid interview , many ytearsagp *
be took down the words , I remember , somewhat caiitioMsJy ; afc # iei ^ iB ^^ aiif Jihopght seemed to concede them to be Sanscrit , I p ut Mr . ; WiliianiB letter by , and never thought of it again till lately , on heRnfigof hia ^ dejE ^ i ^ : J jthten ^ CQfl « ulted more deliberately a gentleman in London eminentiydisiinguishedfor his knowledge of the Sanscrit , and I am positively a ^ ure ^ \ by hiiof'that the said lines are certainly not in that Imgvwg ®; mU } te ?^ hip fhk tlioughts ( which were floating on my mind pni a ; pe *? sua $ ioa tkit < fchey nk | i
were , must of course be suppressed . The words , howevier ^ f a »^ uoi ed » foniier fetter , may still be left for the coneideration of any £ > oe who may be bupiouB ^ ibouteucbaiatteis , ¦ ¦ - . •• .- ' ; ¦ * \ . <• . - >> - ' ¦ : \ . yv \* . c on wo ^ oi BMt ^ ^ h aU rbeg leave to add a word or * wo bav'whvt ^ irpWUit ^^ Urifn ^ ^ bouti the Welsh : he says , *< there fe' not , $ / word af J ^ fe ^ fctitefi ii *^^
lafrndittleprepared or qualified to dispute that point properly with one who wmxtfio ^ onVeriaant with Ws owiv language . J will supposfe ; tiiaO ihwe ar ^ ^ no wdtito waar ^ S' of pure nwdern WofaW , andthat I the whole jpass ^ geflBaigU'iioli , in prosodical construction ^ be agreeablyitobMi pi ^ s ^ M iiaiomlic £ : itl » g (^ alsrib Ianginage- ^_ jJilU- whenjjut ., bard . adds ,. « mere . k . mtiamg ^ MkL ^ mJm lif ^ lihmSw ' ^ ^ ^ fllftiSIS ^ Atfe ^ SQiH ^ remember , that the nistwordiwaa > Qld Irish , and reiatei ^ fptojiefit' / , iNpfir ^ as
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1827, page 738, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1801/page/26/
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