... merit is that of exhibiting a genuine picture, by a native hand, of Malayan manners and dispositions, more forcibly, and, it may be said, more dramatically represented, than they could be drawn by the pencil of any stranger. Memoirs of a Malayan Family - Page iiby Nakhoda Muda, 'La-uddı̄n - 1830 - 88 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1861 - 828 pages
...ancestors, the Faxons, Danes, and Northmen. Mr. Marsden also commends the book for its style, as " affording a specimen of simple narrative; a style...with the romantic and extravagant tales so prevalent among these and other eastern people." Dr. Ley den's learned essay on the "Languages and Literature... | |
| American cyclopaedia - 1861 - 804 pages
...ancestors, the Saxons, Danes, and Northmen. Mr. Marsden also commends the book for its style, as " affording a specimen of simple narrative ; a style...with the romantic and extravagant tales so prevalent among these and other eastern people." Dr. Ley den's learned essay on the "Languages and Literature... | |
| George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1861 - 812 pages
...Marsden also commends the book for its style, as " affording a specimen of simple narrative ; a stylo of which some writers have thought the Malays incapable,...with the romantic and extravagant tales so prevalent among these and other eastern people." Dr. Leyden's learned essay on the "Languages and Literature... | |
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