A Grammar of the Malayan Language: With an Introduction and Praxis...author, 1812 - 225 pages |
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Page xxxix - ... unmindful of so valuable a part of that Trade: but as we may by convenient Settlements in those Southern Seas share with the Dutch, the Profits thereof; and I finding so very few English Men that have attained any tollerable Knowledge of the Malayo Tongue, so absolutely necessary to Trade in those Southern Seas, and that there is no Book of this kind published in English, to help the attaining that Language; These Considerations I say, has imboldened me to Publish the Insuing Dictionary, which...
Page xli - A //Dictionary //of the //Malay tongue,// as spoken in the // Peninsula of Malacca,// the Islands of// Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Pulo Pinang, &c.
Page 126 - Pantiins the Malays often recite, in alternate contest, for several hours ; the preceding Pantun always furnishing the catch-word to that which follows, until one of the parties be silenced or vanquished, or, as the Malays express it, be dead (suda matt).
Page 28 - Marsden for an opinion which the latter has hazarded, that in the Malay language " the noun, in its simple state, without any accompanying term to limit or extend its signification, is more properly to be considered as plural than singular.
Page xxiii - ... conversation. The Hindu words, on the contrary, are such as the progress of civilization must soon have rendered necessary, being frequently expressive of the feelings of the mind or denoting those ordinary modes of thought which result from the social habits of mankind, or from the evils that tend to interrupt them.
Page xxxviii - Malayo and English. To which is added some short Grammar, Rules and Directions for the better observation of the propriety and elegancy of this language. And also several Miscellanies, Dialogues and Letters, in English and Malayo...
Page v - Cqffries, who are occasionally found near the mountains, and a few tribes of the Orang benua, there does not exist a vestige of a nation anterior to the Malays in the whole peninsula. As the population of the Malay Peninsula has excited much interest, my attention has been particularly directed to the various tribes stated to be scattered over the country, Those on the hills are usually termed...
Page 225 - A dictionary of the Malayan language, in two parts, Malayan and English, and English and Malayan.
Page 126 - Pantun is a stanza of four short lines rhyming alternately. The first two lines of the quatrain, in the accurate language of Mr Marsden, " are figurative, containing sometimes one, but oftener two unconnected images ; whilst the latter two are moral, sentimental, or amorous ; and we are led to expect that they should exemplify and constitute the application of the figurative part. They do in some few instances...
Page xl - Maleische spraakkunst, uit de eige schriften der Maleijers opgemaakt; met eene Voorreden, behelzende eene Inleiding tot dit werk, en een aanhangsel van twee boekzalen van boeken in deze tale zo van Europeërs, als Maleiiers geschreven.