Eulogy On John Pickering Ll D President of the American Academy of Arts And
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70 Survey of all the Known Languages and their Dia- lects, published in the North American Review, in 1822, he represents the present age as the epoch of a new science, — " the comparative science of lan- guages, " which is to be studied, " as we study other parts of human knowledge, by collecting facts, — by ascertaining what languages there are on the globe, and collecting vocabularies, or specimens of them all. " According to his estimate of the number of dialects on the globe, they amount t...o about four thousand. Into this ocean of languages he plunged too deep for me to follow him. I lose sight of him entirely. I cannot fathom his research or enumerate his acqui- sitions. We are now brought to the seventh class of Mr. Pickering's literary labors, embracing those which re- late to comparative philology and ethnography, and, as connected therewith, the Oriental languages, in- cluding those of Africa, Asia, and the vast extent of islands in the Pacific. Here a field was opened to him wide enough for the employment of all his strength and all his time, could he have devoted himself to it.
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