...was ever afterwards progreffive. The more elegant dialects of modern Europe, the French, the Spanifo, and the Italian, he fpoke and wrote with the greateft...fluency and precifion ; and the German and Portuguefe \\ere familiar to him. At an early period of life his application to Oriental literature commenced...

...Italian, he spoke and wrote with* the greatest fluency and precision ; and the German and Portuguese were familiar to him. At an early period of life his...application to oriental literature commenced ; he studied the Hebrew with ease and success, and many of the most learned Asiatics have the candour to...