A Grammar and Vocabulary of the Susoo Language: To which are Added the Names of Some of the Susoo Towns Near the Banks of the Rio Pongas, a Small Catalogue of Arabic Books, and a List of the Names of Some of the Learned Men of the Mandinga and Foulah Countries, with Whom an Useful Correspondence Could be Opened Up in the Arabic Language

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J. Ritchie, Blackfriars Wynd, 1802 - 136 pàgines
 

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Pàgina xxviii - And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues. Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are all workers of miracles? have all the gifts of healing? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret?
Pàgina xxiii - ... Cicero, as drawn by Plutarch, is known to every one. ' With rods.]— The perfon of a Roman citizen was in a manner facred ; of which we have a remarkable example in the hiftory of St. Paul. See Afts, chap. xxii. ver. 25. " And as they bound him with thongs, Paul faid unto the centurion that flood by, Is it lawful for you to fcourge a man that is a Roman, and uncondemnedi the Roman people.
Pàgina xxiv - Signior, before they are fent to the colleges or feminaries, where they are educated for employments according to their genius or abilities.
Pàgina xxxvi - It was written by Mr Macaulay, and printed for the Sierra Leone children, in Freetown, while he was in the colony, and tranflated by me into the Sufoo language, and taught to the Sufoo children at Kondaia, by Mr Greig.
Pàgina 32 - To lignify that the converfation is over, they can fay, fe fala^ende, fe banta fala, fe banta gei fala, fe gei falade, fe fa nieng, fe fala a ra, fe banta fala, a ra fala, fe banta lu, fala fe...
Pàgina 9 - Sufoos can be made to understand what is meant by a plural number, however, they agree that they have a termination to denote it; but I have...
Pàgina 9 - Sufoos have a fingular and plural number, but it is, for the moft part, exceedingly difficult to diftinguifh the one from the other, by hearing them pronounce the words; and, if we may judge from the little attention that the...
Pàgina 78 - This word feems to be compounded of geri and fhuge, the fun, or elfe, fhigei, to cut; but I do not know the literal meaning of geri, as it is ufed hdre.
Pàgina 104 - I ihuuld even- wifh the words, which I have compounded of ma and radical words, on account of...
Pàgina 74 - I do not know the meaning of feri. Perhaps it means the part of the day in which the fun fhines.

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