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FROM THE PORTUGUESE DISCOVERIES TO THE TIME OF SIR WILLIAM JONES.

Travels to India and Persia--Olearius and his Work--Progress of Persian Studies--Roger--India's Language and Literature remain unknown--Oriental Influence in German Literature, 9

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HERDER.

Herder's Interest in the Orient--Fourth Collection of his Zerstreute Blätter--His Didactic Tendency and Predilection for Saʻdī, 16

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