CO129-082 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [8-12] — Page 114

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creditable to them. Mr. Turner ~~

especially

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both reads and speaks with distinctness and propriety of

intonation which

may

remarkable I have

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by the devotion of of his time to the

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be pronounced

doubt that

good portion

study,

du he

would be able say, by the end

of next year- service to the government. He read portions of the New Testament, and

to render important

of the first Book

Analects.

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the

Confucian

Mit Ronald also read a portion

of the first Book of the Analects. He is not equal to Mr Turner, but has just been by any

net

means idle. He

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is capable of acquiring a good was practical knowledge of the language ck = Sungder read a portion of the... Three C'harach blasie,

and has

with time

acquired a good many colloquial phrases. He aise and attention qualify he

may

imself to do the Government good servic

Mr Birch had been studying for

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a shorter timb, and only professed portion of the Radicals. His enunciation

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sufficcially good, and I was able

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him to

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his studies, impressing it

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on

forward with

on him

the others, that it is

emphatically time of the Chinese language that there is

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