Excerpt from The Missionary Character: An Address Delivered Before the Society of Inquiry in the Theological Seminary in New Haven, April 1, 1840 But how shall so much learning be acquired? The candidate for missions may do something; if he be talented and diligent, he may do much, by extra study druing the course of his education. And here is one great advantage of deciding early upon a missionary life. With what branches he shall make himself famil iar, must and ought to depend somewhat upon his own taste. But one branch ...
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Excerpt from The Missionary Character: An Address Delivered Before the Society of Inquiry in the Theological Seminary in New Haven, April 1, 1840 But how shall so much learning be acquired? The candidate for missions may do something; if he be talented and diligent, he may do much, by extra study druing the course of his education. And here is one great advantage of deciding early upon a missionary life. With what branches he shall make himself famil iar, must and ought to depend somewhat upon his own taste. But one branch should he attended to in com mon by all. It is the languages. What I mean is, that a thorough acquaintance with the general princi ples of language, should be acquired by really master ing the few which come up in the course of his studies, so that he shall know what points to seize upon first, and how to proceed in learning a new one; rather thanthat he should study many. French he ought, how ever, to be acquainted with, and perhaps, also, Ger man; that he may use the valuable elementary and other books those languages contain, and if possible, be able to converse in the former, with foreign travel lers and others whom he will meet abroad. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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