 With respect to the sciences, it is worse than a waste of time to employ persons either to teach or to learn them in the state in which they are found in the oriental books. As far as any historical documents may be found in the oriental languages, what...  Reports ... Together with the Minutes of Evidence ... - Page 246by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on the East India Company - 1833Full view - About this book
 | Charles Edward Trevelyan - 1838 - 254 pages
...results. " With respect to the sciences, it is worse than a waste of time to employ persons either to teach or to learn them in the state in which they...remains in oriental literature is poetry ; but it never has been thought necessary to establish colleges for the cultivation of poetry, nor is it certain... | |
 | Pramatha Nath Bose - 1896 - 332 pages
...will show : " With respect to the sciences, it is worse than a waste of time to employ persons either to teach or to learn them in the state in which they are found in the oriental books We wish you to be fully apprized of our zeal for the progress and improvement of education among the... | |
 | Aly Fouad Salahuddin Ahmad - 1965 - 224 pages
...that so far as the sciences were concerned "it is worse than a waste of time to employ persons either to teach or to learn them in the state in which they are found in the Oriental books". 2 They condemned the Government's plan of establishing Oriental institutions as "originally and fundamentally... | |
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