Note 150 — BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF THE LATE JOHN PICKERING.
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Sir William Jones had studied eight languages critically,—English, Latin, French, Italian, Greek, Arabic, Persian, Sanscrit; eight less perfectly, but all intelligible with a dictionary,—Spanish, Portuguese, German, Runic, Hebrew, Bengali, Hindi, Turkish; twelve least perfectly, but all attainable,—Tibetian, Pâli, Phalavi, Deri, Russian, Syriac, Æthiopic, Coptic, Welsh, Swedish, Dutch, Chinese: in all twenty-eight languages.—Teignmouth, Life of Jones, p. 376, note.