three tracts syntax pronunciation (5 Ergebnisse)

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Zustand: New. KlappentextrnrnThis is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the origina.

Hardbound. Zustand: Fair. 16mo, half black cloth with gold lettering, edgeworn marbled paper covered boards, spine and corners badly worn and chipped, old buckram repair to the bottom inch of the spine, front board detached (bearing the bookplate of the Private Library of Joseph A. Sadony, [viii], 66, ii, 106, ii, 32, iv, 146, 38, [viii], Indexes to the Three Tracts and Appendix on the Hebrew Tongue, The titles of the three tracts, which each hold their own original title pages, are "A Letter to a Learned Friend Respecting Some Particularities of the Hebrew Syntax, Which have no hitherto been Sufficiently Explained by the Hebrew Grammarians, Or by any other Commentator On that most ancient and most valuable Language," "An Account of Some Other Particularities in the Hebrew Tongue, in addition to That Class of Particularities lately explained in 'A Letter to a Learned Friend,'" and "A Short Tract on the Pronunciation of the Hebrew Vowel Letters, Without Points: being an attmpt to restore a regular sound to the Original Hebrew Vowels, by a Fair and Resonable Exertion of Etymology, in comparing derivatives of various languages with their Original Hebrew Source," all dated 1803. And with "Appendix to Three Tracts on the Peculiar Syntax and Pronunciation of the Hebrew Tongue; Addressed more particularly to the Consideration of the Hebrew Nation," dated 1804. Though Sharp was an estimable man who made important contributions to classical philology and to the struggle against slavery, his appendix is predictably of a Missionary nature.

First and only edition. Sharp (1735-1813), best remembered as one of the first abolitionists, was also an esteemed amateur linguist and theologian, having taught himself Hebrew and Greek while apprenticed to a London linen-draper in order to debate with two of his fellow apprentices. "Dr Henry Lloyd, Regius Professor of Hebrew at Cambridge, lauded Sharp for his insights into the pronunciation of Hebrew, as did Bishop Horsley on Sharp's new insights on Hebrew syntax. A refrain seen in many reviews. was that Sharp's treatment was the finest in print, the ablest defence of a view, a great insight that would stand the test of time" (Wallace, Granville Sharp's Canon and its Kin, p. 47). Octavo (187 x 110 mm). With the individual title pages and half-titles for each tract, the register continuous except for the appendix. Uncut in original boards, white paper backstrip, manuscript title to spine. Spine slightly rolled and chipped, a few small markings to covers. An excellent, entirely unsophisticated copy.