Persian Manual (Clarke)

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Persian Manual (1877)
by H. Wilberforce Clarke
A grammar and vocabulary of the Persian language (also known as Farsi), written and compiled by the late Captain H. Wilberforce Clarke, officer of the British India corps Bengal Engineers.
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the

persian manual,

A POCKET COMPANION

intended to
facilitate the essential attainments of conversing with
fluency and composing with accuracy, in the most
graceful of all the languages spoken in
the east.


PART I.-- A CONCISE GRAMMAR OF THE

LANGUAGE,

With Exercises on its more prominent peculiarities, together with

a Selection of Useful Phrases, Dialogues, and Subjects for

Translation into Persian.

PART II.-- A VOCABULARY OF USEFUL

WORDS,

ENGLISH AND PERSIAN,

SHOWING AT THE SAME TIME THE DIFFERENCE OF IDIOM BETWEEN THE TWO LANGUAGES.

by

captain h. wilberforce clarke,

Royal Engineers.

LONDON:
Wm. H. ALLEN & CO., 13, WATERLOO PLACE, S.W.


1878.



London:
Gilbert and Rivington, Printers,
52, St. John's Square, E.C.



to

My Uncle, H.M.C.,

who encouraged me in

boyhood, youth, and manhood,

this work is, with affection,

inscribed.


This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

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