Samuel Wells Williams (September 22, 1812 – February 16, 1884) was a linguist, official, missionary and sinologist from the United States in the early...
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Commodore Perry in regard to the opening of Japan to the outside world. Samuel Wells Williams, a member of Perry's second visit noted in 1854: A new and superior...
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educator Samuel Williams (missionary) (1822–1907), New Zealand missionary, farmer, educationalist, and pastoralist Samuel Wells Williams (1812–1884), linguist...
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1883 Williams Manuscript: The Syrian Antilegomena Epistles. Baltimore, 1886. (Facsimile) with Frank Stockton Dobbins and Samuel Wells Williams. Gods...
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State Assembly in 1829. An older first cousin of Cornelia's was Samuel Wells Williams (1812–1884), who became a notable missionary in China and sinologist;...
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a survey of the ... Chinese empire and its inhabitants ..., by Samuel Wells Williams, a publication from 1848, now in the public domain in the United...
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compilation after being rebuked for criticizing mistranslations in Samuel Wells Williams' (1874) A Syllabic Dictionary of the Chinese Language. The 1,461-page...
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Hong Kong (April 7–28). There he met with American-born Sinologist Samuel Wells Williams (who had been to Japan with the Morrison in 1837), who provided...
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Municipal Health Commission. May 23, 2022. Retrieved May 17, 2024. Samuel Wells Williams (1848). The Middle kingdom: a survey of the ... Chinese empire and...
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yùnfǔ 漢英韻府, compiled by the American sinologist and missionary Samuel Wells Williams in 1874, is a 1,150-page bilingual dictionary including 10,940 character...
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