Wilson Philological Lectures on Sanskrit and the Derived Languages c12.76

c12.76

As a new practitioner, it was impossible in the course of these lectures to do justice to the subject without entering into matters which are not interesting, except to those who have already paid some attention to the studies, and I was compelled to compress a great many into a small space, but in spite of the fact and though I frequently omitted large portions of what I had written, the following work and lectures, I am, alas, late, obliged to pen for the log between you and your own, and especially to those who have attended it with thoughts.