[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886) › c4.6 # Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c4.6 Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c4.6 - **Language:** English ### [c4.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c4.6) Indeed, in bulk, nearly seven-eighths of it is so. But BURNELL contributed so much of value, so much of the essential; buying, in the search for illustration, numerous rare and costly books which were not otherwise accessible to him in India; setting me, by his example, on lines of research with which I should have else possibly remained unacquainted; writing letters with such fulness, frequency, and interest on the details of the work up to the summer of his death; that the measure of bulk in contribution is no gauge of his share in the result. - [Previous: c4.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c4.5) - [Next: c4.7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c4.7) - [Up: c4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c4) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c4.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c4.6) · Pramāṇa