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    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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  • educator Samuel Williams (missionary) (1822–1907), New Zealand missionary, farmer, educationalist, and pastoralist Samuel Wells Williams (1812–1884), linguist...
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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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  • 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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    [citation needed] An American interpreter and missionary named Samuel Wells Williams wrote that this was possibly the worst defeat the British had suffered...
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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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    Treasure Fleet of the Dragon Throne, 1405-1433, p. 59; see also Williams, Samuel Wells. (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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    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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    Samuel Wells (August 15, 1801 – July 15, 1868) was an American politician and the 25th Governor of Maine. Samuel Wells was born in Durham, New Hampshire...
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    Hindu Lunar Calendar. The Indian Anti- quary XXVI, 177–187 (1897). Samuel Wells Williams, The Middle Kingdom, V 2, Columbia University Press, New York, 2005...
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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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  • Library in 1893. Williams is related to Talcott Williams and Samuel Wells Williams. He is the great-great grandson of William Williams who served in the...
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    Granger Bridgman succeeded him as editor, until September 1848, when Samuel Wells Williams took charge. Lazich, Michael C. (June 2006). "American Missionaries...
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    which provided patrol boats and coastal security for the event. Samuel Wells Williams, a translator on the Perry mission, backs up this record: "Some...
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    Elijah Coleman Bridgman; Samuel Wells Williams (1835). The Chinese Repository. Maruzen Kabushiki Kaisha. p. 381. Williams, Samuel Wells (1842). Easy Lessons...
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  • the Qing dynasty, around 3,000 people in a class called "to min". Samuel Wells Williams gave an account of them in his book "The Middle kingdom: a survey...
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  • Chinese Language" (1822): 使徒, 審判, 法律, 醫學, 自然的, 新聞, 精神, 単位, 行為, 言語 Samuel Wells Williams "An English and Chinese Vocabulary in Court Dialect" (1844): 內閣...
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  • unsystematic romanized pronunciation. Elijah Coleman Bridgman and Samuel Wells Williams in their Chinese Chrestomathy in the Canton Dialect (1841) were...
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    Hong Kong (April 7–28), where he met with American-born Sinologist Samuel Wells Williams, who provided Chinese language translations of his official letters...
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    returned to drive them away immediately, and stop the trade. — Samuel Wells Williams, The Middle Kingdom: A Survey of the Geography, Government, Education...
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  • Names". Technical Notes. Unicode Consortium. Retrieved 2008-06-13. Samuel Wells Williams (1863). The Chinese Commercial Guide (5th ed.). Hongkong: A. Shortrede...
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    Theodore Samuel Williams (August 30, 1918 – July 5, 2002) was an American professional baseball player and manager. He played his entire 19-year Major...
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    politician Samuel Wells Williams (1812–1884), American linguist, missionary and sinologist Seth Wells Cheney (1810–1856), American artist Sharlene Wells Hawkes...
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  • vocabulary in the court dialect by Samuel Wells Williams was based on the Nanjing dialect, rather than the Beijing dialect. Williams also described the differences...
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    daughter Emma Niederbrock and friend Melanie Wells. Emma Niederbrock shared an online friendship with Richard Samuel McCroskey, a troubled aspiring rapper who...
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  • Hudson Hills Press. p. 144. ISBN 1-55595-238-0. OCLC 55016186. Williams, Samuel Wells (1849). The Chinese Empire and Its Inhabitants: Being a Survey of...
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    were dropped by later writers. Following on from Medhurst's work, Samuel Wells Williams became the chief proponent of major changes in the orthography devised...
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    first round of the Fed Cup. Williams then suffered back-to-back early exits in Indian Wells and Miami.[citation needed] Williams made her return to Grand...
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