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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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  • 1883 Williams Manuscript: The Syrian Antilegomena Epistles. Baltimore, 1886. (Facsimile) with Frank Stockton Dobbins and Samuel Wells Williams. Gods...
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  • and pastoralist Samuel Wells Williams (1812–1884), linguist, missionary and sinologist from the United States Samuel Woodrow Williams (1912–1970), African...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    Hindu Lunar Calendar. The Indian Antiquary XXVI, 177–187 (1897). Samuel Wells Williams, The Middle Kingdom, V 2, Columbia University Press, New York, 2005...
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    (April 7–28). In Hong Kong he met with American-born Sinologist Samuel Wells Williams, who provided Chinese language translations of his official letters...
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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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    Guangzhou, Samuel Wells Williams. Zeng transferred from Bloomfield to Hamilton College, a Presbyterian institution in Clinton, New York. Williams arranged...
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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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    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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    [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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    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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    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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    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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    Samuel Woodrow Williams was a Baptist minister, professor of philosophy and religion, and Civil Rights activist. Williams was born on February 12, 1912...
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    picked up in Macau. It also carried Christian missionaries such as Samuel Wells Williams. In July 1837, Charles W. King set off with the seven Japanese aboard...
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