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Title: A history of Babylonia and Assyria
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Rogers, Robert William
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Publisher: New York : Abingdon Press
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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s that skepticism concerning them is farmore prevalent than either its opposite, credu-lousness, or the happy mean of a not too readyfaith. The man who was thus to rebuke the gain-sayer and put the capstone upon the work ofthe decipherment of the Persian inscriptions wasMajor (afterward Sir) Henry Rawlinson, whowas born at Chadlington Park, Oxfordshire, Eng-land, on April 11, 1810. While still a boy Raw-linson went out to India in the service of theEast India Company. There he learned Persianand several of the Indian vernaculars. Thistraining hardly seemed likely to produce a manfor the work of deciphering an unknown lan-guage. It was just such training as had producedmen like the earlier travelers who had made thefirst copies of the inscriptions at Persepolis. Itwas, however, not the kind of education whichGrotefend, Burnouf, and Lassen had received.In 1833 the young Rawlinson went to Persia,there to work with other British officers in thereorganization of the Persian army. To Persia
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Sir Henry C. RawlinsonBorn at Chadlington, Oxon, April 11, 1810, in1827 went out to India; political agent at Kanda-har, 1840; long resident in Baghdad; envoy andminister plenipotentiary in Persia, 1859; member ofParliament, 1865-1868; trustee of the British Mu-seum, 1876; G.C.B., 1889; Baronet, 1891; died inLondon March 5, 18C5, after a marvelously fulllife. ■£( ;bvfl9 ;bxibfi§Ba: ai baebiasn §noI ;0£8I <w( Kiel ..toiioiBti jUeoJ ;.a.vJ.xJ :o\ci .rai/9g

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