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# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Bland, John (1702-1750)

​BLAND, JOHN (1702–1750), writing-master, was born 17 Aug. 1702 in Crutched-friars, London, his father being a clerk in the Victualling Office, Tower Ilill (Massey, Origin and Progress of Letters, part ii. p. 25). About 1710 John Bland was put to Westminster School, where he stayed four years, and then, returning to the city, he became a pupil of a Mr. Snell, Foster Lane. About 1717 he took a clerkship in the Custom-house (his own Essay on Writing, 1730, preface), where he stayed nine years, and where he acquired his knowledge of ship-marks, invoices, bill-headings, applications, petitions, &c. which form the matter of his published copy-plates. In 1726 he became writing-master in Mr. William Watts's Academy in Little Tower Street, and thence, in 1730. he issued the 'Essay on Writing,' his preface being dated 13 Jan. 1729-30. About the same time Bland prepared five elaborately flourished pieces of penmanship for George Bickhams 'Universal Penman' (Massey. part ii. p. 27). In 1739, after thirteen years with Mr. Watts, he established himself in Birchin Lane as an accountant and a writing-master. In 1740 another writing-master, Joseph Champion, issued a work 'Penmanship,' &c., in which some specimens by Bland appeared. In 1744 Bland relinquished his office in Birchin Lane, and opened an academy in Bishopsgate Street, and he continued at the head of that till he died, 21 Jan. 1749-50, aged 47. He was buried in St. Martin Outwich Church, at the end of Threadneedle Street. Bland's 'Essay on Writing' was republished in 1803.
[Massey's Origin and Progress of Letters, part ii., article 'John Bland;' Preface to Bland's own Essay on Writing, 1730; Preface to Joseph Champion's Penmanship, 1740.]
J. H.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Cobbin, Ingram

​COBBIN, INGRAM (1777–1851), independent minister, was born in London in December 1777, and educated at Hoxton Academy. He became minister at South Molton in 1802, and afterwards officiated at Banbury, Holloway, Putney, Crediton, Worcester, and Lymington. For some time he acted as secretary to the British and Foreign School Society, and in 1819 he was appointed the first secretary of the Home Missionary Society. Ill-health compelled him to retire from the ministry in 1828, and he thenceforward devoted his energies at his residence in Camberwell to the compilation of a large number of scholastic and biblical works, among which may be mentioned his 'Evangelical Synopsis;' his 'Condensed,' 'Portable,' 'Domestic,' 'Analytical,' and ' Oriental ' Commentaries; 'The Book of Popery,' 1840; and 'Bible Remembrancer,' 1848. He died on 10 March 1851.
[Congregational Year-book, 1851, p. 212; Cat. of Printed Books in Brit. Mus.; Evans's Cat. of Engraved Portraits, No. 14352.]
T. C.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Cobbold, John Spencer

​COBBOLD, JOHN SPENCER (1768–1837), divine, son of the Rev. Thomas Cobbold, was born at Occold, Suffolk, on 24 July 1768. He was educated at Caius College, Cambridge, of which he was elected a fellow. He graduated B.A. as seventh wrangler in 1790, M.A. in 1793. About 1794 he accepted the mastership of the free school at Nuneaton, Warwickshire. He next became curate to his father at Wilby, Suffolk. In 1805 he removed to Woolpit, in the same county, as his father's curate, and on the decease of his father in 1831 he became the rector of that parish, where he spent the remainder of his life. He also held the vicarage of Shelland, Suffolk, to which he was instituted in 1793. He died at Woolpit on 3 April 1837 (Ipswich Journal, 15 April 1837, 25 Aug. 1838).
In addition to several detached sermons, he published:
* 'An Essay tending to show in what sense Jesus Christ "hath brought life and immortality to light through the Gospel,"' Ipswich, 1793, 8vo.
* 'An Essay tending to show the advantages which result to Revelation from its being conveyed to us in the form of History,' Coventry, 1797, 8vo (Cat. of Printed Books in Brit. Mus.)
Both these essays gained the Norrisian prize.
[Authorities cited above; also Graduati Cantab, ed. 1856, p. 81; Davy's Athenæ Suffolcienses, iii. 246; Gent. Mag. new ser. vii. 665.]
T. C.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Cobbold, Elizabeth

​COBBOLD, ELIZABETH (1767–1824), poetical writer, born in Watling Street, London, in 1767, was a daughter of Robert Knipe, afterwards of Manchester and Liverpool, by his wife, a Miss Waller. In 1787 Miss Knipe published her first work, 'Six Narrative Poems,' by subscription, and dedicated it to Sir Joshua Reynolds, to whom she was well known. In 1789 she wrote an epilogue to a play performed at Liverpool; and at the end of 1790 she was married in that city to William Clarke, comptroller of the customs at Ipswich, a man much her senior and a great invalid. In 1791, as Eliza Clarke, she published ​at Liverpool, and also by subscription, 'The Sword, or Father Bertrand's History of his own Times,' a novel, in 2 vols. She lost her first husband, Clarke, six months after their marriage. In 1792 she married John Cobbold of the Cliff Brewery, Ipswich, a widower of considerable property, with fourteen children. Mrs. Cobbold had six sons and one daughter by her second husband; but she was indefatigable with her pen and her pencil, and her hospitalities and charities, both at The Cliff and Holy wells, her subsequent residence. In 1800, under the pseudonym of Carolina Petty Pasty, she published 'The Mince Pye,' a poetical skit, the frontispiece to which is a portrait of Mrs. Glasse, from Mrs. Cobbold's own hand. In 1803 she edited the poems of 'The Suffolk Cottager,' Ann Candler [q. v.], prefixing a memoir to them; and having commenced some noted valentine parties about 1806, she published sets of these, as 'Cliff Valentines,' in 1813 and 1814, followed by an 'Ode to Waterloo' in 1815. She established a clothing society for infant poor in 1812, a charitable bazaar in 1820, and she was a frequent contributor to such periodicals as 'The Chaplet,' Raw's 'Ladies' Fashionable Repository,' &c.
Mrs. Cobbold wrote a monodrama, 'Cassandra,' performed by Miss Macauley at what was then called the European Saloon, King Street, St. James's; and she wrote an address for Miss Goward (afterwards Mrs. Robert Keeley), the singer, on her appearance at the Ipswich theatre, the vocalist's talent having been discovered and fostered by her. Mrs. Cobbold died on 17 Oct. 1824. In 1825 many of her fugitive pieces were collected and published at Ipswich in two editions, the large size embellished with her own drawings. For this volume of 'Poems' a memoir was written by Lætitia Jermyn; and the large copies have portraits of the poetess and Mr. Cobbold. Mrs. Cobbold helped Sir W. Smith over his 'Flora Anglica,' and Sowerby named a shell after her, the Nucula Cobboldice.
[Poems, 1825 (large ed.), the Memoir affixed, et infra; The Mince Pye, by Carolina Petty Pasty.]
J. H.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Coats, Thomas

​COATS, THOMAS (1809–1883), thread manufacturer, was born at Paisley 18 Oct. 1809. He was the fourth of a family of ten sons. His father, James Coats, was one of the founders of the thread industry of Paisley. In the hands of Thomas and his surviving brother, Sir Peter Coats, the Ferguslie Thread Works became one of the largest in the world. Coats was distinguished for the interest he took in the public welfare, and for many private acts of unostentatious generosity. In 1868 he presented to the town of Paisley a public park, called the ‘Fountains Gardens,’ the first place of recreation for the poor of the town. He took great interest in education, and in 1873 was elected chairman of the school board, an office he continued to hold with credit until his death. He gave large sums to improve the school accommodation, and provided a playground for the scholars. From 1862 to 1864 he was president of the Paisley Philosophical Institution, and in 1882 he presented to the society the observatory situated on Oakshaw Hill; he furnished it with an equatorial telescope and other costly instruments, and provided a residence and endowment for the curator.
For several years Coats was an enthusiastic collector of Scottish coins, and his collection became the largest and most valuable of its kind. He was desirous of making a catalogue of the various specimens, and entrusted the work to Edward Burns, a well-known Scottish numismatist. But in Burns's hands the catalogue swelled into an elaborate ‘History of the Coinage of Scotland,’ and was unfinished at the time of Coats's death. Burns himself died suddenly in the midst of his labours, and the task of completion was entrusted to other hands. The work is now (1887) in the press.
In November 1881 Coats and his brother Sir Peter were entertained at a banquet at Paisley, and presented with their portraits, painted by Sir Daniel Macnee, P.R.S.A. Coats died of an affection of the heart on 15 Oct. 1883. His funeral was attended by a large concourse of people. A statue was recently erected at Paisley to his memory. In religion Coats was a baptist, and in politics a liberal.
J. T. B.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Cobbe, Charles

​COBBE, CHARLES, D.D. (1687–1765), archbishop of Dublin, was born and educated at Winchester. He afterwards entered Trinity College, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. in 1709, and M.A. in 1712 (Cat. of Oxford Graduates, edit. 1851, p. 136). In August 1717 he went to Ireland as chaplain to Charles, duke of Bolton, lord-lieutenant. His first ecclesiastical preferment was the rectory of Skrine in the diocese of Meath. Afterwards he was appointed dean of Ardagh (22 Jan. 1718-19), whence he was promoted to the sees of Killala and Achonry by patent dated 30 May 1720. He was translated to the see of Dromore by patent dated 16 Feb. 1726-7, and thence in March 1731 to Kildare, with which latter dignity he held, in commendam, the deanery of Christ Church, Dublin, and the preceptory of Tully, co. Kildare. On 19 July 1734 he was sworn of the privy council. He appears to have taken the degrees of B.D. and D.D. at Dublin 1735, and he was created D.D. at Oxford by diploma dated 9 July 1744 (Cat. of Dublin Graduates, edit. 1869, p. 109). He was translated to the archiepiscopal see of Dublin by letters patent dated 4 March 1742-3. He died at St. Sepulchre's, Dublin, on 14 April 1765, and was buried at Dunabate, where he had a country seat.
His portrait has been engraved by A. Miller from a painting by F. Bindon (Bromley, Cat. of Engraved Portraits, p. 354).
[Authorities cited above; also Cotton's Fasti Eccl. Hiberniæ, ii. 24, iii. 187, iv. 74; Gent. Mag. xxxv. 199; D'Alton's Memoirs of the Archbishops of Dublin, p. 342; Mant's Hist, of the Church of Ireland, ii. 637-40.]
T. C.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Coates, Charles

​COATES, CHARLES (1746?–1813), antiquary, son of John Coates, watchmaker, of the city of London, was born at Reading in or about 1746. After nine years' schooling at the free grammar school of Reading under the Rev. John Spicer, he was admitted, at the age of sixteen, as a sizar to Caius College, Cambridge, on 5 May 1762, proceeded M.B. in 1767, and on 16 June of the same year was admitted ‘pensionarius major’ (College Matriculation Book). He ultimately selected the church as his profession, and was for some years, between 1775 and 1797, curate to the Rev. Charles Sturges, at that time vicar of Ealing (Nichols, Lit. Anecd. ix. 110). Meanwhile, in 1780, he had become vicar of Preston, Dorsetshire, a preferment which he owed to his old schoolmaster, the Rev. John Spicer, and early in 1788 he was presented to the neighbouring vicarage of Osmington by the Bishop of Salisbury (Hutchins, Dorsetshire, 3rd ed. ii. 510, 838). In the last-named year he was created LL.B. by the Archbishop of Canterbury, and was afterwards appointed chaplain to the prince regent. The last years of his life were clouded by illness and domestic loss; he died at Osmington 7 April 1813.
In 1791 Coates issued proposals for ‘The History and Antiquities of Reading’ (Gent. Mag. vol. lxi. pt. ii. p. 1088), which appeared in 1802 (ib. vol. lxxii. pt. ii. p. 620), and was followed, seven years later, by ‘A Supplement … with Corrections and Additions by the Author.’ Both works are of permanent value, but their general utility is diminished by the absence of indexes. Coates meditated other literary work. An enlarged edition of Ashmole's ‘Antiquities of Berkshire’ is mentioned, and he also made collections for a continuation of Le Neve's ‘Lives of the Protestant Bishops,’ which he afterwards presented to Alexander Chalmers for insertion in the new edition of the ‘General Biographical Dictionary.’ He was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries on 18 April 1793.
[Gent. Mag. lxxxiii. i. 83, ii. 88-9; Nichols's Lit. Anecd. i. 128; Cooper's Biog. Dict.]
G. G.
# Dialogues, Intended to Facilitate the Acquiring of the Bengalee Language/Going to Market

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হাটের বিষয়ে।
আইসহে হাটে যাবাতো চল।
ওহে ভাই আর চলে না উপার্জ্জন কিছুই নাই প্রতি হাটে কড়ি চাই কোথাহইতে হবে। এই সম্প্রতি আজি তৈল নাই লবণ নাই চাউল নাই কি করিব ভাবিছি। পুঁজি আছে কেবল এক টাকা। চলতো যাই না হয় দোকালে দেনিটেনি করে আনিব।
হাটে তোমার কি নীতে হবে। আমার ভাই চাউলটাউল মেনে আছে কেবল শাক মাচ তরিতরকারি আর বৌর জন্য একখান সাড়ী কিনিতে হবে। এই সে দিন একখান কিনিয়া দিয়াছি ইহার মধ্যে তা চিরে ফেলিল। আর যা হউক তা হউক কাপড়েই মোরে আঁধার দেখালে।
GOING TO MARKET.
Come, will you go to market? Go on.
O brother, this won't do. I have no income. I want money every market-day. Where is it to be got? This very day there is neither oil, nor salt, nor rice. I am thinking what I must do. There is but one rupee in the house. Go on. I must go. If there's no money I must take things from the shop upon credit.
What do you want from market? Brother, I have got rice, and the like; only I must buy greens, fish, and fruits or roots, to eat with my rice, and a cloth (saree) for my wife. The other day I brought and gave her one, but she has torn it. Other things must be as they happen: buying cloth shews me the dark, [i. e. exhausts my substance.]
# Dialogues, Intended to Facilitate the Acquiring of the Bengalee Language/Journeying

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যাত্রা।
কোথা হইতে আইলা।
কোথায় যাইতেছ।
আমি রাজমহল হইতে আইলাম।
এক মাসে কলিকাতায় উত্তরিব।
রাজমহল কত দিন ছাড়িয়াছ।
কল্য রাজমহল ছাড়িলাম কিন্তু সম্মুখ বাতাসপ্রযুক্ত নৌকা চলে না।
এ পদ্মা নদীর বড় ঢেউ তাহাতে আগাইতে পারি না।
এত বায়ু না হইলে মোহনগঞ্জে পহুঁছিতাম।
পাল্কীতে গেলে বড় ভাল হইত।
এ দেশ বড় মন্দ। যদি গাড়ির পথ হইত তবে বড় সুখে যাইতে পারিতাম।
এত দূর গাড়িতে কখন যাইতে পার না। এত নদী নালা পার হইবার আছে ও রাত্রে থাকিবার জায়গা নাই।
নদীর মোহনায় কত জল।
অনেক জল আছে। এখন উজানের জল বহুৎ আসিতেছে।
তোমার কত দাঁড়ি।
আমি দিবারাত্রি যাওনের কারণ অধিক দাঁড়ি সঙ্গে লইলাম।
আমার ঘরে আসিয়া দুই তিন দিন থাক।
তোমার সহিত যাইতে চাহি। কিন্তু এখন যাওয়া উচিত নয়।
বড় গৌণ হইবে না। আইস।
প্রস্থান কর। আমি আসিতেছি।
ভাল। আমরা সঙ্গে২ যাই।
JOURNEYING.
From whence came you?
Where are you going?
I came from Rajemahl.
I shall arrive at Calcutta in about a month.
How long have you left Rajemahl?
I left Rajemahl yesterday, but the boat cannot get forward because of contrary winds.
There are such waves in the Ganges that I cannot get on at all.
Had it not been for this wind, I should had arrived at Mohungunj.
It would have been well if I had gone in a palanquin.
This is a bad country. If there had been a carriage road, I could have gone with pleasure.
It is impossible to go so far in a carriage, there are so many rivers and rivulets to cross, and no place where you could put up at night.
How much water is there at the mouth of the river?
There is plenty of water. The water now comes plentifully from the upper countries.
How many rowers have you?
I brought an extra number of rowers for the purpose of travelling both day and night.
Come to my house, and stay two or three days.
I wish to go with you; but it is improper now.
The delay will not be great. Come along.
Set off. I am coming.
Well, we will go together.
# Dialogues, Intended to Facilitate the Acquiring of the Bengalee Language/Seeking Employment

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কার্য্য চেষ্টার কথা।
তুমি কলিকাতায় যাবা।
যাব। আমার কিছু দিন দেরি আছে।
এখানে কিছু কার্য্য আছে সে কার্য্য হইলে পর দুই তিন রোজপরে যাইব।
আচ্ছা। আমিও যাব আমার কিছুদিন গৌণ আছে।
দুই জনে একত্র হইয়া যাব যখন যাও তখন আমাকে অবশ্য২ কহিবা।
ভাল। তোমাকে আমার যাওন পূৰ্ব্বে কহিব একত্র দুই জনে যাইব। নায়ে যাবা না খুষকি যাবা।
আমার নায়ে যাবার সঙ্গতি নাই। কি রূপে যাবা।
আচ্ছা ভাল হেটেই যাব।
তোমার কলিকাতায় কি কায আছে।
আমার কলিকতায় এই কায ওম্মেদ্বারি।
ভাল তুযি কোথায় ওম্মেদ্বারি করিবা।
আমি বড় বাজারে গৌরহরি পালের নিকটে অনেক দিন ওম্মেদ্বার আছি সে লোকের কায এবার তেলেঙ্গার জাহাজের আড়তদার হইয়াছে। সেখানে গেলে বুঝি এক আধ কায হইতে পারে।
SEEKING EMPLOYMENT
Will you go to Calcutta?
I will go, but must delay it a few days.
I have a little business here; I will go in two or three days after that is done.
Well, I will go also. I must delay a few days.
We'll both go together. When you go be sure to tell me.
Well, I'll tell you two or three days before I go. We'll both go together. Will you go in a boat, or on foot?
I can't afford to go in a boat. How do you go?
Well, we'll walk it.
What business have you at Calcutta?
My business at Calcutta is to seek for work.
Well, where do you expect to get employ?
I have expected it for a long time from Gour-Huri-Pala of the great Bazar. He has now got the disposing of the cargo of a Telinga ship, and the furnishing another cargo. I suppose, if I go there, I may get half the job.
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আমি তাহার মাতুলের এক শুপারিস চিঠি লইয়া গিয়াছিলাম। তিনিও সে চিঠি বহুত মাতবর লিখিয়াছিলেন চিঠি পাইয়া পালজী কহিলেন দেখ এখন আমি বেকার বসিয়া আছি আমার কায হইলে তুমি আইস অবশ্য তোমার উপকার আমাহইতে যে হয় তাহা আই করিব মাতুল মহাশয় তোমার নিমিত্তে আমাকে যে রূপ লিখিয়াছেন এমত আমাকে আর কখন লিখেন নাই আমার কার্য্য শুনিবা মাত্র আসিবা আমি কায করিয়া দিব। এই কথোপকথন তাঁহার সহিত আমার ছিল। এখন তাঁহার কার্য্য হইয়াছে। বুঝি এক আধ দফা করিয়া দিতে পারেন।
ভাল বুঝিলায় তবে তোমার কার্য্য হইতে পারে।
হাঁ বুঝি হইতে পারে তবে বরাত।
তুমি কোথা ওম্মেদ্বার।
আয়ার ওম্মেদ্বারির ঠিকানা নাই কত ঠাঁই গমনাগমন করিতেছি কিছুই হয় না।
I got a letter from his maternal uncle. He recommended me in the strongest terms. When he had read the letter, he told me, You see that I am now without business. When I get a job, do you be sure to come, and I will do something for your advantage. My uncle never wrote to me about any person, in the manner he has written about you. As soon as you hear that I have a job, come, and I will give you employ. I had this conversation with him. Now he has got business. I suppose he may be able to give me half.
Well, then I suppose you will get employment.
Yes, I suppose I may: However it must be as God pleases.
Where do you expect employ?
I have no certain expectation, I have been going from place to place, but to no purpose.
# Dialogues, Intended to Facilitate the Acquiring of the Bengalee Language/Enquiries about a Voyage

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পরিচয়।
তুমি কত দিন ইঙ্গলণ্ড হইতে আইলা।
আমি আর বৎসর শ্রাবণ মাসে বাঙ্গলায় পহুঁছিলাম।
তুমি ইংলণ্ড কি স্কটলণ্ড হইতে আইলা।
আমার জন্মদেশ ঐর্লণ্ড কিন্তু ইঙ্গলণ্ড ছাড়িয়া এখানে আইলাম।
কোন পাঠশালায় বিদ্যা অভ্যাস করিয়াছ।
প্রথমে আমি দব্লিনের এক পাঠশালায় ছিলাম তারপর ইটনে গেলাম।
তুমি কি২ ভাষা শিখিলা।
আমি তিন বৎসর লাটিন অভ্যাস করিলাম ও গ্রীক দুই বৎসর।
তোমরা ইঙ্গলণ্ড ছাড়িয়া কয় মাসে এ দেশে পহুঁছিলা।
আমরা সকল সুদ্ধা আট মাস ছিলাম তাহার মধ্যে পাঁচ মাস সমুদ্রের ওপর ছিলাম ও তিন মাস কেপে থাকিলাম।
তোমরা আগমনে কিছু ব্যামোহ পাইলা কি না।
এক কালে বড় ঝড় ছিল। জাহাজ প্রায় মারা গিয়াছিল।
কোন ভূমি প্রথম দেখিতে পাইলা।
আমরা রাত্রি কালে নদী প্রবেশ করিলাম সকালে উঠিয়া কাল্পির সম্মুখে লঙ্গর ফেলিলাম।
নদীতে হইলে কি ভাবিয়া।
এত দিন জলের ওপর থাকিলে ভূমির দেখাতে বড় আনন্দ ছিল।
লোককে দেখিলে মনে কি হইল।
তাহা কেমন করিয়া বলিব সে আমার মনে নাই। কলিকাতায় পহুঁছিতে আমার বড় ইচ্ছা ছিল। সে কারণ এক পানসি ভাড়া লইয়া শীঘ্র করিয়া এখানে আইলাম।
ENQUIRIES ABOUT A VOYAGE.
How long have you left England?
I arrived in Bengal last year, in the month of Shrabuna.
Did you come from England or Scotland?
I was born in Ireland, but came from England hither.
At what school was you educated?
I was first at Dublin school, but afterwards went to Eton.
What languages did you learn?
I studied Latin three years, and Greek two years.
How long was your voyage to this country?
We were eight months in all: five months on the sea, and three months at the Cape.
Had you any difficulties in your voyage or not?
We had one great storm: the ship was near foundering.
What land did you see first?
We came into the river in the night, and anchored off Kulpee in the morning.
What did you think when you got into the river?
We had been so long on the water that I was very glad to see land.
What did you think when you saw the people?
How can I say that? I don't recollect. I was anxious to get to Calcutta, and therefore hired a pansee, and came up with all speed.
# Dialogues, Intended to Facilitate the Acquiring of the Bengalee Language/Fishermen's Talk

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তিয়রিয়া কথা।
হাড়ে ভেগো মাচকে যাবি কি না আতিতো কোয়া২ করিছে। মুই ফুকারছি তুই ঘুমাইছিস।
বা। এক কাপকড়ে আইয়াছে। হ্যাঁ ম্যাগ পড়েছে এখন কি জালে যাবাড় সময়। যা ছেঁদে তুই মুইতো এখন যাব না। কালি চেড় আতি থাকিতে গিয়াছিনুঁ। যাড় বলে খাবার মাচ পেঁনু না তাতো আজি ম্যাগ পড়েছে। যাত্ব বলে থাবার যাচ পেলু না তাতে আজি ম্যাগ পড়েছে।
FISHERMEN'S TALK.
Haloo, Bhego, will you go a fishing? 'Tis getting light. I called; you was asleep.
Aye, aye, this is an excuse. Hah; it rains: is it time to go to the nets now? Go you to no purpose. I won't go now. Yesterday I went long before light: by so doing I did not get fish to eat, and to-day it rains.
# Dialogues, Intended to Facilitate the Acquiring of the Bengalee Language/Of Eating

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ভোজনের কথা।
বড় ভুক লাগে।
বড় ক্ষুধা হইয়াছে।
আমি ভুকে মরিতেছি।
খাইবার কিছু প্রস্তুত কি না।
কি খাইতে চাহ।
আমি ভাত কিম্বা মৎস্য কিম্বা শাক খাইতে পারি।
খাদ্য মেজের উপর আছে।
ভোজনে বস। হে ভাই তুমি এখানে বস।
কি খাইবা তোমাকে কি দিব।
পীবার জল দেহরে।
এ কি মেজের ওপর নুন নয়।
মদিরা আমার সঙ্গে খাইবা।
পেয়ালা ভরা দেহ।
—— সাহেব আজি এখানে নন কি জন্য।
কিছু মাংস খাইবা। দেখ গরু ও ভেড়া ও ছাগল ও শূকরের মাংস। এ হংস ভাল লাগে কি না। এই উত্তম ব্যঞ্জন সূপকারকে জিজ্ঞাসা কর ইহা কেমন করিয়া পাক করিল।
এ দিব্য ফল কোথায় পাইয়াছ।
আম্র ও আনারস ও পেয়ার ও আতা ও দ্রাক্ষা।
আমি কি এ খরমুজ কাটিব। কিছু লও।
বাঙ্গালায় আমি এমন উত্তম ফল কখন দেখিলাম না।
আমি তৃপ্ত হইয়াছি।
আমার পরিতোষ হইয়াছে।
OF EATING.
I am very hungry.
I have a keen appetite.
I am dying with hunger.
Is there any thing ready to eat or not?
What do you wish to eat?
I can eat boiled rice, or fish, or greens.
Dinner is on the table.
Sit down to eat. Sit here, friend.
What will you eat? What shall I give you?
Give some water to drink.
What's this? there is no salt on the table.
Will you drink wine with me?
Fill the glass.
Why is not Mr. —— here to-day.
Will you eat some meat? Here is beef, and mutton, kid, and pork. Is this duck good or not? This is excellent sauce: call the cook, and ask him how it is made.
Where did you get this excellent fruit?
Mangoes, pine-apples, guavas, custard-apples, and grapes.
Shall I cut this melon? Take a piece.
I never saw so good fruit in Bengal.
I am satisfied.
I have had enough.