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Precepts of Jesus

THE

GUIDE TO PEACE AND HAPPINESS,

EXTRACTED FROM THE

BOOKS OF the new TESTAMENT

ASCRIBED TO THE FOUR EVANGELISTS.

TO WHICH ARE ADDED,

THE FIRST AND SECOND

APPEAL TO THE CHRISTIAN PUBLIC

IN REPLY TO THE

OBSERVATIONS OF DR. MARSHMAN,

OF SERAMPORE.

BY RAMMOHUN ROY.

CALCUTTA, PRINTED :

London,

REPRINTED BY THE UNITARIAN SOCIETY, AND SOLD BY R. HUNTER, 72, ST. PAUL'S CHURCHYARD; DAVID EATON, 187, HIGH HOLBORN; AND C. FOX AND co. 33, THREAD

NEEDLE STREET.

(1080)

G. SMALLFIELD, Printer, Hackney.

вт 306 .R3

1823

PREFACE.

THE works which are here presented to the British public cannot fail to excite much interest from the circumstances and character of the author. He has been for several years well known by name and reputation, both in India and in England; but he has been known only as a learned and philanthropic Brahmin, the expounder of the religion, and the reformer of the institutions of his Hindoo countrymen. He now appears as a Christian professor, advocate, and controversialist.

Rammohun Roy was born about the year 1780, at Bordouan, in the province of Bengal. The first elements of his education he received under his paternal roof, where he also acquired a knowledge of the Persian language. He was afterwards sent to Patna to learn Arabic; and here, through the medium of Arabic translations of Aristotle and Euclid, he studied logic and the mathematics. When he had completed these studies he went to Calcutta, to learn Sanscrit, the sacred language of the Hindoo Scriptures; the knowledge of

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