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| | Joshua Marshman - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) |
 | | JOSHUA MARSHMAN (1768-1837), English Baptist missionary and orientalist, was born on the 10th of April 1768, at Westbury Leigh, in Wiltshire. |
 | | His son, John Clark Marshman (1794-1877), was official Bengali translator; he published a Guide to the Civil Law which, before the work of Macaulay, was the civil code of India, and wrote a History of India (1842). |
 | | Marshman translated into Chinese the book of Genesis, the Gospels, and the Epistles of Paul to the Romans and the Corinthians; in 1811 he published The Works of Confucius, containing the Original Text, with a Translation, and in 1814 his Clavis Sinica. |
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