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 VII. BENGALI LANGUAGE & LITERATURE. — 939 fact his giant intellect struck every one with the sense of his superiority, and the testimonies of admiration left by Europeans are even more lauda- tory than those which he received from his own countrymen. Sir John Bowring, while greeting him with an address of welcome from the Unitarian Society of London, said ‘I recellect some writers have indulged themselves with inquiring, what they should feel, if any of those time-honoured men, whose names have lived through vicissitudes of ages, should appear among them. They have en- deavoured to imagine what would be their sensa- tions if a Plato, or a Socrates, a Milton or a New- ton, were unexpectedly to honour them with their presence. I recollect that a poet, who has well been called divine, has drawn a beautiful picture of the feelings of those who first visited the scenes of the southern hemisphere, and there saw, for the first time, that beautiful constellation, the Gold Cross. It was with feelings suchas they underwent, that I was overwhelmed when I stretched out in your name the hand of welcome to the Raja Rama Mohana চিত Dr. Booth, an American physician of London, wrote to Mr. Estlin on the 27th November, 1833, “TI have studied his (Raja Rama Mohana Roy’s) writings with a subdued feeling since his death and risen from their perusal with a moze confirmed con- viction of his having been unequalled in past or present time.”’+ The Rev. J. Scott Porter said in a funeral sermon on the death of the Raja— preached t+ Last days of Rama Mohana Roy by Mary Carpenter Page 174.
 * Monthly Repository, June, 1831. (Vol. V, pages 417-20.)