Chapter 2
1. Benjamin Franklin (1706–90): US Statesman, diplomat, printer, publisher, inventor and scientist.Jacob Cornelis Matthien Radermacher (1741–83): Officer of the Dutch East India Company at Batavia (Jakarta).William Jones (1746–94): English orientalist and jurist.
2. S. Chowdhury, Proceedings of the Asiatic Society (1784–1800), I, pp. 21–22.
3. Warren Hastings (1732–1818): English colonial administrator.
4. Joshua Reynolds (1723–92): First president of Royal Academy, London.
5. Samuel Johnson (1709–84): English writer, critic, lexicographer and conversationalist.Edward Gibbon (1773–94): English historian.Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816): Irish dramatist.Edmund Burke (1729–97): Irish statesman and philosopher.David Garrick (1717–79): ...
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