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MEMOIRS 
OF THE 
LITERARY & PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, 
OF 
Manchester. 
I I LSI IL ISIS 
SKETCH 
OF 
THE LIFE AND WRITINGS 
FERDOOSEE. 
By SAMUEL ROBINSON, Esa. 
Read before the Society, Dec. 24th, 1819. 
THe Literature of any nation, however 
different its tone and character from that of 
our own country, or however inferior the works 
which compose it to those we have been ac- 
customed to regard as the models of a correct 
taste, is yet a subject of reasonable curiosity, 
and useful inquiry, inasmuch as it tends to 
elucidate the natural history and moral cha- 
racter of a portion of the human race. It is 
hoped therefore that the following sketch of 
