| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - Born on 7 February 1837 in the Scottish village of Denholm, near Hawick, the son of a tailor, he reputedly knew his alphabet by the time he was eighteen months old, and was soon showing a precocious interest in other languages, including???at the age of 7???Chinese, in the form of a page of the Bible which he laboriously copied out until he could work out the symbols for such words as God and ligh
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