The Works of Sir William Jones, Volume 1J. Stockdale and J. Walker, 1807 - 13 pages |
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... because I can defire nothing in pre- ference to the general good , which your plan feems calculated to promote , by bringing to light many useful and interesting tracts , which , being too short for separate publication , might lie many ...
... because I can defire nothing in pre- ference to the general good , which your plan feems calculated to promote , by bringing to light many useful and interesting tracts , which , being too short for separate publication , might lie many ...
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... because ignorant travellers thus mis- fpell the word khanjar , which in truth means a different weapon , or fandal - wood from the Greek , because we fuppofe , that fandals were fometimes made of it , we gain no ground in proving the ...
... because ignorant travellers thus mis- fpell the word khanjar , which in truth means a different weapon , or fandal - wood from the Greek , because we fuppofe , that fandals were fometimes made of it , we gain no ground in proving the ...
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... because I find reason to believe it the true centre of population or of knowledge , but , because it is the country , which we now inhabit , and from which we may best furvey the regions around us ; as , in popular language , we speak ...
... because I find reason to believe it the true centre of population or of knowledge , but , because it is the country , which we now inhabit , and from which we may best furvey the regions around us ; as , in popular language , we speak ...
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... because they are believed to have been taught by the Divinity himself , who pre- fcribed the artificial order of them in a voice from heaven . These letters , with no greater variation in their form by the change of straight lines to ...
... because they are believed to have been taught by the Divinity himself , who pre- fcribed the artificial order of them in a voice from heaven . These letters , with no greater variation in their form by the change of straight lines to ...
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... because a full account of each would require a separate volume : it will be fufficient in this differtation to affume , what might be proved beyond controversy , that we now live among the adorers of those very deities , who were ...
... because a full account of each would require a separate volume : it will be fufficient in this differtation to affume , what might be proved beyond controversy , that we now live among the adorers of those very deities , who were ...
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