The Works of Sir William Jones ...G. G. and J. Robinson, 1799 |
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... himself master of the Sanferit ; and the most enlightened profeffors of the doctrines of BRAHMA confefs with pride , delight , and furprise , that his knowledge of their facred dialect was moft critically correct and profound . The ...
... himself master of the Sanferit ; and the most enlightened profeffors of the doctrines of BRAHMA confefs with pride , delight , and furprise , that his knowledge of their facred dialect was moft critically correct and profound . The ...
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... himself annex to them . They fhow the activity of a vigorous mind , its fertility , its genius , and its taste . Nor fhall I particularly dwell on the discourses addressed to this Society , which we have all perufed or heard , or on the ...
... himself annex to them . They fhow the activity of a vigorous mind , its fertility , its genius , and its taste . Nor fhall I particularly dwell on the discourses addressed to this Society , which we have all perufed or heard , or on the ...
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... himself formed a determination to complete the works which his genius and knowledge had thus sketched ; the task feems to require a period , beyond the pro- bable duration of any human life ; but we , who had the happiness to know Sir ...
... himself formed a determination to complete the works which his genius and knowledge had thus sketched ; the task feems to require a period , beyond the pro- bable duration of any human life ; but we , who had the happiness to know Sir ...
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... himself acquainted with the interefting discoveries lately made in chy- mistry ; and I have heard him affert , that his admiration of the ftruc- ture of the human frame , had induced him to attend for a season to a course of anatomical ...
... himself acquainted with the interefting discoveries lately made in chy- mistry ; and I have heard him affert , that his admiration of the ftruc- ture of the human frame , had induced him to attend for a season to a course of anatomical ...
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... himself of the Faculty , mentions approved medical books in Sanfcrit , and cites a few aphorifms , which appear judicious and rational ; but we can expect nothing fo important from the works of Hindu or Mufelman physicians , as the ...
... himself of the Faculty , mentions approved medical books in Sanfcrit , and cites a few aphorifms , which appear judicious and rational ; but we can expect nothing fo important from the works of Hindu or Mufelman physicians , as the ...
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