The Works of Sir William Jones ...G. G. and J. Robinson, 1799 |
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... last work , I cannot deny myself the gratification of quoting the fentiments of a celebrated hiftorian : " Sir " William Jones has given an ingenious and rational effay on the law " of Bailments . He is perhaps the only lawyer equally ...
... last work , I cannot deny myself the gratification of quoting the fentiments of a celebrated hiftorian : " Sir " William Jones has given an ingenious and rational effay on the law " of Bailments . He is perhaps the only lawyer equally ...
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... last and favourite purfuit , was the study of Botany , which he originally began under the confinement of a fevere and lingering dif- order , which with most minds , would have proved a disqualification from any application . It ...
... last and favourite purfuit , was the study of Botany , which he originally began under the confinement of a fevere and lingering dif- order , which with most minds , would have proved a disqualification from any application . It ...
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... last August , on my voyage to this country , which I had long and ardently defired to visit , I found one evening , on inspecting the obfervations of the day , that India lay before us , and Perfia on our left , whilst a breeze from ...
... last August , on my voyage to this country , which I had long and ardently defired to visit , I found one evening , on inspecting the obfervations of the day , that India lay before us , and Perfia on our left , whilst a breeze from ...
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... last year to gratify my warmest wishes , I could have defired nothing more ar- dently than the success of your institution ; because I can defire nothing in preference to the general good , which your plan seems calculated to promote ...
... last year to gratify my warmest wishes , I could have defired nothing more ar- dently than the success of your institution ; because I can defire nothing in preference to the general good , which your plan seems calculated to promote ...
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... last mentioned art , than which none furely can be more beneficial to mankind , the virtues of minerals also should be accurately known . So highly has medical skill been prized by the ancient Indians , that one of the fourteen Retna's ...
... last mentioned art , than which none furely can be more beneficial to mankind , the virtues of minerals also should be accurately known . So highly has medical skill been prized by the ancient Indians , that one of the fourteen Retna's ...
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