The Works of Sir William Jones ...G. G. and J. Robinson, 1799 |
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... most accurate , and comprehenfive account , yet extant , of Sir William Jones's enlarged views , and literary labours ; and tends to illustrate a character already endeared to mankind , wherever Religion , Science , and Philofophy ...
... most accurate , and comprehenfive account , yet extant , of Sir William Jones's enlarged views , and literary labours ; and tends to illustrate a character already endeared to mankind , wherever Religion , Science , and Philofophy ...
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... most cheerfully accept your invitation , with every inclination to affift , as far as my abilities extend , in promoting the laudable views of your affocia- tion , I must still retain the consciousness of those difqualifications , which ...
... most cheerfully accept your invitation , with every inclination to affift , as far as my abilities extend , in promoting the laudable views of your affocia- tion , I must still retain the consciousness of those difqualifications , which ...
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... most learned Afiaticks have the candour to avow , that his knowledge of Arabick and Perfian was as accurate and extensive as their own ; he was also converfant in the Turkish idiom , and the Chinese had even attracted his notice , fo ...
... most learned Afiaticks have the candour to avow , that his knowledge of Arabick and Perfian was as accurate and extensive as their own ; he was also converfant in the Turkish idiom , and the Chinese had even attracted his notice , fo ...
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... most amply difcuffed in the dif- quifitions which he laid before the Society . DESIDERATA . INDIA . 1. - The Ancient Geography of India , & c . from the Puranas . 2. - A Botanical Description of Indian Plants , from the Cofhas , & c . 3 ...
... most amply difcuffed in the dif- quifitions which he laid before the Society . DESIDERATA . INDIA . 1. - The Ancient Geography of India , & c . from the Puranas . 2. - A Botanical Description of Indian Plants , from the Cofhas , & c . 3 ...
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... most enlarged minds ; but the catalogue may yet be augmented . To a proficiency in the languages of Greece , Rome , and Afia , he added the knowledge of the philosophy of those countries , and of every thing curious and valuable that ...
... most enlarged minds ; but the catalogue may yet be augmented . To a proficiency in the languages of Greece , Rome , and Afia , he added the knowledge of the philosophy of those countries , and of every thing curious and valuable that ...
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