The Works of Sir William Jones, Volume 1J. Stockdale and J. Walker, 1807 |
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... studies , and , having cultivated them with affiduity , he be- gan his career in life , by teaching mathema- tics on - board a man of war : and in this fitu- ation he attracted the notice , and obtained the friendship , of Lord Anson ...
... studies , and , having cultivated them with affiduity , he be- gan his career in life , by teaching mathema- tics on - board a man of war : and in this fitu- ation he attracted the notice , and obtained the friendship , of Lord Anson ...
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... studies had not been interrupted . He was of course far behind his fellow - labourers of the fame stand- ing , who erroneously afcribed his infuffici- ency to laziness or dulnefs , while the mafter who had raised him to a fituation ...
... studies had not been interrupted . He was of course far behind his fellow - labourers of the fame stand- ing , who erroneously afcribed his infuffici- ency to laziness or dulnefs , while the mafter who had raised him to a fituation ...
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... studies at the University , and the objections of his mother , founded on reafons of economy , to a profeffion which could not be pursued without confiderable expense , fixed her decifion against the advice of her legal friends . The ...
... studies at the University , and the objections of his mother , founded on reafons of economy , to a profeffion which could not be pursued without confiderable expense , fixed her decifion against the advice of her legal friends . The ...
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... studies , nor was it indeed to be expected , that he would at once renounce his attachment to Oriental learning and literature in general . It would have required more than ordinary refolution to abandon at once , what had coft him fo ...
... studies , nor was it indeed to be expected , that he would at once renounce his attachment to Oriental learning and literature in general . It would have required more than ordinary refolution to abandon at once , what had coft him fo ...
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... - rectness of style , and elegance of method , which at once pleases and perfuades the hearer . But I must lay aside my studies for about fix weeks , while I am printing my Grammar , from which a good deal is expect- ed 173.
... - rectness of style , and elegance of method , which at once pleases and perfuades the hearer . But I must lay aside my studies for about fix weeks , while I am printing my Grammar , from which a good deal is expect- ed 173.
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