The Works of Sir William Jones, Volume 1J. Stockdale and J. Walker, 1807 |
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... England , might have fupplied fome material anecdotes , and that farther information might have been procured from his companions in Westminster Hall , or on the Circuit , but my X refearches have had little fuccefs , and I am chiefly ix.
... England , might have fupplied fome material anecdotes , and that farther information might have been procured from his companions in Westminster Hall , or on the Circuit , but my X refearches have had little fuccefs , and I am chiefly ix.
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... England , and immediately after- wards established himself as a teacher of ma- thematics , in London ; where , at the age of twenty - fix , he published his Synopfis palma- ricrum Mathefeos ; a decifive proof of his early and confummate ...
... England , and immediately after- wards established himself as a teacher of ma- thematics , in London ; where , at the age of twenty - fix , he published his Synopfis palma- ricrum Mathefeos ; a decifive proof of his early and confummate ...
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... England with those of other countries , and he marked with delight their uncontroverted claim to fuperiority over the laws of every other state , ancient or modern . Of this fact he acknow- ledged that he had never before entertained an ...
... England with those of other countries , and he marked with delight their uncontroverted claim to fuperiority over the laws of every other state , ancient or modern . Of this fact he acknow- ledged that he had never before entertained an ...
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William Jones. dir Shah , which he was defirous of having tranflated in England . The Secretary of State with whom the Danish minister had converfed upon the subject , fent the volume to Mr. Jones , requesting him to give a literal ...
William Jones. dir Shah , which he was defirous of having tranflated in England . The Secretary of State with whom the Danish minister had converfed upon the subject , fent the volume to Mr. Jones , requesting him to give a literal ...
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... England , at that time , capable of producing a work , which required a critical knowledge of two foreign languages , one of which was scarcely known in Europe . Indeed , when we confider the accuracy of the translation , which has been ...
... England , at that time , capable of producing a work , which required a critical knowledge of two foreign languages , one of which was scarcely known in Europe . Indeed , when we confider the accuracy of the translation , which has been ...
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