The Works of Sir William Jones, Volume 1J. Stockdale and J. Walker, 1807 |
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... whole Art of Navigation , small 8vo . 1702 . Synopsis palmariorum Matheseos ; or a new Intro- duction to the Mathematics , containing the principles of arithmetic and geometry , demonstrated in a short and easy method ; 8vo . 1706 . In ...
... whole Art of Navigation , small 8vo . 1702 . Synopsis palmariorum Matheseos ; or a new Intro- duction to the Mathematics , containing the principles of arithmetic and geometry , demonstrated in a short and easy method ; 8vo . 1706 . In ...
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... whole transaction . He is very fond of it , and we may expect it well done . Mr. Raphson has printed off four or five sheets of his history of Fluxions , but being shewed Sir Isaac Newton's ( who it seems would rather have them write ...
... whole transaction . He is very fond of it , and we may expect it well done . Mr. Raphson has printed off four or five sheets of his history of Fluxions , but being shewed Sir Isaac Newton's ( who it seems would rather have them write ...
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... a person concerned , has undertaken to defend and answer some things , as Dr. Friend and Dr. Mead do in their way , the rest . I would have sent you the whole controversy , was I not 46 giddy , clofe but not fullen , ingenious but 15.
... a person concerned , has undertaken to defend and answer some things , as Dr. Friend and Dr. Mead do in their way , the rest . I would have sent you the whole controversy , was I not 46 giddy , clofe but not fullen , ingenious but 15.
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... Arabic characters , and ftudied the Hebrew language fufficiently to enable him to read fome of the Pfalms in the original . His ardour for knowledge was fo unlimited , that he frequently devoted whole nights to ftudy 36.
... Arabic characters , and ftudied the Hebrew language fufficiently to enable him to read fome of the Pfalms in the original . His ardour for knowledge was fo unlimited , that he frequently devoted whole nights to ftudy 36.
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William Jones. unlimited , that he frequently devoted whole nights to ftudy , taking coffee or tea as an an- tidote to drowsinefs ; and his improvement by these extraordinary exertions was fo rapid , that he foon became the prime ...
William Jones. unlimited , that he frequently devoted whole nights to ftudy , taking coffee or tea as an an- tidote to drowsinefs ; and his improvement by these extraordinary exertions was fo rapid , that he foon became the prime ...
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