The Works of Sir William Jones, Volume 2Garland Pub., 1984 - 188 pages |
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Page 73
... same charm- ing climate with Greece , Italy , and Provence ; and another fourth in that of England , Ger- many , and the northern parts of France ; but the Hyperborean countries can have few beauties to recommend them , at least in the ...
... same charm- ing climate with Greece , Italy , and Provence ; and another fourth in that of England , Ger- many , and the northern parts of France ; but the Hyperborean countries can have few beauties to recommend them , at least in the ...
Page 98
... same book , that he was able by memory to correct " an inaccurate reader . ' This paffage had no effect on the tranflator , whom great and learned men in India had affured , it seems , that the work was authentick , by which he meaned ...
... same book , that he was able by memory to correct " an inaccurate reader . ' This paffage had no effect on the tranflator , whom great and learned men in India had affured , it seems , that the work was authentick , by which he meaned ...
Page 149
... same with those on a metal pillar yet standing in the north of India . In Egypt , if we can rely on the teftimony of the Greeks , who studied no language but their own , there were two fets of alphabetical characters ; the one popular ...
... same with those on a metal pillar yet standing in the north of India . In Egypt , if we can rely on the teftimony of the Greeks , who studied no language but their own , there were two fets of alphabetical characters ; the one popular ...
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