The Works of Sir William Jones, Volume 2Garland Pub., 1984 - 188 pages |
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Page 74
... Greeks and Perfians , or , as BRYANT imagines , from Cutbia , or , as Colonel VALLANCEY believes , from words denoting navigation , or , as it might have been fuppofed , from a Greek root implying wrath and ferocity , this at least is ...
... Greeks and Perfians , or , as BRYANT imagines , from Cutbia , or , as Colonel VALLANCEY believes , from words denoting navigation , or , as it might have been fuppofed , from a Greek root implying wrath and ferocity , this at least is ...
Page 107
... Greek alphabet could not exprefs : nor will a dif- ference of names affect the question ; fince the Greeks had little regard for truth , which they facrificed willingly to the Graces of their lan- guage , and the nicety of their ears ...
... Greek alphabet could not exprefs : nor will a dif- ference of names affect the question ; fince the Greeks had little regard for truth , which they facrificed willingly to the Graces of their lan- guage , and the nicety of their ears ...
Page 23
... Greeks and Latins , whom they called ZEUS and JUPITER , with irregular in- flexions Dios and Jovis , was not merely Ful- minator , the Thunderer , but , like the destroying power of India , MAGNUS DIVUS , ULTOR , GENITOR ; like the ...
... Greeks and Latins , whom they called ZEUS and JUPITER , with irregular in- flexions Dios and Jovis , was not merely Ful- minator , the Thunderer , but , like the destroying power of India , MAGNUS DIVUS , ULTOR , GENITOR ; like the ...
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