The Works of Sir William Jones, Volume 2Garland Pub., 1984 - 188 pages |
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Page 51
... beginning of the Seventh century , the effects of which we feel at this day from the Pyrenean mountains and the Danube , to the fartheft parts of the In- dian Empire , and even to the Eastern Islands . I. For the knowledge , which any ...
... beginning of the Seventh century , the effects of which we feel at this day from the Pyrenean mountains and the Danube , to the fartheft parts of the In- dian Empire , and even to the Eastern Islands . I. For the knowledge , which any ...
Page 109
... beginning of the Affyrian empire , we are deluded , as in a thousand inftances , by names arbitrarily imposed : it had been fettled by chronologers , that the first monarchy established in Perfia was the Affyrian ; and NEWTON , finding ...
... beginning of the Affyrian empire , we are deluded , as in a thousand inftances , by names arbitrarily imposed : it had been fettled by chronologers , that the first monarchy established in Perfia was the Affyrian ; and NEWTON , finding ...
Page 99
... beginning of it we learn , that the Véda's are confidered by the Hindus as the fountain of all knowledge human and divine ; whence the verses of them are faid in the Gitŕ to be the leaves of that holy tree , to which the Almighty ...
... beginning of it we learn , that the Véda's are confidered by the Hindus as the fountain of all knowledge human and divine ; whence the verses of them are faid in the Gitŕ to be the leaves of that holy tree , to which the Almighty ...
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