The Works of Sir William Jones, Volume 2Garland Pub., 1984 - 188 pages |
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Page 81
... first regular establishments of the Hindus and Arabs in their several countries . I. Our first inquiry , concerning the languages and letters of the Tartars , prefents us with a de- plorable void , or with a prospect as barren and ...
... first regular establishments of the Hindus and Arabs in their several countries . I. Our first inquiry , concerning the languages and letters of the Tartars , prefents us with a de- plorable void , or with a prospect as barren and ...
Page 166
... first a similar form . It has long been my opinion , that the Abyffinians of the Arabian stock , having no fym- bols of their own to reprefent articulate founds , borrowed those of the black pagans , whom the Greeks call Troglodytes ...
... first a similar form . It has long been my opinion , that the Abyffinians of the Arabian stock , having no fym- bols of their own to reprefent articulate founds , borrowed those of the black pagans , whom the Greeks call Troglodytes ...
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... first apparently relate to fome ftupendous convulfion of our globe from the fountains of the deep , and the fourth exhibits the miraculous punishment of pride and impiety : first , as we have shown , there was , in the opinion of the ...
... first apparently relate to fome ftupendous convulfion of our globe from the fountains of the deep , and the fourth exhibits the miraculous punishment of pride and impiety : first , as we have shown , there was , in the opinion of the ...
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