The Works of Sir William Jones, Volume 2Garland Pub., 1984 - 188 pages |
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Page 74
... known to the Greeks by the name of Serica , and confidered by them as the farthest eastern extremity of the habitable globe . Scythia feems to be the general name , which the ancient Europeans gave to as much as they knew of the country ...
... known to the Greeks by the name of Serica , and confidered by them as the farthest eastern extremity of the habitable globe . Scythia feems to be the general name , which the ancient Europeans gave to as much as they knew of the country ...
Page 124
... known ; but , in all the other in- scriptions of the fame fort , the characters are too complex , and the variations of them too nu- merous , to admit an opinion , that they could be fymbols of articulate founds ; for even the Ná- gari ...
... known ; but , in all the other in- scriptions of the fame fort , the characters are too complex , and the variations of them too nu- merous , to admit an opinion , that they could be fymbols of articulate founds ; for even the Ná- gari ...
Page 169
... known Sanferit word , where they turn in an eastern direction , and Paropamifus , where they join Imaus in the north , were anciently dif- tinguished among the Bráhmans by the name of Deradas , but seem to have been destroyed or ...
... known Sanferit word , where they turn in an eastern direction , and Paropamifus , where they join Imaus in the north , were anciently dif- tinguished among the Bráhmans by the name of Deradas , but seem to have been destroyed or ...
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