The Works of Sir William Jones, Volume 2Garland Pub., 1984 - 188 pages |
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Page 85
... learned native fet me right when I used another word , Turcì ; not that it is precisely the fame with the Turkish of the Othmánlu's , but the two idioms differ , perhaps , less then Swedish and German , or Spanish and Portuguese , and ...
... learned native fet me right when I used another word , Turcì ; not that it is precisely the fame with the Turkish of the Othmánlu's , but the two idioms differ , perhaps , less then Swedish and German , or Spanish and Portuguese , and ...
Page 92
... learned to defpife his own . He was unquef- tionably a man of a found understanding and fine parts ; and , among the lively fayings , which gained him the reputation of a wit even in Greece , it is related by DIOGENES LAERTIUS , that ...
... learned to defpife his own . He was unquef- tionably a man of a found understanding and fine parts ; and , among the lively fayings , which gained him the reputation of a wit even in Greece , it is related by DIOGENES LAERTIUS , that ...
Page 139
... learned and most ingenious , of nations ; whilft others have derided their pretenfions to antiquity , condemned their govern- ment as abominable , and arraigned their man- ners as inhuman , without allowing them an element of science ...
... learned and most ingenious , of nations ; whilft others have derided their pretenfions to antiquity , condemned their govern- ment as abominable , and arraigned their man- ners as inhuman , without allowing them an element of science ...
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