The Works of Sir William Jones, Volume 2Garland Pub., 1984 - 188 pages |
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... remarkable in- stances : the Sanfcrit , like the Greek , Perfian , and German , delights in compounds , but , in a much higher degree , and indeed to fuch excefs , that I could produce words of more than twenty fyllables , not formed ...
... remarkable in- stances : the Sanfcrit , like the Greek , Perfian , and German , delights in compounds , but , in a much higher degree , and indeed to fuch excefs , that I could produce words of more than twenty fyllables , not formed ...
Page 157
William Jones. them and the old Hindus : as in the remarkable period of four hundred and thirty two thousand , and the cycle of fixty , years ; in the predilection for the mystical number nine ; in many fimilar fasts and ... remarkable ...
William Jones. them and the old Hindus : as in the remarkable period of four hundred and thirty two thousand , and the cycle of fixty , years ; in the predilection for the mystical number nine ; in many fimilar fasts and ... remarkable ...
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... remarkable fact was imparted , suggested to me , that those very words might have been taken from old Egyptian , and that the Gypfies were Troglodytes from the rocks near Thebes , where a race of banditti ftill resemble them in their ...
... remarkable fact was imparted , suggested to me , that those very words might have been taken from old Egyptian , and that the Gypfies were Troglodytes from the rocks near Thebes , where a race of banditti ftill resemble them in their ...
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