The Works of Sir William Jones, Volume 2Garland Pub., 1984 - 188 pages |
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... writing ; to their pre- dilection in favour of poetical measure , and to the facility , with which verses are committed to memory ; but all their ftories prove , that they were eloquent in a high degree , and poffeffed wonderful powers ...
... writing ; to their pre- dilection in favour of poetical measure , and to the facility , with which verses are committed to memory ; but all their ftories prove , that they were eloquent in a high degree , and poffeffed wonderful powers ...
Page 82
... writing it , was to display his power of words in a flow- ing and modulated period . He says further , that in ... writers at all · among his natural - born fubjects ; and we are 82 THE FIFTH DISCOURSE ,
... writing it , was to display his power of words in a flow- ing and modulated period . He says further , that in ... writers at all · among his natural - born fubjects ; and we are 82 THE FIFTH DISCOURSE ,
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... writing , is evidently a fort of broken Cúfick ; and the fine manuscript at Oxford , from which it was taken , is more probably a Mendean work on some religious subject than , as he ima- gined , a code of Tartarian laws . That very ...
... writing , is evidently a fort of broken Cúfick ; and the fine manuscript at Oxford , from which it was taken , is more probably a Mendean work on some religious subject than , as he ima- gined , a code of Tartarian laws . That very ...
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