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... Society in London , of which the King is the patron , and at the first meeting , it was therefore agreed , to address the Governor - General and Council of Bengal , explaining the objects of the fociety , and foliciting the honour of ...
... Society in London , of which the King is the patron , and at the first meeting , it was therefore agreed , to address the Governor - General and Council of Bengal , explaining the objects of the fociety , and foliciting the honour of ...
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... society . Mr. Haftings entered into the fervice of the Eaft - India company , with all the ad- vantages of a regular claffical education , and with a mind ftrongly impreffed with the plcafures of literature . The common dialects of ...
... society . Mr. Haftings entered into the fervice of the Eaft - India company , with all the ad- vantages of a regular claffical education , and with a mind ftrongly impreffed with the plcafures of literature . The common dialects of ...
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... Society , but is not published in them . " Just after sun - set , on the 5th of October 1784 , I " had a distinct view from Bhagilpoor of CHUMALURY " peak , and the adjoining mountains of TIBET , which are very clearly seen from Perneia ...
... Society , but is not published in them . " Just after sun - set , on the 5th of October 1784 , I " had a distinct view from Bhagilpoor of CHUMALURY " peak , and the adjoining mountains of TIBET , which are very clearly seen from Perneia ...
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... Society , but is not published in them . 66 " Just after sun - set , on the 5th of October 1784 , I " had a distinct view from Bhagilpoor of CHUMALURY peak , and the adjoining mountains of TIBET , which " are very clearly seen from ...
... Society , but is not published in them . 66 " Just after sun - set , on the 5th of October 1784 , I " had a distinct view from Bhagilpoor of CHUMALURY peak , and the adjoining mountains of TIBET , which " are very clearly seen from ...
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... the year 1785 , a periodical work was undertaken at Calcutta , under the title of the Afiatick Miscellany , which has been ignorant- ly ascribed to the Afiatick Society , with whose researches it had no connection . The title of the 68.
... the year 1785 , a periodical work was undertaken at Calcutta , under the title of the Afiatick Miscellany , which has been ignorant- ly ascribed to the Afiatick Society , with whose researches it had no connection . The title of the 68.
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Page 248 - The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists...
Page 152 - Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Page 152 - ... her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world : all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power : both Angels and men and creatures of what condition soever, though each in different sort and manner, yet all with uniform consent, admiring her as the mother of their peace and joy.
Page 61 - On parent knees, a naked new-born child Weeping thou sat'st while all around thee smiled ; So live, that sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou mayst smile, while all around thee weep.
Page 249 - Lyceum; nor is it possible to read the Vedanta, or the many fine compositions in illustration of it, without believing, that Pythagoras and Plato derived their sublime theories from the same fountain with the sages of India.
Page 283 - PERSIA. 19. The History of Persia, from Authorities in Sanscrit, Arabic, Greek, Turkish, Persian, Ancient and Modern. 20. The Five Poems of Nizami, translated in Prose. A Dictionary of pure Persian — Jehangiri.
Page 279 - But what appears to me," adds his lordship, " more particularly to have enabled him to employ his talents so much to his own and the public advantage, was the regular allotment of his time...
Page 246 - Oriental learning in illuftrating topics of great importance in the hiftory of mankind ; and it is much to be lamented, that he did not live to revife and improve them in England, with the advantages of accumulated knowledge and uhdifturbed Jeifure*.
Page 257 - Hebrew, is certain; and a cursory examination of maoy old inscriptions on pillars and in caves, leaves little doubt, that the Nagari and Ethiopian letters had a similar form. It is supposed, that the Abyssinians of the Arabian stock having no letters, borrowed those of the black Pagans, whom the Greeks called Troglodytes ; and upon the whole, it seems probable that the Ethiops of Meroe were the same people with the first Egyptians, and consequently, as it might easily be shewn, with the original...
Page 205 - GOD, and the harsh admonitions even to kings, are truly noble ; and the many panegyricks on the Gayatri, the Mother, as it is called, of the Veda, prove the author to have adored (not the visible material sun, but) that divine and incomparably greater light, to use the words of the most venerable text in the Indian scripture, which illumines all, delights all, from which all...