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In his discourse of the following year , we find him again mentioning the Mofaic
history , under a supposition , assumed for the sake of the argument which he
was discussing , that it had no higher authority than any other book of history ,
which ...
In his discourse of the following year , we find him again mentioning the Mofaic
history , under a supposition , assumed for the sake of the argument which he
was discussing , that it had no higher authority than any other book of history ,
which ...
Page 275
From the evidence of Con - fut - su or Confucius , it is proved that the Chinese
themselves do not even pretend that , in the age of that philosopher , any
historical monument existed preceding the rise of their third dynasty , above
eleven ...
From the evidence of Con - fut - su or Confucius , it is proved that the Chinese
themselves do not even pretend that , in the age of that philosopher , any
historical monument existed preceding the rise of their third dynasty , above
eleven ...
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The History of India before the Mohammedan Conquest . From the Sanscrit
Cashmir Histories . ARABIA . 15 . The History of Arabia before Mohammed . 16 .
A Translation of the Hamása . 17 . A Translation of Hariri . 18 . A Translation of
the ...
The History of India before the Mohammedan Conquest . From the Sanscrit
Cashmir Histories . ARABIA . 15 . The History of Arabia before Mohammed . 16 .
A Translation of the Hamása . 17 . A Translation of Hariri . 18 . A Translation of
the ...
Page 465
As to his piece , confidered as a literary performance , it contains all the qualities
which Tully lays down as necessary to constitute a perfect history * : nothing is
asserted in it that has the appear- . ance of falsehood ; nor any essential thing ...
As to his piece , confidered as a literary performance , it contains all the qualities
which Tully lays down as necessary to constitute a perfect history * : nothing is
asserted in it that has the appear- . ance of falsehood ; nor any essential thing ...
Page 491
For my part , I cannot help thinking , that a juster notion of the government , laws ,
and policy of the Turks , may be formed by an attentive perufal of Naîma's History
, than can be acquired from all the relations of our European travellers ; and ...
For my part , I cannot help thinking , that a juster notion of the government , laws ,
and policy of the Turks , may be formed by an attentive perufal of Naîma's History
, than can be acquired from all the relations of our European travellers ; and ...
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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.
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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...
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| Title | Works, Volume 2 Works, lady Anna Maria (Shipley) Jones |
| Author | Sir William Jones |
| Editor | lady Anna Maria (Shipley) Jones |
| Publisher | J. Stockdale, 1807 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 2 Dec 2005 |
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