Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Correspondence, of Sir William Jones |
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... Principles of Arithmetic and Geometry , de- monstrated in a short and easy Method , 8vo . 1706 . In the Philosophical Transactions : A Compendious Disposition of Equations for exhibiting the Relations of Geometrical Lines . The care of ...
... Principles of Arithmetic and Geometry , de- monstrated in a short and easy Method , 8vo . 1706 . In the Philosophical Transactions : A Compendious Disposition of Equations for exhibiting the Relations of Geometrical Lines . The care of ...
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... principles , he applied them with such skill and success , that , in a few months , he not only recovered the station from which he had been degraded , but was at the head of his class : his compositions were correct , his analysis ...
... principles , he applied them with such skill and success , that , in a few months , he not only recovered the station from which he had been degraded , but was at the head of his class : his compositions were correct , his analysis ...
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... principles of virtue , and the " first symptoms of those talents which afterwards so- " " eminently distinguished the character of Sir William " Jones . He gave very early proofs of his possessing " very extraordinary abilities . His ...
... principles of virtue , and the " first symptoms of those talents which afterwards so- " " eminently distinguished the character of Sir William " Jones . He gave very early proofs of his possessing " very extraordinary abilities . His ...
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... principles , on subjects of taste , on rhetoric , poetry , and practical morals , he com- plained that he was required to attend dull comments on artificial ethics , and logic , detailed in such barbarous La- tin , that he professed to ...
... principles , on subjects of taste , on rhetoric , poetry , and practical morals , he com- plained that he was required to attend dull comments on artificial ethics , and logic , detailed in such barbarous La- tin , that he professed to ...
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... principles of the art , gave him little delight . I know not that he ever afterwards resumed the practice of the harp , nor is it to be regretted that he employed the time , which must have been dedicated to SIR WILLIAM JONES . 43.
... principles of the art , gave him little delight . I know not that he ever afterwards resumed the practice of the harp , nor is it to be regretted that he employed the time , which must have been dedicated to SIR WILLIAM JONES . 43.
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