Memoirs of the Life, Writings and Correspondence of Sir William Jones, Volume 1J. Hatchard, 1806 - 531 pages |
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Page viii
... and correspondence . Of the events of his life between 1768 , his twenty - second year , and the date of his embarkation for India in 1783 , my information is is less complete , although I have spared no diligence viii PREFACE .
... and correspondence . Of the events of his life between 1768 , his twenty - second year , and the date of his embarkation for India in 1783 , my information is is less complete , although I have spared no diligence viii PREFACE .
Page ix
John Shore Baron Teignmouth. is less complete , although I have spared no diligence in endeavour- ing to collect all that could be obtained . I was in hopes that the recollection of his contemporaries at Oxford , where he occasionally ...
John Shore Baron Teignmouth. is less complete , although I have spared no diligence in endeavour- ing to collect all that could be obtained . I was in hopes that the recollection of his contemporaries at Oxford , where he occasionally ...
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... complete . We have nothing considerable in hand here at present , only Mr. Demoire's Treatise on Chances , which makes a whole transaction . He is very fond of it , and we may expect it well done . Mr. Raphson has printed off four or ...
... complete . We have nothing considerable in hand here at present , only Mr. Demoire's Treatise on Chances , which makes a whole transaction . He is very fond of it , and we may expect it well done . Mr. Raphson has printed off four or ...
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... complete years which he passed under that excellent instructor , it is sufficient to say , that he employed them in reading and imitating the best ancient authors ; nor did he confine himself merely to the compositions of Greece and ...
... complete years which he passed under that excellent instructor , it is sufficient to say , that he employed them in reading and imitating the best ancient authors ; nor did he confine himself merely to the compositions of Greece and ...
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... complete and finished , whilst in the Kasidah , the sentiment is continued through successive lines . Of this species of composition , I do not know a more perfect specimen , than the poem on the death of Mohammed , so celebrated ...
... complete and finished , whilst in the Kasidah , the sentiment is continued through successive lines . Of this species of composition , I do not know a more perfect specimen , than the poem on the death of Mohammed , so celebrated ...
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