Memoirs of the Life, Writings and Correspondence of Sir William Jones, Volume 1J. Hatchard, 1806 - 531 pages |
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Page 12
... excellent preface , which I wish much to get published in some of the foreign journals ; and since a better account of this book cannot be given , I suppose it will not be difficult to get it done . Now , this great task being done , I ...
... excellent preface , which I wish much to get published in some of the foreign journals ; and since a better account of this book cannot be given , I suppose it will not be difficult to get it done . Now , this great task being done , I ...
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... 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 Rome ; he learned the Arabic characters , and ...
... 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 Rome ; he learned the Arabic characters , and ...
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... excellent instructor . They separated soon after with mutual regret , and in the following term he fixed himself at Oxford . The name of Jones was long remembered at Harrow , with the respect due to his superior talents and unrivalled ...
... excellent instructor . They separated soon after with mutual regret , and in the following term he fixed himself at Oxford . The name of Jones was long remembered at Harrow , with the respect due to his superior talents and unrivalled ...
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... excellent library , in which he found intellectual treasures of the highest value in his estimation ; scarcely a single book escaped his inspection ; and some of the most rare he perused with indefatigable application . It was at this ...
... excellent library , in which he found intellectual treasures of the highest value in his estimation ; scarcely a single book escaped his inspection ; and some of the most rare he perused with indefatigable application . It was at this ...
Page 38
... excellent German Grammar and Dic- tionary ; the pronunciation he had formerly learnt from a fellow collegian , who had passed some years at Brunswick . He would gladly have availed himself of the instruction of a German master ; but ...
... excellent German Grammar and Dic- tionary ; the pronunciation he had formerly learnt from a fellow collegian , who had passed some years at Brunswick . He would gladly have availed himself of the instruction of a German master ; but ...
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