Memoirs of the Life, Writings and Correspondence of Sir William Jones, Volume 1J. Hatchard, 1806 - 531 pages |
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... leaves , and substituted others " with an adulterous legend . In books of some antiquity , it is not uncommon to see a " few new leaves inserted in the room of others that were wanting . 4 " To conceal the more numerous impositions of ...
... leaves , and substituted others " with an adulterous legend . In books of some antiquity , it is not uncommon to see a " few new leaves inserted in the room of others that were wanting . 4 " To conceal the more numerous impositions of ...
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... Leaving the genealogical splendour of the family of Sir William Jones to the contemplation of the antiquary , it may be remarked with pleasure , that its latest descendants have a claim to reputa- tion , founded upon the honourable and ...
... Leaving the genealogical splendour of the family of Sir William Jones to the contemplation of the antiquary , it may be remarked with pleasure , that its latest descendants have a claim to reputa- tion , founded upon the honourable and ...
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... leaving behind him a great reputation and moderate property . The history of men of letters is too often a melancholy detail of human misery , exhibiting the unavailing struggles of genius and learning against penury , and life consumed ...
... leaving behind him a great reputation and moderate property . The history of men of letters is too often a melancholy detail of human misery , exhibiting the unavailing struggles of genius and learning against penury , and life consumed ...
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... leave to publish it in the Philosophical Transactions . You may be assured that I do not move this to you without Sir Isaac's approbation , who I find is no less willing to have it done . The new edition of the Principia is what we wait ...
... leave to publish it in the Philosophical Transactions . You may be assured that I do not move this to you without Sir Isaac's approbation , who I find is no less willing to have it done . The new edition of the Principia is what we wait ...
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... leaves of a Bible in his mother's closet , his attention was forcibly arrested by the sublime description of the angel in the tenth chapter of the Apocalypse , and the impression which his imagination received from it was never effaced ...
... leaves of a Bible in his mother's closet , his attention was forcibly arrested by the sublime description of the angel in the tenth chapter of the Apocalypse , and the impression which his imagination received from it was never effaced ...
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