Memoirs of the Life, Writings and Correspondence of Sir William Jones, Volume 1J. Hatchard, 1806 - 531 pages |
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... soon after , in July 1749 , 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 ...
... soon after , in July 1749 , 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 ...
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... soon acquired a proficiency in all the varieties of Roman metre , so that he was able to scan the trochaic and iambic verses of Terence , before his companions even suspected that they were any thing but mere prose . He also learned to ...
... soon acquired a proficiency in all the varieties of Roman metre , so that he was able to scan the trochaic and iambic verses of Terence , before his companions even suspected that they were any thing but mere prose . He also learned to ...
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... soon became the prime favourite of his master , who with an excusable partiality was heard to declare , that Jones knew more Greek than himself , and was a greater proficient in the idiom of that language . Nor was he less a favourite ...
... soon became the prime favourite of his master , who with an excusable partiality was heard to declare , that Jones knew more Greek than himself , and was a greater proficient in the idiom of that language . Nor was he less a favourite ...
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... 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 erudition ; and he was frequently ...
... 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 erudition ; and he was frequently ...
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... soon subsided , and his time now passed with great satisfaction to himself . He found in it , all the means and opportunity of instruction which he could wish ; and adopted that respectful attachment to it , which he ever after retained ...
... soon subsided , and his time now passed with great satisfaction to himself . He found in it , all the means and opportunity of instruction which he could wish ; and adopted that respectful attachment to it , which he ever after retained ...
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