Memoirs of the Life, Writings and Correspondence of Sir William Jones, Volume 1J. Hatchard, 1806 - 531 pages |
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... success , and I am chiefly indebted to his correspondence for the information which I have been able to communicate .盏 In the arrangement of these materials , it was my wish , as far as possible , to make Sir William Jones describe ...
... success , and I am chiefly indebted to his correspondence for the information which I have been able to communicate .盏 In the arrangement of these materials , it was my wish , as far as possible , to make Sir William Jones describe ...
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... success , relating the anecdote by which he gained it . He returned with the fleet to England , and immediately afterwards established himself as a teacher of mathe- matics , in London ; where , at the age of twenty - six , he published ...
... success , relating the anecdote by which he gained it . He returned with the fleet to England , and immediately afterwards established himself as a teacher of mathe- matics , in London ; where , at the age of twenty - six , he published ...
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... success of it so much depends upon the judgment of the tutor , and the capacity of the scholar , upon the skill of the one , as well as upon the disposition and powers of the other , that it is impossible to prescribe a general rule ...
... success of it so much depends upon the judgment of the tutor , and the capacity of the scholar , upon the skill of the one , as well as upon the disposition and powers of the other , that it is impossible to prescribe a general rule ...
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... him ; and having thus acquired 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 been degraded , but was at the head of his 16 MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE OF.
... him ; and having thus acquired 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 been degraded , but was at the head of his 16 MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE OF.
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... success with which his studies had latterly been pursued , left him no reason to regret the disadvantages under which he had at first laboured . His improve- ment in the knowledge of prosody was truly extraordinary ; he soon acquired a ...
... success with which his studies had latterly been pursued , left him no reason to regret the disadvantages under which he had at first laboured . His improve- ment in the knowledge of prosody was truly extraordinary ; he soon acquired a ...
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