Memoirs of the Life, Writings and Correspondence of Sir William Jones, Volume 1J. Hatchard, 1806 - 531 pages |
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... thanks for ; and , as you have some further considerations about the Doctrine of Differences , I am assured that they cannot but be valuable ; and if a few instances of the application were given , perhaps it would not be amiss . Having ...
... thanks for ; and , as you have some further considerations about the Doctrine of Differences , I am assured that they cannot but be valuable ; and if a few instances of the application were given , perhaps it would not be amiss . Having ...
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... thank you for the favour you did me in sending it . I have looked over what relates to his way of interpolation ; but I find no cause from thence to make any alteration . The controversy concerning Sir Isaac's philosophy is a piece of ...
... thank you for the favour you did me in sending it . I have looked over what relates to his way of interpolation ; but I find no cause from thence to make any alteration . The controversy concerning Sir Isaac's philosophy is a piece of ...
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... thanks for the instructive index , that you have taken the pains to add , and hope it will not be long before we shall see the beginning of that noble book . I shall be in some pain till I hear that you have received my old manu- script ...
... thanks for the instructive index , that you have taken the pains to add , and hope it will not be long before we shall see the beginning of that noble book . I shall be in some pain till I hear that you have received my old manu- script ...
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... thank her for my shirts . They fit , in my opinion , very well ; though Biddy says they are too little in the arms . You may expect a letter from me every day in the week till I come home ; for Mrs. Biscoe has desired it , and has given ...
... thank her for my shirts . They fit , in my opinion , very well ; though Biddy says they are too little in the arms . You may expect a letter from me every day in the week till I come home ; for Mrs. Biscoe has desired it , and has given ...
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... thanks you for bringing the letter from your old acquaintance , and the former has made me an elegant present . I am now very much taken up with study ; am to speak Antony's speech in Shakespeare's Julius Cæsar ( which play I will read ...
... thanks you for bringing the letter from your old acquaintance , and the former has made me an elegant present . I am now very much taken up with study ; am to speak Antony's speech in Shakespeare's Julius Cæsar ( which play I will read ...
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