Memoirs of the Life, Writings and Correspondence of Sir William Jones, Volume 1J. Hatchard, 1806 - 531 pages |
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... Reviczki , afterwards the Imperial minister at Warsaw , and Ambassador at the Court of England , with the title of Count . This learned and accomplished nobleman was deeply captivated with the charms of Oriental literature ; and the ...
... Reviczki , afterwards the Imperial minister at Warsaw , and Ambassador at the Court of England , with the title of Count . This learned and accomplished nobleman was deeply captivated with the charms of Oriental literature ; and the ...
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... Reviczki , we may conclude that it contained an ela- borate panegyric on Eastern poetry , expressed with all the rapture which novelty inspires , and in terms degrading to the Muses of Greece and Rome . C. RE- C. REVICZKI to W. JONES ...
... Reviczki , we may conclude that it contained an ela- borate panegyric on Eastern poetry , expressed with all the rapture which novelty inspires , and in terms degrading to the Muses of Greece and Rome . C. RE- C. REVICZKI to W. JONES ...
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John Shore Baron Teignmouth. C. REVICZKI to W. JONES , Esquire . * London , Feb. 19 , 1768 . SIR , I am highly gratified by your recollection of me , as well as by the repeated compliments which you pay me , in your letters to Madame de ...
John Shore Baron Teignmouth. C. REVICZKI to W. JONES , Esquire . * London , Feb. 19 , 1768 . SIR , I am highly gratified by your recollection of me , as well as by the repeated compliments which you pay me , in your letters to Madame de ...
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... REVICZKI to Mr. JONES . London , Feb. 24 , 1768 . I received your learned and obliging letter on the same day on which I wrote to you ; and I read it with the greatest pleasure , though I could have wished that it had been more just to ...
... REVICZKI to Mr. JONES . London , Feb. 24 , 1768 . I received your learned and obliging letter on the same day on which I wrote to you ; and I read it with the greatest pleasure , though I could have wished that it had been more just to ...
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... ; it is not restricted to thirteen couplets , as Reviczki writes , but to seventeen , and generally contains about seven or eight . him equally irreproachable in his morals and compositions . Most him SIR WILLIAM JONES . 47.
... ; it is not restricted to thirteen couplets , as Reviczki writes , but to seventeen , and generally contains about seven or eight . him equally irreproachable in his morals and compositions . Most him SIR WILLIAM JONES . 47.
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