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... Brahmans is not only to teach the youths of their " sect , but to relieve those who are poor . I made many presents to poor scholars and others in distress , and " for this purpose I anticipated any income : I was then obliged to borrow ...
... Brahmans is not only to teach the youths of their " sect , but to relieve those who are poor . I made many presents to poor scholars and others in distress , and " for this purpose I anticipated any income : I was then obliged to borrow ...
Page 304
... Brahmans of this ancient university , I left Calcutta before I could read your work , but shall peruse it with eagerness on my return to the capital . You touched an important string , when you mentioned the subject of Indian music , of ...
... Brahmans of this ancient university , I left Calcutta before I could read your work , but shall peruse it with eagerness on my return to the capital . You touched an important string , when you mentioned the subject of Indian music , of ...
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... Brahmans . I am charmed with your plan ; and if the directors have not yet resolved to print the work at their expense , I can perhaps suggest a mode of procuring very powerful influence with them . The king has much at heart his new ...
... Brahmans . I am charmed with your plan ; and if the directors have not yet resolved to print the work at their expense , I can perhaps suggest a mode of procuring very powerful influence with them . The king has much at heart his new ...
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... Brahmans , to whom I have related the discovery in Sanscrit , are highly delighted with it . Public business presses on me so heavily at this season , that I must postpone the pleasure of writing fully to you , till I can retire in the ...
... Brahmans , to whom I have related the discovery in Sanscrit , are highly delighted with it . Public business presses on me so heavily at this season , that I must postpone the pleasure of writing fully to you , till I can retire in the ...
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... I hope , be sent next season to Europe . As my principal object is the jurisprudence , I have not yet ex- amined the philosophy of the Brahmans ; but I have X X SIR WILLIAM JONES . 829 py: my own health is firm, and, ...
... I hope , be sent next season to Europe . As my principal object is the jurisprudence , I have not yet ex- amined the philosophy of the Brahmans ; but I have X X SIR WILLIAM JONES . 829 py: my own health is firm, and, ...
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