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... India , is chiefly supplied from my own recollection , assisted by information collected from his writings and correspondence . Of the events of his life , between 1778 , his twenty second year , and the date of his embarkation for India ...
... India , is chiefly supplied from my own recollection , assisted by information collected from his writings and correspondence . Of the events of his life , between 1778 , his twenty second year , and the date of his embarkation for India ...
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... India , ( Works , vol . i . page 445. ) he thus expresses himself on the subject : " It has been made a question whether " the poems of Hafez must be taken in a literal or figurative sense ; but " the question does not admit of a ...
... India , ( Works , vol . i . page 445. ) he thus expresses himself on the subject : " It has been made a question whether " the poems of Hafez must be taken in a literal or figurative sense ; but " the question does not admit of a ...
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... India , but had since relinquished that object for a commission in the army . I find also from his correspondence , that he had begun a dictionary of the Persian language , in which the prin- cipal words were illustrated from the most ...
... India , but had since relinquished that object for a commission in the army . I find also from his correspondence , that he had begun a dictionary of the Persian language , in which the prin- cipal words were illustrated from the most ...
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... India . I cannot conceive what is become of the book which I sent to you ; but I will take the first opportunity of transmitting a fairer and more correct copy , together with the little Treatise on the Literature of Asia , and my ...
... India . I cannot conceive what is become of the book which I sent to you ; but I will take the first opportunity of transmitting a fairer and more correct copy , together with the little Treatise on the Literature of Asia , and my ...
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... India , the life of Zoroaster , and some supposed works of that philosopher . To this publication he prefixed a discourse , in which he treated the university of Oxford , and some of its learned members , and friends of Mr. * Appendix ...
... India , the life of Zoroaster , and some supposed works of that philosopher . To this publication he prefixed a discourse , in which he treated the university of Oxford , and some of its learned members , and friends of Mr. * Appendix ...
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