Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Correspondence, of Sir William Jones |
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Page 12
... excellent preface , which I wish much to get published in some of the foreign journals ; and since a better account of this book cannot be given , I suppose it will not be difficult to get it done . Now , this great task being done , I ...
... excellent preface , which I wish much to get published in some of the foreign journals ; and since a better account of this book cannot be given , I suppose it will not be difficult to get it done . Now , this great task being done , I ...
Page 21
... excellent instructor , it is sufficient to say , that he employed them in reading and imitating the best an- cient authors . Nor did he confine himself merely to the compositions of Greece and Rome ; he learned the Arabic characters ...
... excellent instructor , it is sufficient to say , that he employed them in reading and imitating the best an- cient authors . Nor did he confine himself merely to the compositions of Greece and Rome ; he learned the Arabic characters ...
Page 27
... excellent instructor . They separated soon after , with mutual regret ; and in the following term he fixed him- self at Oxford . The name of Jones was long remembered at Harrow , with the respect due to his superior talents and un ...
... excellent instructor . They separated soon after , with mutual regret ; and in the following term he fixed him- self at Oxford . The name of Jones was long remembered at Harrow , with the respect due to his superior talents and un ...
Page 38
... excellent library , in which he found intellectual treasures of the highest value , in his estimation : scarcely a single book escaped his inspection ; and some of the most rare he perused with indefatigable application . It was at this ...
... excellent library , in which he found intellectual treasures of the highest value , in his estimation : scarcely a single book escaped his inspection ; and some of the most rare he perused with indefatigable application . It was at this ...
Page 53
... excellent , others very inferior , and some very tame , whilst Jami preserves an equality throughout . I have not translated the ode of Hafez , " If that fair maid , & c . " * into Latin verse , as the sense is so unconnected ; but a ...
... excellent , others very inferior , and some very tame , whilst Jami preserves an equality throughout . I have not translated the ode of Hafez , " If that fair maid , & c . " * into Latin verse , as the sense is so unconnected ; but a ...
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