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Page 42
He was always a strenuous advocate for the practice of bodily exercises , as no
less useful to invigorate his frame , than as a necessary qualification for any
active exertions to which he might eventually be called . At home , his attention
was ...
He was always a strenuous advocate for the practice of bodily exercises , as no
less useful to invigorate his frame , than as a necessary qualification for any
active exertions to which he might eventually be called . At home , his attention
was ...
Page 83
If difficulties occur , and we are asked , “ how they can be solved ? " we may
safely answer , “ Wę do not know ; " yet we may truly be , and justly be called
Christians . To these Propositions , the following note is subjoined : — “ What
must be the ...
If difficulties occur , and we are asked , “ how they can be solved ? " we may
safely answer , “ Wę do not know ; " yet we may truly be , and justly be called
Christians . To these Propositions , the following note is subjoined : — “ What
must be the ...
Page 84
It is a small village situated on a pleasant hill , about three miles from Oxford ,
called Forest Hill , because it formerly lay contiguous to a forest , which has since
been cut down . The poet chose this place of retirement after his first marriage ,
and ...
It is a small village situated on a pleasant hill , about three miles from Oxford ,
called Forest Hill , because it formerly lay contiguous to a forest , which has since
been cut down . The poet chose this place of retirement after his first marriage ,
and ...
Page 99
... and I am now spending the summer ( if this rainy season may be so called ) on
the borders of Germany . I certainly can without any risk send your manuscripts
from this place , and I advise you by all means to publish them . * Appendix , No .
... and I am now spending the summer ( if this rainy season may be so called ) on
the borders of Germany . I certainly can without any risk send your manuscripts
from this place , and I advise you by all means to publish them . * Appendix , No .
Page 122
I do not see why the study of the law is called dry and unpleasant ; and I very
much suspect that it seems so to those only , who would think any study
unpleasant , which required a great application of the mind , and exertion of the
memory .
I do not see why the study of the law is called dry and unpleasant ; and I very
much suspect that it seems so to those only , who would think any study
unpleasant , which required a great application of the mind , and exertion of the
memory .
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Page 400 - ... of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world: all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power: both angels and men, and creatures of what condition soever, though each in different sort and manner, yet all with uniform consent, admiring her as the mother of their peace and joy.
Page 464 - ... no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists...
Page 400 - Of Law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God ; her voice the harmony of the world. All things in heaven and earth do her homage ; the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power.
Page 621 - Da be' rami scendea, (Dolce ne la memoria) Una pioggia di fior sovra '1 suo grembo; Et ella si sedea Umile in tanta gloria, Coverta già de l'amoroso nembo. Qual fior cadea sul lembo, Qual su le treccie bionde, Ch'oro forbito e perle Eran quel dì a vederle ; Qual si posava in terra, e qual su l'onde ; Qual con un vago errore Girando parea dir: 'Qui regna Amore.
Page 464 - The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either...
Page 450 - I have carefully and regularly perused these Holy Scriptures, and am of opinion, that the volume, independently of its divine origin, contains more sublimity, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains of eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever language they may have been written.
Page 82 - Where the great Sun begins his state Robed in flames and amber light, The clouds in thousand liveries dight ; While the ploughman, near at hand, ' Whistles o'er the furrowed land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale.
Page 114 - My friends, companions, relations, all attacked me with urgent solicitations to banish poetry and Oriental literature for a time, and apply myself to oratory and the study of the law ; in other words, to become a barrister, and pursue the track of ambition. Their advice in truth was conformable to my own inclinations ; for the only road to the highest stations in this country is that of the law ; and I need not add, how ambitious and laborious I am.
Page 229 - I pass with haste by the coast of Africa, " whence my mind turns with indignation at the " abominable traffic in the human species, from " which a part of our countrymen dare to derive " their most inauspicious wealth.
Page 488 - ... delight ; but I never could learn by what right, nor conceive with what feelings a naturalist can occasion the misery of an innocent bird, and leave its young, perhaps, to perish in a cold nest, because it has gay plumage, and has never been accurately delineated ; or deprive even a butterfly of its natural enjoyments, because it has the misfortune to be rare or beautiful...
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| Title | Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Correspondence, of Sir William Jones |
| Authors | John Shore Baron Teignmouth, Sir William Jones |
| Publisher | John Hatchard, 1807 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 17 Jul 2007 |
| Length | 636 pages |
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