Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Correspondence, of Sir William Jones |
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... less complete , although I have spared no diligence in endeavouring to collect all that could be obtained . I was in hopes that the recollection of his contemporaries at Oxford , where he occasionally resided until he left England ...
... less complete , although I have spared no diligence in endeavouring to collect all that could be obtained . I was in hopes that the recollection of his contemporaries at Oxford , where he occasionally resided until he left England ...
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... less grate- ful to remark that the attachment of his professed friends did not expire with his life ; after a proper interval , they visited his widow , and vied in their offers of service to her ; amongst others to whom she was ...
... less grate- ful to remark that the attachment of his professed friends did not expire with his life ; after a proper interval , they visited his widow , and vied in their offers of service to her ; amongst others to whom she was ...
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... less willing to have it done . The new edition of the Principia is what we wait for with great impatience , though at the same time I believe the book will be far more valuable than if it had been done in a hurry , since I find the ...
... less willing to have it done . The new edition of the Principia is what we wait for with great impatience , though at the same time I believe the book will be far more valuable than if it had been done in a hurry , since I find the ...
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... less agreeable to me to hear , that your own book is in such forwardness . You are much in the right of it to print your lectures and other papers , in a book by itself : it is better than to have them lie up and down among other things ...
... less agreeable to me to hear , that your own book is in such forwardness . You are much in the right of it to print your lectures and other papers , in a book by itself : it is better than to have them lie up and down among other things ...
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... less faults , than I ever yet saw in any human " being ; and that the goodness of his head , admirable as it was , was " exceeded by that of his heart . I have never ceased to admire him " from the moment I first saw him ; and my esteem ...
... less faults , than I ever yet saw in any human " being ; and that the goodness of his head , admirable as it was , was " exceeded by that of his heart . I have never ceased to admire him " from the moment I first saw him ; and my esteem ...
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Page 402 - ... 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 466 - ... no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists...
Page 402 - 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 623 - 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 466 - 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 452 - 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 84 - 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 116 - 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 231 - 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 490 - ... 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...