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... Mr. Jones dis- covered a propensity to mathematical studies , and , having cultivated them with assiduity , he began his career in life , by teaching ma- thematics thematics on - board a man of war ; and SIR WILLIAM JONES . 3.
... Mr. Jones dis- covered a propensity to mathematical studies , and , having cultivated them with assiduity , he began his career in life , by teaching ma- thematics thematics on - board a man of war ; and SIR WILLIAM JONES . 3.
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... studies had not been interrupted . He was of course far behind his fellow- labourers of the same standing , who erroneously ascribed his insuf- ficiency to laziness or dulness , while the master who had raised him to a situation above ...
... studies had not been interrupted . He was of course far behind his fellow- labourers of the same standing , who erroneously ascribed his insuf- ficiency to laziness or dulness , while the master who had raised him to a situation above ...
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... studies beyond the prescribed limits , and , by solitary labour , having acquired a competent knowledge of the rules of prosody , he com- posed verses in imitation of Ovid ; a task , which had never been required from any of the ...
... studies beyond the prescribed limits , and , by solitary labour , having acquired a competent knowledge of the rules of prosody , he com- posed verses in imitation of Ovid ; a task , which had never been required from any of the ...
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... studies had latterly been pursued , left him no reason to regret the disadvantages under which he had at first laboured . His improve- ment in the knowledge of prosody was truly extraordinary ; he soon acquired a proficiency in all the ...
... studies had latterly been pursued , left him no reason to regret the disadvantages under which he had at first laboured . His improve- ment in the knowledge of prosody was truly extraordinary ; he soon acquired a proficiency in all the ...
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... studies . He invented a political play , in which Dr. William Bennet * , Bishop of Cloyne , and the celebrated Dr. Parr , were his principal associates . They divided the fields in the neigh- bourhood of Harrow , according to a map of ...
... studies . He invented a political play , in which Dr. William Bennet * , Bishop of Cloyne , and the celebrated Dr. Parr , were his principal associates . They divided the fields in the neigh- bourhood of Harrow , according to a map of ...
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Page 378 - 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, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists...
Page 67 - 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 furrow'd 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 325 - 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 365 - The Scriptures, contain, independently of a divine origin, more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains both of poetry and eloquence, than could be collected within the same compass from all other books that were ever composed in any age, or in any idiom.
Page 68 - Whilst the landscape round it measures, Russet lawns, and fallows gray, Where the nibbling flocks do stray, Mountains on whose barren breast The labouring clouds do often rest: Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks, and rivers wide. Towers and battlements it sees Bosom'd high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some beauty lies, The cynosure of neighbouring eyes.
Page 266 - On parent knees, a naked new-born child Weeping thou sat'st while all around thee smiled ; So live, that sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou mayst smile, while all around thee weep.
Page 21 - Thackeray, one of his masters, was wont to say of him, that he was a boy of so active a mind, that if he were left naked and friendless on Salisbury Plain, he would, nevertheless, find the road to fame and riches.
Page 187 - 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 306 - Musul" man subjects of Great Britain, that the private laws which " they severally hold sacred, and a violation of which they "would have thought the most grievous oppression, should "not be superseded by a new system, of which they could " have no knowledge, and which they must have considered as " imposed on them by a spirit of rigour and intolerance.
Page 288 - To this spot,' says his amiable and intelligent biographer, Lord Teignmouth, ' he returned every evening after sunset, and in the morning rose so early, as to reach his apartments in town, by walking, at the first appearance of dawn. The intervening period of each morning, until the opening of court, was regularly allotted and applied to distinct studies.