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Account of a Person killed by Lightning in Tottenham - court Chapel , and its
Effectson the Building . Properties of Conic Sections , deduced by a
compendious method . He was also the editor of some mathematical works of Sir
Isaac Newton ...
Account of a Person killed by Lightning in Tottenham - court Chapel , and its
Effectson the Building . Properties of Conic Sections , deduced by a
compendious method . He was also the editor of some mathematical works of Sir
Isaac Newton ...
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Mr . Keil , as a person concerned , has undertaken to defend and answer some
things , as Dr . Friend and Dr . Mead do in their way , the rest . I would have sent
you the whole controversy , was I not sure that you know those only are most ...
Mr . Keil , as a person concerned , has undertaken to defend and answer some
things , as Dr . Friend and Dr . Mead do in their way , the rest . I would have sent
you the whole controversy , was I not sure that you know those only are most ...
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And yet to reason philosophically , I cannot help thinking any grief upon a person
' s death very superfluous , and inconsistent with sense ; for what is the cause of
our sorrow ? Is it because we hate the person deceased ? that were to imply ...
And yet to reason philosophically , I cannot help thinking any grief upon a person
' s death very superfluous , and inconsistent with sense ; for what is the cause of
our sorrow ? Is it because we hate the person deceased ? that were to imply ...
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... the eldest daughter of Dr . Shipley , then Dean of Winchester : but whatever
impressions her person and conversation made upon the heart of Mr . Jones , his
fixed ideas of an honourable independence , and a determined resolution never
to ...
... the eldest daughter of Dr . Shipley , then Dean of Winchester : but whatever
impressions her person and conversation made upon the heart of Mr . Jones , his
fixed ideas of an honourable independence , and a determined resolution never
to ...
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To the history of Nadir Shah , he added a Treatise on Oriental Poetry , in the
language of the translation : and I may venture to assert , that Mr . Jones was the
only person in England , at that time , capable of producing a work , which
required a ...
To the history of Nadir Shah , he added a Treatise on Oriental Poetry , in the
language of the translation : and I may venture to assert , that Mr . Jones was the
only person in England , at that time , capable of producing a work , which
required a ...
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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.
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| Title | Memoirs of the Life, Writings and Correspondence of Sir William Jones, Volume 1 |
| Author | John Shore Baron Teignmouth |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | J. Hatchard, 1806 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 31 May 2007 |
| Length | 531 pages |
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