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... application , who was anxious to assist his exertions , and rewarded their success with unlimited applause , his ardour for learning had been raised to a degree of enthusiasm : at the university , he expected to find a Sumner or Askew ...
... application , who was anxious to assist his exertions , and rewarded their success with unlimited applause , his ardour for learning had been raised to a degree of enthusiasm : at the university , he expected to find a Sumner or Askew ...
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... himself the translation from the mouth of the Syrian . He afterwards corrected the grammatical inaccuracies of the version , by the help of Erpenius and Golius . C In the course of his application to this ancient lan- SIR WILLIAM JONES .
... himself the translation from the mouth of the Syrian . He afterwards corrected the grammatical inaccuracies of the version , by the help of Erpenius and Golius . C In the course of his application to this ancient lan- SIR WILLIAM JONES .
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John Shore Baron Teignmouth. In the course of his application to this ancient lan- guage he discovered , what he never before suspected , a near connection between the modern Persic and Arabic ; and he immediately determined to acquire ...
John Shore Baron Teignmouth. In the course of his application to this ancient lan- guage he discovered , what he never before suspected , a near connection between the modern Persic and Arabic ; and he immediately determined to acquire ...
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... application . It was at this period , in the twenty - first year of his age , that he began his Com- mentaries on Asiatic Poetry , in imitation of Dr. Lowth's Prelections at Oxford , on the sacred poetry of the Hebrews . The summer of ...
... application . It was at this period , in the twenty - first year of his age , that he began his Com- mentaries on Asiatic Poetry , in imitation of Dr. Lowth's Prelections at Oxford , on the sacred poetry of the Hebrews . The summer of ...
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... application was directed with his usual perseverance , he nearly completed his Commentaries , transcribed an Arabic manuscript on Egypt and the Nile , borrowed from Dr. Russel , and copied the keys of the Chinese language , which he ...
... application was directed with his usual perseverance , he nearly completed his Commentaries , transcribed an Arabic manuscript on Egypt and the Nile , borrowed from Dr. Russel , and copied the keys of the Chinese language , which he ...
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