Memoirs of the Life, Writings and Correspondence of Sir William Jones, Volume 1J. Hatchard, 1806 - 531 pages |
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Page 106
... discourse , to which Mr. Jones humourously alludes in his letter to Reviczki , was a letter in French , addressed to Mon- sieur Anquetil du Perron , and printed in 1771. The Frenchman had published , in three quarto volumes , an account ...
... discourse , to which Mr. Jones humourously alludes in his letter to Reviczki , was a letter in French , addressed to Mon- sieur Anquetil du Perron , and printed in 1771. The Frenchman had published , in three quarto volumes , an account ...
Page 107
... discourse , where he says , that he made me a present of a fine Sanskirrit , ( or , as he calls it , Sanskrotan ) alphabet , and that he promised Dr. Barton and Mr. Swinton , to send them 4 alphabets alphabets of the several Asiatic ...
... discourse , where he says , that he made me a present of a fine Sanskirrit , ( or , as he calls it , Sanskrotan ) alphabet , and that he promised Dr. Barton and Mr. Swinton , to send them 4 alphabets alphabets of the several Asiatic ...
Page 109
... discourse addressed to the Asiatic Society at Calcutta , in 1789 , Sir William Jones speaks of him , as " having had the merit of undertaking a voyage to India in his earliest " youth , with no other view than to recover the writings of ...
... discourse addressed to the Asiatic Society at Calcutta , in 1789 , Sir William Jones speaks of him , as " having had the merit of undertaking a voyage to India in his earliest " youth , with no other view than to recover the writings of ...
Page 111
... discourse ; of which , part has been lately quoted with applause by Dr. Parr * . The kindness of a contemporary student has communicated an anecdote in proof of his particular aversion to the logic of the schools , that , in an oration ...
... discourse ; of which , part has been lately quoted with applause by Dr. Parr * . The kindness of a contemporary student has communicated an anecdote in proof of his particular aversion to the logic of the schools , that , in an oration ...
Page 120
... discourse which I pronounced here , On extending the limits of Oriental literature . It was done too much in haste to be as perfect as it ought to have been , and as I could have made it with more leisure . The office which I hold here ...
... discourse which I pronounced here , On extending the limits of Oriental literature . It was done too much in haste to be as perfect as it ought to have been , and as I could have made it with more leisure . The office which I hold here ...
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