Memoirs of the Life, Writings and Correspondence of Sir William Jones, Volume 1J. Hatchard, 1806 - 531 pages |
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Page 47
... object in it is to justify his conduct as a poet , by representing * Amatory Poem ; it is not restricted to thirteen couplets , as Reviczki writes , but to seventeen , and generally contains about seven or eight . him equally ...
... object in it is to justify his conduct as a poet , by representing * Amatory Poem ; it is not restricted to thirteen couplets , as Reviczki writes , but to seventeen , and generally contains about seven or eight . him equally ...
Page 56
... object of veneration than of delight , ( for , excepting the Old Testament itself , and some rabbinical dreams about it , there is nothing in it worth perusal , ) I well remember , from the little of it which I have read , having ...
... object of veneration than of delight , ( for , excepting the Old Testament itself , and some rabbinical dreams about it , there is nothing in it worth perusal , ) I well remember , from the little of it which I have read , having ...
Page 60
... object , and one only , to preserve our beautiful constitution inviolate . Contrary to my intention , I find I have been prolix ; I will , therefore , turn to another subject . I read your last letter with an apprehension , that it ...
... object , and one only , to preserve our beautiful constitution inviolate . Contrary to my intention , I find I have been prolix ; I will , therefore , turn to another subject . I read your last letter with an apprehension , that it ...
Page 61
... object to this , copies of them shall be deposited with my treasures , and the originals restored to you as soon as possible . You bid me return the verses to you when I am tired with them : this is as much as to say keep them for ever ...
... object to this , copies of them shall be deposited with my treasures , and the originals restored to you as soon as possible . You bid me return the verses to you when I am tired with them : this is as much as to say keep them for ever ...
Page 63
... object for a commission in the army . I find also from his correspondence , that he had begun a Dic- tionary of the Persian Language , in which the principal words were illustrated from the most celebrated authors of the East : but he ...
... object for a commission in the army . I find also from his correspondence , that he had begun a Dic- tionary of the Persian Language , in which the principal words were illustrated from the most celebrated authors of the East : but he ...
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