Memoirs of the Life, Writings and Correspondence of Sir William Jones, Volume 1J. Hatchard, 1806 - 531 pages |
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Page 50
... pleasure or instruction ; it is indeed so admirable , that I must point out the only fault which I find in it , that of brevity , although you seem apprehensive of being thought tedious . I suspect that I am indebted to your partiality ...
... pleasure or instruction ; it is indeed so admirable , that I must point out the only fault which I find in it , that of brevity , although you seem apprehensive of being thought tedious . I suspect that I am indebted to your partiality ...
Page 51
... pleasure and profit from the journey . I do not mean to apply my censures on the servile imitations of Turkish authors to every species of imitation ; for in some instances the imitation , as in the case of Virgil with respect to Hesiod ...
... pleasure and profit from the journey . I do not mean to apply my censures on the servile imitations of Turkish authors to every species of imitation ; for in some instances the imitation , as in the case of Virgil with respect to Hesiod ...
Page 61
... pleasure , or rather devoured , But what necessity is there to say more , since it is possible that what I write , may never reach you ? Let me , again and again , intreat and beseech your remembrance of me wherever you go , and that ...
... pleasure , or rather devoured , But what necessity is there to say more , since it is possible that what I write , may never reach you ? Let me , again and again , intreat and beseech your remembrance of me wherever you go , and that ...
Page 62
... pleasure , the enthusiastic veneration expressed by Mr. Jones for the British constitution , and the ardour with which he pronounces himself its champion ; they will also remark that his attachment to it was indelible , and acquired ...
... pleasure , the enthusiastic veneration expressed by Mr. Jones for the British constitution , and the ardour with which he pronounces himself its champion ; they will also remark that his attachment to it was indelible , and acquired ...
Page 67
... pleasure his own relation of what he saw and felt on this occasion , in an animated letter which he wrote to Lady ... pleasures , Whilst the landscape round it measures : Russet lawns , and fallows grey , Where the nibbling flocks do ...
... pleasure his own relation of what he saw and felt on this occasion , in an animated letter which he wrote to Lady ... pleasures , Whilst the landscape round it measures : Russet lawns , and fallows grey , Where the nibbling flocks do ...
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