 Oriental learning in illuftrating topics of great importance in the hiftory of mankind ; and it is much to be lamented, that he did not live to revife and improve them in England, with the advantages of accumulated knowledge and uhdifturbed Jeifure*.  Works - Page 246by Sir William Jones - 1807Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1812 - 540 pages
...state, and displays an extensive fund of learning, connected with the investigation of the civil law. It is much to be lamented that he did not live to complete his plan: but by his will he expressly forbade any part of his MSS. to be printed, as not... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 532 pages
...instructs, and in a stile which never ceases to please even where his arguments may not always convince : and it is much to be lamented, that he did not live to revise and improve them in England, with the advantages of accumulated knowledge and undisturbed leisure.... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1812 - 544 pages
...state, and displays an extensive fund of learning, connected with, the investigation of the civil law. It is much to be lamented that he did not live to complete his plan : but by his will he expressly forbade any part of his MSS. to be printed, as not... | |
 | William Henry Smyth - Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) - 1829 - 366 pages
...Polity of the Roman State, a work which displays deep research, and an extensive fund of learning. It is much to be lamented that he did not live to complete his plan ; but, by his will, he expressly forbade any part of his manuscripts to be printed.... | |
 | English literature - 1830 - 542 pages
...displayed his profound Oriental learning in illustrating topics of great importance in the history of mankind ; and it is much to be lamented that he did not live to revise and improve them in England, with the advantages of accumulated knowledge and undisturbed leisure."... | |
 | John Gorton - 1833 - 820 pages
...laborious collation of the Septuagmt manuscripts, in five folio volumes, after the manner of Kennicot, It is much to be lamented that he did not live to complete this valuable and erudite work, which has, however, since his decease, been carried on by... | |
 | Thomas Nadauld Brushfield - 1893 - 156 pages
...basis, the entire history of his native county, his extensive MS. Collections amply demonstrate,240 " and it is much to be lamented that he did not live to perfect the extensive work which he had meditated." (Intro, to Collections, vii.) A letter of his,... | |
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