Memoirs of the Life, Writings and Correspondence, of Sir William Jones, Volume 2John Hatchard, ... ., 1806 - India |
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... Italy , and India , which he afterwards revised , and presented to the society . The design of this essay was to point out a resemblance , too strong to have been accidental , between the popular wor- ship of the old Greeks and Italians ...
... Italy , and India , which he afterwards revised , and presented to the society . The design of this essay was to point out a resemblance , too strong to have been accidental , between the popular wor- ship of the old Greeks and Italians ...
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... Italian father , named Orazio , who had lived thirty years in that country and Napal , where he died . On my return , I purpose , with the permission of the so- ciety I pur- 101 without disarranging your measures, since ...
... Italian father , named Orazio , who had lived thirty years in that country and Napal , where he died . On my return , I purpose , with the permission of the so- ciety I pur- 101 without disarranging your measures, since ...
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... Italy , and Rome , written in 1784 , but revised and printed in 1786 , in which the following passage occurs : " Disquisitions " concerning the manners and conduct of 66 our species , in early times , or indeed " at any time , are ...
... Italy , and Rome , written in 1784 , but revised and printed in 1786 , in which the following passage occurs : " Disquisitions " concerning the manners and conduct of 66 our species , in early times , or indeed " at any time , are ...
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... Italy , long before they migrated to their several settlements , and consequently before the birth of Moses ; but he was equally per- suaded , that the truth of the proposition could in no degree affect the veracity and sanctity ...
... Italy , long before they migrated to their several settlements , and consequently before the birth of Moses ; but he was equally per- suaded , that the truth of the proposition could in no degree affect the veracity and sanctity ...
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... Italian , Spanish , Portuguese , and German , he was tho- roughly conversant , and had perused the most admired writers in those languages . I might extend the list , by specifying other dialects which he understood , but which he had ...
... Italian , Spanish , Portuguese , and German , he was tho- roughly conversant , and had perused the most admired writers in those languages . I might extend the list , by specifying other dialects which he understood , but which he had ...
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Page 315 - The Sanscrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists...
Page 203 - ... of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world: all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power: both angels and men, and creatures of what condition soever, though each in different sort and manner, yet all with uniform consent, admiring her as the mother of their peace and joy.
Page 82 - On parent knees, a naked new-born child Weeping thou sat'st while all around thee smiled ; So live, that sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou mayst smile, while all around thee weep.
Page 288 - Scriptures, contain, independently of a divine origin, more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains both of poetry and eloquence, than could be collected, within the same compass, from all other books that were ever composed in any age or in any idiom.
Page 316 - Lyceum; nor is it possible to read the Vedanta, or the many fine compositions in illustration of it, without believing, that Pythagoras and Plato derived their sublime theories from the same fountain with the sages of India.
Page 288 - I have carefully and regularly perused these Holy Scriptures, and am of opinion, that the volume, independently of its divine origin, contains more sublimity, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains of eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever language they may have been written.
Page 352 - I omit remarking the candour and complacency with which he gave his attention to all persons, of whatever quality, talents, or education : he justly concluded that curious or important information might be gained even from the illiterate ; and, wherever it was to be obtained, he sought and seized it.
Page 289 - The two parts of which the Scriptures consist, are connected by a chain of compositions, which bear no resemblance, in form or style, to any that can be produced from the stores of Grecian, Indian, Persian, or even Arabian learning. The antiquity of those compositions no man doubts; and the unstrained application of them to events long subsequent to their publication, is a solid ground of belief that they were genuine predictions, and consequently inspired.
Page 306 - He was lying on his bed in a posture of meditation, and the only symptom of remaining life was a small degree of motion in the heart, which after a few seconds ceased, and he expired without a pang or groan.
Page 364 - Here was deposited the mortal part of a man who feared God but not Death. and maintained independence but sought not riches ; who thought none below him but the base and unjust, none above him but the wise and virtuous...