The Works of Sir William Jones: With the Life of the Author, Band 3J. Stockdale and J. Walker, 1807 |
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... supposed to have been called Sindon , from the name of the river near which it was wrought in the highest perfection : the people of Colchis were also famed for this manufacture , and the Egyptians yet more , as we learn from feveral ...
... supposed to have been called Sindon , from the name of the river near which it was wrought in the highest perfection : the people of Colchis were also famed for this manufacture , and the Egyptians yet more , as we learn from feveral ...
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... supposed to have had an early connection with the Hindus ; but , fince we find fome Afiatick nations totally diffi- milar to them in all or most of those particulars , and fince the difference will strike you more forcibly by an ...
... supposed to have had an early connection with the Hindus ; but , fince we find fome Afiatick nations totally diffi- milar to them in all or most of those particulars , and fince the difference will strike you more forcibly by an ...
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... supposed to be of an indefinite , but very remote , age . It may naturally be ask- ed : In what characters were they written ? Who decyphered them ? Why were not the ori- ginal letters preserved in the book , where the verfes are cited ...
... supposed to be of an indefinite , but very remote , age . It may naturally be ask- ed : In what characters were they written ? Who decyphered them ? Why were not the ori- ginal letters preserved in the book , where the verfes are cited ...
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... supposed houses of the people called Thamùd are alfo ftill to be seen in excavations of rocks ; and , in the time of TABRIZI the Grammarian , a caftle was extant in Yemen , which bore the name of ALADBAT , an old bard and warriour , who ...
... supposed houses of the people called Thamùd are alfo ftill to be seen in excavations of rocks ; and , in the time of TABRIZI the Grammarian , a caftle was extant in Yemen , which bore the name of ALADBAT , an old bard and warriour , who ...
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... supposed to have been deftroyed by the Chinefe , in whofe dominions he had fought refuge , the whole tale is too mo- dern to throw any light on the queftions before us concerning the origin of nations and the in- habitants 132 THE SIXTH ...
... supposed to have been deftroyed by the Chinefe , in whofe dominions he had fought refuge , the whole tale is too mo- dern to throw any light on the queftions before us concerning the origin of nations and the in- habitants 132 THE SIXTH ...
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Seite 34 - 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.
Seite 124 - Think not that they were adorers of fire ; for that element was only an exalted object, on the lustre of which they fixed their eyes ; they humbled themselves a whole week before God ; and if thy understanding be ever so little exerted, thou must acknowledge thy dependence on the Being supremely pure.
Seite 227 - The fundamental tenet of the Vedanti school consisted, not in denying the existence of matter, that is, of solidity, impenetrability, and extended figure, (to deny which would be lunacy) but in correcting the popular notion of it, and in contending, that it has no essence independent of mental perception, that existence and perceptibility are convertible terms...
Seite 323 - In seven days from the present time, O thou tamer of enemies, the three worlds will be plunged in an ocean of death ; but, in the midst of the destroying waves, a large vessel sent by me for thy use shall stand before thee. Then...
Seite xix - I here omit remarking, what may probably have attracted your observation as well as mine, 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...
Seite 33 - ... names both for things and for actions; as it has happened in every country, that I can recollect, where the conquerors have not preserved their own tongue unmixed...
Seite 2 - I consoled myself with a hope, founded on opinions which it might have the appearance of flattery to mention, that, if in any country or community, such...
Seite iv - Italian, he fpoke and wrote with the greateft fluency and precifion ; and the German and Portuguefe were familiar to him. At an early period of life, his application to oriental literature commenced ; he...
Seite 374 - Varanes, mean only the powers of nature, and principally those of the Sun, expressed in a variety of ways, and by a multitude of fanciful names.
Seite 235 - ... perceived in heavenly or in terrestrial bodies: it is a disposition to be attracted which taught hard steel to rush from its place and rivet itself on the magnet : it is the same disposition which impels the light straw to attach itself firmly on amber: it is this quality which gives every substance in nature a tendency toward another, and an inclination forcibly directed to a determinate point.