 ... are seldom willing to allow any excellence beyond the limits of our own attainments: like the savages, who thought that the sun rose and set for them alone, and could not imagine that the waves, which surrounded their island, left coral and pearls...  A Grammar of the Persian Language - Seite iivon Sir William Jones - 1823 - 230 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Sir William Jones - 1771 - 204 Seiten
...becaufe they do not underftand it:. we all love to excufe,, or to conceal our ignorance, and are feldom willing to allow any excellence beyond the limits of our own attainments; like the favages who thought that the fun rofe and fet for them alone, and could not imagine that the waves,... | |
 | Samuel Lee - 1825 - 108 Seiten
...remarked, in the preface to his grammar, that " we all love to excuse or to conceal our ignorance, and are seldom willing to allow any excellence beyond...island, left coral and pearls upon any other shore." His editor cannot think, or at least he will surely never maintain, that the sun of learning illumines... | |
 | Francis Lister Hawks - 1838 - 542 Seiten
...their language because they do not understand it. We all love to excuse or to conceal our ignorance, and are seldom willing to allow any excellence beyond...attainments; like the savages, who thought that the sun * Preface, p. 5. t Persian Grammar, Preface, p. 1 and seq. NO. IV.—vOL. II. 39 rose and set for them... | |
 | 1839 - 618 Seiten
...true is the reflection of Sir William Jones, that " we all love to excuse or to conceal our ignorance, and are seldom willing to allow any excellence beyond...island, left coral and pearls upon any other shore." f It is true, indeed, that a considerable time has elapsed since the period just mentioned ; and a... | |
 | Leela Gandhi - 1998 - 222 Seiten
...their language, because they do not understand it: we all love to excuse, or to conceal, our ignorance, and are seldom willing to allow any excellence beyond the limits of our own achievements: like the savages, who thought the sun rose and set for them alone, and could not imagine... | |
 | John Zephaniah Holwell - 2000 - 434 Seiten
...such Eurocentric philistinism with true savagery: We all love to excuse, or lo conceal, our ignorance, and are seldom willing to allow any excellence beyond...our own attainments: like the savages, who thought the sun rose and set for them alone, and could not imagine that the waves, whieh surrounded their island,... | |
 | 1839 - 608 Seiten
...true is the reflection of Sir William Jones, that " we all love to excuse or to conceal our ignorance, and are seldom willing to allow any excellence beyond...island, left coral and pearls upon any other shore. "f It is true, indeed, that a considerable time has elapsed since the period just mentioned : and a... | |
 | 1838 - 534 Seiten
...their language because they do not understand it. We all love to excuse or to conceal our ignorance, and are seldom willing to allow any excellence beyond...attainments ; like the savages, who thought that the sun * Preface, p. 5. t Persian Grammar, Preface, p. 1 and seq. rose and set for them alone, and could not... | |
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