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The Works of Sir William Jones

1799

Of the ability and confcicntiuus integrity with which he difeharged the funftions of a Magiftrate and the duties of a Judge of the Supreme Court of Judicature in this fettlement the public voice and public re. [...] The doetrines of the Academy the' Lycews or the Portico were not more familiar to him than the tenets of the Vedas the myflicifin of the Sufis or the relikion of the ancient Pernatu ; and whillt with a kindred genius he perufed with rapture the heroic lyric or moral compotitions; of the molt renowned poets of Greece Rome and Afia he could turn with equal delight and knoledge to the s [...] Pure to find myfelf in the midfl of fo noble an amphitheatre almoft encircled by the vat regions of iffia which has ever been efleemed the nurfe of sciences the inventrefs of delightful and Willi) ails the fettle of glorious a5Iions fertile in the prialtiertions of human genius abounding in natural wonders and intiniteIrdiverfiled in the forms of religion and goVeinnaent in the lawsi manne [...] confummate warriors whore domain has extended at leaft from the banks of the Ilifiii.rto the mouths of the Cadet: on..your left are the beautiful and celebrated provinces of Iran Of Pojia the wirocafilred and perhaps unmeafurable deferts of Aral ka; and the once fiouriiliing kingdom of Yemen with the pleafant ifles. [...] the bow of (.:v D and the chariot of the Sun.: on another we hear the cymbals of RHEA the longs of the and the palloral talcs of AI'oLLo Numius.
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Pages
564
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.144343
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Cover
i-iii unknown view
Frontmatter
i-xv unknown view
A Discourse On the Institution of a Society for Inquiring into The History Civil and Natural the Antiquities Arts Sciences and Litterature of Asia
1-8 The President view
The Second Anniversary Discourse Delivered 24 February 1785
9-18 The President view
The Third Anniversary Discourse Delivered 2 February 1786
19-34 The President view
The Fourth Anniversary Discourse Delivered 15 February 1787
35-50 The President view
The Fifth Anniversary Discourse Delivered 21 February 1788
51-72 The President view
The Sixth Discourse on the Delivered 19 February 1789
73-94 unknown view
The Seventh Anniversary Discourse Delivered 25 February 1790
95-112 unknown view
The Eighth Anniversary Discourse Delivered 24 February 1791
113-128 The President view
Discourse the Ninth on the Origin and Families of Nations Delivered 23 February 1792
129-142 The President view
The Tenth Anniversaray Discourse Delivered 28 February 1793
143-158 The President view
Jrse the Eleventh on the Philosophy of the Asiaticks Delivered 20 February 1794
159-i The President view
A Dessertation on the Orthography of Asiatick Words in Roman Letters
175-228 The President view
On the Gods Greece Italy and India Written in 1784 and Since Revised
229-280 The President view
On the Chronology of the Hindus. Written in January 1788
281-314 The President view
A Supplement to the Essay on Indian Chronology
315-331 The President view
Note to Mr. Vansittart’s Paper on Afghans being Descended from the Jews
332-332 The President view
On the Antiquity of the Indian Zodiack
333-348 The President view
On the Literature of the Hindus
349-364 The President view
On the Second Classical Book of the Chinese
365-374 The President view
The Lunar Year of the Hindus
375-412 The President view
On the Musical Modes of the Hindus : Written in 1784 and Since Much Enlarged
413-444 The President view
On the Mystical Poetry of the Persians and Hindus
445-462 The President view
Gitagovinda : or the Songs of Jayadeva
463-484 The President view
Remarks of the Island of Hinzuan or Johanna
485-514 The President view
A Conversation with Abram an Abyssinian Concerning the City of Gwender and the Sourse of the Nile
515-518 The President view
On the Course of the Nile
519-520 The President view
On The Indian Game of Chess
521-536 The President view

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