Works, Volume 2J. Stockdale, 1807 |
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... Ancient World . 3. Proofs and Illustrations of Scripture . 4. Traditions concerning the Deluge , & c . 5. Modern Politics and Geography of Hindustan . 6. Best Mode of governing Bengal . The following fhort letter to Lord Afh- burton ...
... Ancient World . 3. Proofs and Illustrations of Scripture . 4. Traditions concerning the Deluge , & c . 5. Modern Politics and Geography of Hindustan . 6. Best Mode of governing Bengal . The following fhort letter to Lord Afh- burton ...
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... ancient tongue would be of the greatest utility , in enabling him to discharge with confidence and fatisfaction to himfelf , the duties of a judge ; and he foon dif- covered , what fubfequent experience fully confirmed , that no ...
... ancient tongue would be of the greatest utility , in enabling him to discharge with confidence and fatisfaction to himfelf , the duties of a judge ; and he foon dif- covered , what fubfequent experience fully confirmed , that no ...
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... ancient university of India , and had only to regret , that his knowledge of their language was infufficient to enable him to converse with them without the affiftance of an in- terpreter . After a short residence , which his fense of ...
... ancient university of India , and had only to regret , that his knowledge of their language was infufficient to enable him to converse with them without the affiftance of an in- terpreter . After a short residence , which his fense of ...
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... ancient feats of Hindu religion and literature , and notices the impediments oppofed by illness to the profecution of his propofed enquiries , and the neceffity of leaving them , as Æneas is feigned to have left the fhades , when his ...
... ancient feats of Hindu religion and literature , and notices the impediments oppofed by illness to the profecution of his propofed enquiries , and the neceffity of leaving them , as Æneas is feigned to have left the fhades , when his ...
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... ancient rulers in Afia , particularly Ci- cero , the governor of Cilicia , you unite the character of the statesman and the scholar . Next for the news , which has on the whole given me pleasure , and in particular , what both pleases ...
... ancient rulers in Afia , particularly Ci- cero , the governor of Cilicia , you unite the character of the statesman and the scholar . Next for the news , which has on the whole given me pleasure , and in particular , what both pleases ...
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Page 248 - The Sanskrit 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 152 - 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...
Page 152 - ... 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 61 - 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 249 - 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 283 - PERSIA. 19. The History of Persia, from Authorities in Sanscrit, Arabic, Greek, Turkish, Persian, Ancient and Modern. 20. The Five Poems of Nizami, translated in Prose. A Dictionary of pure Persian — Jehangiri.
Page 279 - But what appears to me," adds his lordship, " more particularly to have enabled him to employ his talents so much to his own and the public advantage, was the regular allotment of his time...
Page 246 - 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*.
Page 257 - Hebrew, is certain; and a cursory examination of maoy old inscriptions on pillars and in caves, leaves little doubt, that the Nagari and Ethiopian letters had a similar form. It is supposed, that the Abyssinians of the Arabian stock having no letters, borrowed those of the black Pagans, whom the Greeks called Troglodytes ; and upon the whole, it seems probable that the Ethiops of Meroe were the same people with the first Egyptians, and consequently, as it might easily be shewn, with the original...
Page 205 - GOD, and the harsh admonitions even to kings, are truly noble ; and the many panegyricks on the Gayatri, the Mother, as it is called, of the Veda, prove the author to have adored (not the visible material sun, but) that divine and incomparably greater light, to use the words of the most venerable text in the Indian scripture, which illumines all, delights all, from which all...