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" 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*. "
Works - Page 246
by Sir William Jones - 1807
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Memoirs of the Life of David Garrick, Esq: Interspersed with ..., Volume 1

Thomas Davies - Actors - 1781 - 556 pages
...communicate his knowledge of it to others. He left a fragment called an Eflay on the Art of A£ling, which, it is much to be lamented, that he did not live to complete. What remains is worth an actor's confideration. CHAP. DAVID GAR RICK, Efq. 1*7" CHA P. XIV....
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Collections Towards a Description of the Country of Devon

Sir William Pole - Devon (England) - 1791 - 596 pages
...of Devon/hire, fo often quoted by Mr. Rifdon and Mr. Prince, in their Publications on the Subject ; and it is much to be lamented that he did not live to perfect the extenfive Work which he had meditated. It may not, perhaps, be doing ftrict Juftice to...
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The New annual register, or General repository of history ..., Volume 25

1805 - 948 pages
...displayed his profound Oriental learning in illustrating topics of great importance in the history of mankind ; and it is much to be lamented that he did not live to revise and improve them in England, with the advantages of accumulated knowledge and undisturbed leisure....
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The Asiatic Annual Register, Or, A View of the History of ..., Volume 5

Lawrence Dundas Campbell, E. Samuel - Books - 1804 - 820 pages
...displayed his profound Oriental learning, in illustrating topics of great importance in the history of mankind} and it is much to be lamented that he did not live to revise and improve them in England, with the advantages of accumulated knowledge, and undisturbed leisure....
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The British Critic, and Quarterly Theological Review, Volume 24

1804 - 752 pages
...Oriental learning in ilhifirating topics of grcatimportancein the hiftor)- of mankind; and it is'mUcrf to be lamented, that he did not live to revife and improve ihero in Eng, lajKi, with the advantages of accumulated knowledge and undiilurbcd kifure. «TA mere...
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The Works of Sir William Jones, Volume 2

William Jones - 1807 - 534 pages
...difcufled t-he fubjects which he profefled to explain, with a perfpicuity which delights and inftructs, and in a ftyle which never ceafes to pleafe, where...revife and improve them in England, with the advantages of accumulated knowledge and uhdifturbed Jeifure*. y * Of these discourses, the subjects of the two...
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Censura Literaria: Containing Titles, Abstracts, and Opinions ..., Volumes 3-4

Sir Egerton Brydges - Bibliographical literature - 1807 - 912 pages
...displayed his profound oriental learning in illustrating topics of great importance in the history of mankind; and it is much to be lamented that he did not live to revise and improve i>'em in England, wiih the advantages of accumulated knowledge and undisturbed leisure...
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The Literary panorama, Volume 5, Issue 1809

1809 - 672 pages
...displayed his profound Oriental learning in illustrating topics of great importance in the history of mankind; and it is much to be lamented, that he did not live to revive and improve them in England, with the advantages of accumulated knowledge and undisturbed leiture....
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The Literary Panorama, Volume 5

English literature - 1809 - 688 pages
...displayed his profound Oriental learning in illustrating topics of great importance in the history of mankind ; and it is much to be lamented, that he did not live to revive and improve them in Kngland, with the advantages of accumulated knowledge and imdisturbe<l leisure....
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The General Biographical Dictionary, Volume 5

Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1812 - 552 pages
...state, and displays an extensive fund of learning, connected with the investigation of the civil law. It is much to be lamented that he did not live to complete his plan : but by his will he expressly forbade any part of his MSS. to be printed, as not...
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