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... give the sense of them in a plain familiar style . But I must warn the reader , that he is to expect nothing more in these translations ; and that those who are qualified to peruse the original letters of Sir William Jones , will find ...
... give the sense of them in a plain familiar style . But I must warn the reader , that he is to expect nothing more in these translations ; and that those who are qualified to peruse the original letters of Sir William Jones , will find ...
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... give from the authority of his son , may be acceptable to the lovers of science . Mr. William Jones was born in the year 1680 , in Anglesey ; his parents were yeomen , or little farmers , on that island ; and he there received the best ...
... give from the authority of his son , may be acceptable to the lovers of science . Mr. William Jones was born in the year 1680 , in Anglesey ; his parents were yeomen , or little farmers , on that island ; and he there received the best ...
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... give you any consolatory advice that lay in my power , and make it my business to convince you what a real share I take in your chagrin . And yet , to reason philosophically , I cannot help thinking any grief upon a person's death very ...
... give you any consolatory advice that lay in my power , and make it my business to convince you what a real share I take in your chagrin . And yet , to reason philosophically , I cannot help thinking any grief upon a person's death very ...
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... gives due force and reward to their merits , and defends them from the suggestions of calumny . But to return to the ... give my duty to my Mamma , and thank her for my shirts . They fit , in my opinion , very well ; though Biddy says ...
... gives due force and reward to their merits , and defends them from the suggestions of calumny . But to return to the ... give my duty to my Mamma , and thank her for my shirts . They fit , in my opinion , very well ; though Biddy says ...
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... give me comfort , since , after Parnell's departure , he is almost the only company I keep . As for news ; the only article I know is , that Mrs. Parr is dead and buried . Mr. and Mrs. Sumner are well : the latter thanks you for ...
... give me comfort , since , after Parnell's departure , he is almost the only company I keep . As for news ; the only article I know is , that Mrs. Parr is dead and buried . Mr. and Mrs. Sumner are well : the latter thanks you for ...
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Page 402 - ... 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: 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 466 - ... no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists...
Page 402 - 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 623 - Da be' rami scendea, (Dolce ne la memoria) Una pioggia di fior sovra '1 suo grembo; Et ella si sedea Umile in tanta gloria, Coverta già de l'amoroso nembo. Qual fior cadea sul lembo, Qual su le treccie bionde, Ch'oro forbito e perle Eran quel dì a vederle ; Qual si posava in terra, e qual su l'onde ; Qual con un vago errore Girando parea dir: 'Qui regna Amore.
Page 466 - 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...
Page 452 - I have carefully and regularly perused these Holy Scriptures, and am of opinion, that the volume, independently of its divine origin, contains more sublimity, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains of eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever language they may have been written.
Page 84 - Where the great Sun begins his state Robed in flames and amber light, The clouds in thousand liveries dight ; While the ploughman, near at hand, ' Whistles o'er the furrowed land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale.
Page 116 - My friends, companions, relations, all attacked me with urgent solicitations to banish poetry and Oriental literature for a time, and apply myself to oratory and the study of the law ; in other words, to become a barrister, and pursue the track of ambition. Their advice in truth was conformable to my own inclinations ; for the only road to the highest stations in this country is that of the law ; and I need not add, how ambitious and laborious I am.
Page 231 - I pass with haste by the coast of Africa, " whence my mind turns with indignation at the " abominable traffic in the human species, from " which a part of our countrymen dare to derive " their most inauspicious wealth.
Page 490 - ... delight ; but I never could learn by what right, nor conceive with what feelings a naturalist can occasion the misery of an innocent bird, and leave its young, perhaps, to perish in a cold nest, because it has gay plumage, and has never been accurately delineated ; or deprive even a butterfly of its natural enjoyments, because it has the misfortune to be rare or beautiful...