 | Vedeha (Thera) - 1852 - 560 pages
...their occupation of India. The same eminent scholar to whom we have already referred, in his Essay " On the history, Civil and Natural, the antiquities, arts, sciences and literature of the borderers, mountaineers, and islanders of Asia," states the result of his valuable investigations... | |
 | Sir James Emerson Tennent - 1859 - 732 pages
...fauna of the Indian continent. 2 include Lanca or the equinoctial point of the Indian astronomers." — Discourse on the Institution of a Society for enquiring into the History, Ifc, of the Borderers, Mountaineers, and Islanders of Asia. — Works, vol. ip 120. The Portuguese,... | |
 | Henry Percy Smith - 1883 - 542 pages
...Calcutta Society formed under Warren Hastings, at Sir W. Jones's desire, for the purpose of "inquiring into the history, civil and natural ; the antiquities, arts, sciences, and literature of Asia." Asmego. [Port.] Young ass; simpleton. Asltia. [Gr.] (Mcd.) Not in its proper sense of want of food,... | |
 | Asiatic Society of Bengal - 1885 - 772 pages
...and the proceedings were opened by Sir William Jones, who delivered a learned and very suggestive " Discourse on the Institution of a Society for enquiring into the History, civil and natural, tlie Antiquities, Arts, Sciences, and Literature of Asia." The address was enthusiastically received,... | |
 | 1888 - 402 pages
...members of the Council of India to become patrons of it. It was established for the purpose of inquiring into "the History, Civil and Natural, the Antiquities, Arts, Sciences, and Literature of Asia". It was but a feeble institution at first; Sir William speaks of it in one of his letters as " an expiring... | |
 | Pickering & Chatto - 1895 - 268 pages
...permission of its Author, The Very Rev. JH Newman, DD 1857. 12no, FIBST EDITION, boards, 2s 6d Ш INDIA. — A Discourse on the Institution of a Society for enquiring into the History, Cvil and Natural, The Antiquities, Arts, Sciences, and Literature of Asia. Delivered a. Calcutta, Jan.... | |
 | Robert Watson Frazer - 1898 - 502 pages
...inaugural discourse at a meeting of thirty gentlemen, called in Calcutta for the purpose of instituting a society for enquiring into the history, civil and...antiquities, arts, sciences, and literature of Asia — a society established under the name of the " Asiatic Society." Warren Hastings was invited to... | |
 | Pickering & Chatto - 1899 - 396 pages
...Present Mode of Arresting and Imprisoning the Bodier of Debtors. (1729.) 8vo, sewn 4s 1742 INDIA. — A discourse on the Institution of a Society for enquiring...and Literature of Asia, delivered at Calcutta. Jan. 15, 1/84. A Charge to the Grand Jury at Calcutta, Dec. 4, 1783. And a Hymn to Canidco, translated from... | |
 | Harvard Law School. Library - 1909 - 1232 pages
...CommonBanck, Angleterre, [1620-40]. (12) +463+ (23) p. Port. Fol. London, 1675. Jones, Sir William, 1746-1794. Discourse on the institution of a Society for enquiring...Grand Jury at Calcutta, Dec. 4th, 1783, and a Hymn to Camd^.translated from the Hindu into Persian and from Persian into English. (2) +33 p. 4to. London,... | |
 | Bibliothèque nationale (France). Département des imprimés - 1923 - 660 pages
...other literary gentlemen now resident in India. — London, J. Walks, 1787. In -8°, 1 96 p. [Yk. 2575 A Discourse on the institution of a Society for enquiring...sciences and literature of Asia, delivered at Calcutta, January i5th, irKA. a charge to the grand jury at Calcutta, December 41*, 1788, and a hymn to Camdes... | |
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A Discourse on the Institution of a Society for enquiring into the History Civil and Natural, the Antiquities, Arts, Sciences, and Literature of Asia, delivered at Calcutta, Jan. 
