 | John D. Clifford, Constantine Samuel Rafinesque - 2000 - 220 pages
...lengthy articles in the Asiatick Researches — where Clifford probably read them — on such subjects as "History, Civil and Natural," "The Antiquities, Arts, Sciences, and Literature of Asia," "The Gods of Greece, Italy, and India," "Institutes of Hindu Law; or, the Ordinances of Manu," and... | |
 | Peter James Marshall, Alaine Low - 2001 - 668 pages
...intellectual life. William Jones founded the Asiatick Society of Bengal in t784, to encourage enquiry into 'the History, Civil, and Natural, the Antiquities, Arts, Sciences, and Literature of Asia'.46 It quickly became the most important learned society in the British colonies. In his third... | |
 | Sudipta Sen - 2002 - 252 pages
...vol. 3, p. 31. 62. William Jones, “A Discourse on the Institution of a Society, for the Inquiring into the History, Civil and Natural, the Antiquities, Arts, Sciences, and Literature of Asia,” in The Works of William Jones, vol. 3, p. 6. 63. John Millar, The Origin of the Distinction of Ranks,... | |
 | Sudipta Sen - 2002 - 252 pages
...1977, vol. 3, p. 31. 62. William Jones, "A Discourse on the Institution of a Society, for the Inquiring into the History, Civil and Natural, the Antiquities, Arts, Sciences, and Literature of Asia," in The Works of William Jones, vol. 3, p. 6. 63. John Millar, The Origin of the Distinction of Ranks,... | |
 | Mia Carter, Barbara Harlow - 2003 - 836 pages
...(1822; reprint, New York: Colonial Press, A Discourse on the Institution of a Society for Inquiring into the History, Civil and Natural, the Antiquities, Arts, Sciences, and Literature of Asia WILLIAM JONES [William Jones (1746-1794) was knighted in 1783 and a year later sailed for Calcutta.... | |
 | Thomas Keymer, Jon Mee - 2004 - 332 pages
...(trans.), The Bhagvad-Geeta, or Dialogues of Kreeshna and Arjoon (1785), pp. ni$. 5. Sir William Jones, 'A Discourse on the Institution of a Society, for...Civil and Natural, the Antiquities, Arts, Sciences, Literature, of Asia', in The Works of Sir William Jones, 6 vols. (1799), i: i. 6. Raymond Schwab, The... | |
 | David M. Waterhouse - 2004 - 328 pages
...Mission Press, 1935-1936. Jones, Sir William, 'A Discourse on the Institution of a Society, for Inquiry Into the History, Civil and Natural, the Antiquities, Arts, Sciences, and Literature of Asia', Asiat. Res., 1, 1788, 9-16. , A Grammar of the Persian Language 1771, 8th edn, London: W. Nicol, 1823.... | |
 | Hansjörg Bay, Kai Merten - 2006 - 674 pages
...years to inculcate this truth, that, if the principal writings of the Asiaticks, Sir William Jones: A Discourse on the Institution of a Society, for Enquiring...Civil and Natural, the Antiquities, Arts, Sciences, Literature, ofAsia, in: The Works of Sir William Jones, 6 Bd., Bd. 1, London 1799, S. 2. which are... | |
 | Alastair Hamilton, Maurits H. Van Den Boogert, Bart Westerweel - 2005 - 315 pages
...your botanical rambles or in reading' to the Asiatic Society of Bengal he had recently established 'for enquiring into the history, civil and natural,...antiquities, arts, sciences, and literature of Asia'. 97 In a letter of 28 September 1786 Jones congratulated Russell on finishing two of his works. The... | |
 | Hermione De Almeida, George H. Gilpin - 2005 - 364 pages
...scholarship of the Asiatick Society, which had been founded with the open-ended intellectual mission of 'enquiring into the History, civil and natural, the...Antiquities, Arts, Sciences, and Literature of Asia';"' the Indian scholars assumed primary roles in teaching and instructing Jones and his fellow European... | |
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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. 
