...Asiatic Society, as your Honourable Court is aware, was instituted in the year 1784, for the purpose of ' Enquiring into the History, Civil and Natural, the...Antiquities, Arts, Sciences, and Literature of Asia.' " That, since its institution, its exertions have been continually directed to the above objects ;...

...highest reputation in Arabia. Lond. 4to. 1783 A Discourse on the Institution of a Society for inquiring into the History, Civil and Natural, the Antiquities, Arts, Sciences, and Literature, and a Hymn to Comdeo. Lond. 4to. 1784 Institutes of Hindoo Law : or, the Ordinances of Minu, according...

...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...

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...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,...

...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,...

...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,...

...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...

...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....

...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...