Author: William Jones
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Languages : en
Pages : 302

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Author: Sir William Jones (the Orientalist.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 310

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Author: Sir William Jones
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Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 356

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Author: Michael J. Franklin
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199532001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 409

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A major new critical biography of Sir William Jones (1746-94), the foremost Orientalist of his generation and one of the greatest intellectual navigators of all time, whose Sanskrit researches did more than any other writer to destroy Eurocentric prejudice, reshaping Western perceptions of India and the Orient.

Author: William Jones
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Author: William Jones
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Languages : la
Pages : 452

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Author: Garland Cannon
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 9780814715178
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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The first two essays describe Sir William Jones, a brilliant and engaged man of letters who became an authority on the languages, laws, and literatures of many of the major world civilizations. The next four essays describe Jones's contributions to linguistics, jurisprudence, history, natural science, and other fields. The last two essays address Jones's impact in German- speaking areas and his place in the history of British Orientalism. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author: Garland Cannon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521025263
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 432

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Sir William Jones (1746-1794) is best known for his famous Third Discourse of 1786 in which he proposed that Sanskrit's affinity to Greek and Latin could be explained by positing a common, earlier source, one known today as Indo-European. This brilliant thesis laid the groundwork for modern comparative linguistics. Jones' interests and achievements, however, ranged far beyond language. He studied and made contributions to anthropology, archaeology, astronomy, botany, history, law, literature, music, physiology, politics, and religion. He served as a Supreme Court justice in India and founded the Asiatic Society, which stimulated world-wide interest in India and the Orient. He was friends with many of the leading intellectuals of his day and corresponded with Benjamin Franklin in America and with Burke, Gibbon, Johnson, Percy and Reynolds in Britain. In his short life he mastered so many languages that he was regarded even in his own time as a phenomenon, and so he was. Garland Cannon, editor of the much acclaimed The Letters of Sir William Jones, has written a new and definitive biography of this fascinating man, who in his life and works teaches us that the path to understanding and appreciating the art and literature of a great culture very different from our own is through devoted study, a tolerant spirit, and an unquenchably curious mind.

Author: William Jones
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Languages : en
Pages : 452

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Author: Arthur Waley
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 0755116046
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 366

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In this unforgettable book, Waley brings together a number of articles, poems and translations. Included are pieces on the poet Ts'en Shen and the great Chinese prose writer, Han Yu, but the most compelling is 'The Secret History of the Mongols', with fantastic tales of epic battles; betrayal and love; tyrants and prisoners.