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" Of these cursory observations on the Hindus, which it would require volumes to expand and illustrate, this is the result: that they had an immemorial affinity with the old Persians, Ethiopians, and Egyptians, the Phenicians, Greeks, and Tuscans, the Scythians... "
Discourses delivered before the Asiatic society: and miscellaneous papers on ... - Page 38
by Sir William Jones - 1824
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Asiatic Researches, Volume 1

Asiatick Society (Calcutta, India) - Asia - 1801 - 580 pages
...appears for believing that they were a co2 * lony lony from any one of thofe nations, or any of thofe nations from them, we may fairly conclude that they all proceeded from fome central country, to inveltigate which will be the objecl of my future Difcourfes ; and I have...
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The Works of Sir William Jones: With the Life of the Author, Volume 3

John Shore Baron Teignmouth - 1807 - 488 pages
...reafon appears for believing, that they were a colony from any one of thofe nations, or any of thofe nations from them, we may fairly conclude that they all proceeded from fome central country, to inveftigate which will be the object of my future Difcourfes ; and I have...
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Works, Volume 3

Sir William Jones - 1807 - 480 pages
...reafon appears for believing, that they were a colony from any one of thofe nations, or any of thofe nations from them, we may fairly conclude that they all proceeded from fome central country, to inveftigate which will be the objecl: of my future Difcourfes ; and I have...
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Illustrations to Oriental Memoirs, Volume 2

James Forbes - India - 1834 - 712 pages
...were a colony from any one of those nations, or any of those nations from them, we may fairly conclude they all proceeded from some central country, to investigate which will be my future object." It has been observed by careful investigators, that 166 FESTIVAL OF THE HOOLI. there...
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Oriental Memoirs: A Narrative of Seventeen Years ..., Part 68, Volume 2

James Forbes - India - 1834 - 578 pages
...were a colony from any one of those nations, or any of those nations from them, we may fairly conclude they all proceeded from some central country, to investigate which will be my future object." It has been observed by careful investigators, that there is a great resemblance...
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General Linguistics

Francis P. Dinneen - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1995 - 680 pages
...that they had an immemorial affinity with the old Persians, Ethiopians, and Egyptians, the Phcnicians, Greeks, and Tuscans, the Scythians or Goths, and Celts,...Discourses; and I have a sanguine hope, that your collection during the present year will bring to light many useful discoveries; although the departure...
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Sprachtheorien der Neuzeit, Volume 2

Peter Schmitter - Comparative linguistics - 1996 - 510 pages
...Greeks, and Tuscans, the Scythians or Goths, and Celts, the Chinese, Japanese, and Peruvians; whence, äs no reason appears for believing, that they were a...although the departure for Europe of a very ingenious member44, who first opened the inestimable mine of Sanskrit literature, will often deprive us of accurate...
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Representing India: Indian Culture and Imperial Control in ..., Volume 1

Michael J. Franklin - Deccan (India) - 2000 - 580 pages
...rcafon appears for believing that they were a colony lony from any one of thofe nations, or any of thofe nations from them, we may fairly conclude that they all proceeded from fome central country, to inveftigate which will be the object of my future Difcourfes ; and 1 have...
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A History of Indian Literature in English

Arvind Krishna Mehrotra - Education - 2003 - 440 pages
...mankind, from which it had centuries ago migrated to différent parts of the globe. The Hindus, he said, had an immemorial affinity with the old Persians,...investigate which will be the object of my future Discourses . . . The Utilitarian philosopher James Mill, perhaps remembering this and similar passages, was later...
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Keats and Hellenism: An Essay

Martin Aske - History - 2005 - 212 pages
...suggests, had an immemorial affinity with the old Persians, Ethiopians, and Egyptians, the Phenecians, Greeks, and Tuscans, the Scythians or Goths, and Celts,...conclude that they all proceeded from some central country.85 The elegant felicity with which Jones embraces different cultures is characteristic of the...
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