William Jones
William Jones
Philologist and expert on ancient India who founded the Asiatic Society of Bengal, known for proposing a link among Indo-European languages.
ProfessionTeacher
Date of Birth28 September 1746
certainly consider understand
I completely understand the sensitivity and we'll certainly consider this when we meet.
answer call case computer dozen frustrated generally numbers talk
I often get no answer at all. I call their 1-800 numbers and generally you get a computer and talk to no one. I've had that not once but probably a dozen times. When you do talk to somebody, you get frustrated because you can't really find out if the case is proceeding. They say they are working on it, but they don't give any details.
time law heaven
Seven hours to law, to soothing slumber seven, Ten to the world allot, and all to heaven.
country law highest
The only road to the highest stations in this country is that of the law.
different interpretation experiments
An experiment in nature, like a text in the Bible, is capable of different interpretations, according to the preconceptions of the interpreter.
ignorance animal dumb
Cruelty to dumb animals is one of the distinguishing vices of low and base minds. Wherever it is found, it is a certain mark of ignorance and meanness; a mark which all the external advantages of wealth, splendour, and nobility, cannot obliterate. It is consistent neither with learning nor true civility.
christian men doctrine
I am no Hindu, but I hold the doctrine of the Hindus concerning a future state (rebirth) to be incomparably more rational, more pious, and more likely to deter men from vice than the horrid opinions inculcated by Christians on punishments without end.
latin perfect greek
The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity is of wonderful structure, more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin and more exquisitely refined than either.
hands opinion should
My opinion is, that power should always be distrusted, in whatever hands it is placed.
interchange
In the whisper of the leaves appears an interchange of love.
book important may
I have carefully and regularly perused the Holy Scriptures, and am of opinion that the volume contains more sublimity, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains of eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever language they may have been written.
simple ease pearls
Go boldly forth, my simple lay,Whose accents flow with artless ease,Like orient pearls at random strung.
body helping public-service
Of all the things that it is possible to donate, to donate your own body is infinitely more worthwhile.
literature infinity attention
Wherever we direct our attention to Hindu literature the notion of infinity presents itself.