Volume 2

The works of Sir William Jones / with the life of the author by Lord Teignmouth.

  • William Jones
Date:
1807
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Credit: The works of Sir William Jones / with the life of the author by Lord Teignmouth. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    _esnnot éxatnine minute bloffoms,. efpecially thofe of grafles. We are far advanced in the fecond volume of our Tranfaétions. | : Sir Wilham Jones to Fobu Wilmot, Eig. sikh Sept. 20, 1789. Every fentencein your letter gave me great pleafure, and particularly the pleaf- ing and juft account of your truly venerable _ ' father. Lady Jones, after the firft pang for the lofs of hers, refigned herfelf with true piety to the will of God. She is very weak, and always ill during the heats. I have been, ever fince my feafoning, as they call it, per- fectly well, notwithftanding inceflant bufinefs feven hours in a day, for four or five months in a year, and unremitted application, during the vacations, to a vaft and interefting] ftudy, | a-complete knowledge of India, which 1 can only attain in the country itfelf, and I do not mean to ftay in the country longer than the Jatt year of the eighteenth century. I rejoice that the Be is well, but take no intereft in /