The Works of Sir William Jones
With the Life of the Author by Lord Teignmouth
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Perspectives from the Royal Asiatic Society; Volume 3;
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Product details:
- Edition number and title Volume 3
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 28 March 2013
- ISBN 9781108055703
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages466 pages
- Size 216x140x26 mm
- Weight 590 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 21 b/w illus. 0
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Short description:
The complete thirteen-volume works, with memoir, of the orientalist and poet Sir William Jones (1746-94), first published in 1807.
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A renowned Enlightenment polymath, Sir William Jones (1746-94) was a lawyer, translator and poet who wrote authoritatively on politics, comparative linguistics and oriental literature. Known initially for his Persian translations and political radicalism, Jones became further celebrated for his study and translation of ancient Sanskrit texts following his appointment to the supreme court in Calcutta in 1783. He spent the next eleven years introducing Europe to the mysticism and rationality of Hinduism through works such as his nine 'Hymns' to Hindu deities and his translation of the Sanskrit classic Sacontal&&&225;, influencing Romantic writers from William Blake to August Wilhelm Schlegel. Volume 3 of his thirteen-volume works, published in 1807, contains Jones' 'Anniversary Discourses' (1784-94) addressed to the Asiatick Society as its president - including 'On the Hindus' (1786), a seminal work of comparative linguistics. It also contains his landmark essay of cultural comparison, 'On the Gods of Greece, Italy, and India' (1784).
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1. A discourse delivered at a meeting of the Asiatick Society; 2. A discourse on the institution of a society, for inquiring into the history, antiquities, arts, sciences, and literature, of Asia; 3. The second anniversary discourse; 4. The third anniversary discourse; 5. The fourth anniversary discourse; 6. The fifth anniversary discourse; 7. The sixth anniversary discourse; 8. The seventh anniversary discourse; 9. The eighth anniversary discourse; 10. The ninth anniversary discourse; 11. The tenth anniversary discourse; 12. The eleventh anniversary discourse; 13. A dissertation on the orthography of Asiatick words in Roman letters; 14. On the gods of Greece, Italy, and India.
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