 | Asiatic Society (Kolkata, India) - 1927 - 902 pagina’s
...of the Supreme Court at Fort William, called together a few of his European friends and pleaded for the institution of a Society for enquiring into the..." History — civil and natural, the Antiquities, Art, Sciences and Literature of Asia." The result was the founding of the Asiatick Society, — and... | |
 | James De Alwis - 1852 - 316 pagina’s
...their occupation of India. The same eminent scholar to whom we have already referred, in his Essay " On the. history, Civil and Natural, the antiquities, arts, sciences and literature of the borderers, mountaineers, and islanders of Asia," states the result of his valuable investigations... | |
 | E. S. Shaffer - 1980 - 376 pagina’s
...Parreaux, William Beckford, p. 332. 56 Jones, 'A Discourse on the Institution of a Society, for Inquiring into the History, Civil and Natural, the Antiquities, Arts, Sciences, and Literature of Asia', Works, 1, 1. 57 Ibid., p. 3. 58 Ibid., p. 4. 59 Works, 1, 93-4. 60 Quoted in Raymond Schwab, La Renaissance... | |
 | William Jones - 1993 - 474 pagina’s
...to you, OP SIR WILLIAM JONES, A DISCOURSE ON THE INSTITUTION OF A SOCIETY, FOR INQUIRING INTO T.fE HISTORY, CIVIL AND NATURAL, THE ANTIQUITIES, ARTS, SCIENCES, AND LITERATURE, OF ASIA. BY THE PRESIDENT. GENTLEMEN, Vv HEN I was at fea laft Auguft, on my voyage to this country, which I... | |
 | Sarah C. Humphreys - 1997 - 448 pagina’s
...administration; and (16) Maharatta constitution (Kejariwal, Asiatic Society, 29). 36. William Jones, "A Discourse on the Institution of a Society for Enquiring...Antiquities, Arts, Sciences, and Literature of Asia," Asiatic Researches, vol. 1, ix— x, as quoted in Kejariwal, Asiatic Society 27— 28. 37. Kejariwal,... | |
 | Saree Makdisi - 1998 - 272 pagina’s
...of British India (University of ( lhicago Press, 1992), p. 28. 2o Ibid., p. 31. 21 Sir WilliamJones, "A Discourse on the Institution of a Society, for...Civil and Natural, the Antiquities, Arts, Sciences, Literature, of Asia, By the President." (1784). In The Works of Sir William Jones in Ihirteen Volumes... | |
 | Thomas M. Curley - 1998 - 728 pagina’s
...all-encompassing aims of the organization: "A Discourse on the Institution of a Society, for Inquiring into the History, Civil and Natural, the Antiquities, Arts, Sciences and Literature of ASIA." The focus of inquiry would be no less than everything — "Man and Nature" — to be understood through... | |
 | Bruce Lincoln - 1999 - 315 pagina’s
...but also Arabic. 23. Sir William Jones, "A Discourse on the Institution of a Society for Inquiring into the History, Civil and Natural, the Antiquities, Arts, Sciences, and Literature, of Asia," Works of Sir William Jones, 3:1-2. 24. On Jones, the standard biography is Garland Cannon, The Life... | |
 | Jan van Campen - 2000 - 420 pagina’s
...dynasties, Londen/Amsterdam, 1997. W. Jones, 'A discourse on the institution of a society for inquiring into the history, civil and natural, the antiquities, arts, sciences, and literature, of Asia', Asiatick researches; or transactions qfthe Society instituted in Bengal Jor inquiring into the history... | |
 | Suzanne Wilson Barnett, Van Jay Symons - 2000 - 188 pagina’s
...It was the first of many such societies, with the purpose, according to Sir William, of "inquiring into the history, civil and natural, the antiquities, arts, sciences, and literature, of Asia." 4 This could serve as a description in a college catalog for what we now call Asian studies. These... | |
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A Discourse on the Institution of a Society for enquiring into the History Civil and Natural, the Antiquities, Arts, Sciences, and Literature of Asia, delivered at Calcutta, Jan. 
