LONDON.PUBLISHED BY W.H.CARPENTER,

LOWER BROOK STREET, 1821.

DELIVERED BEFORE

The Asiatic Society:

AND

MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS,

ON

THE RELIGION, POETRY, LITERATURE, ETC. OF THE NATIONS OF INDIA.

BY

SIR WILLIAM JONES.

WITH AN

Essay on his Name, Talents, and Character.

BY THE RIGHT HON. LORD TEIGNMOUTH.

SELECTED AND EDITED

BY JAMES ELMES,

AUTHOR OF LECTURES ON ARCHITECTURE, ETC.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR CHARLES S. ARNOLD, TAVISTOCK STREET, COVENT GARDEN.

1824.

THE variety, value, and extent of the talents and character of Sir William Jones, are acknowledged wherever the English language is spoken or understood.

The immensity of his literary attainments, his fertile capacity, his great and unerring judgment, his zeal, his patriotism, and his

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