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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1851 Excerpt: ...reputation, and continued at the some time to give almost daily evidence of the progress he was making in polite literature; at one time translating Arabian poetry, at another writing odes on liberty, and then discussing, with the genius of a statesman, and the fervour of a patriot, some intricate question of foreign or domestic policy. At-length, on the accession of the Selburne administration, he obtained what hod long been the object of his ambition, the appointment of judge in the supreme court of judicature in Bengal. The honour of knighthood woo on this occasion conferred on him, and he soon after married Miss Shipley, daughter of the bishop of St. Asaph, with whom he embarked for India in April, 1783. One of his earliest acts in India was the establishment at Calcutta of an institution on the.plan of the Royal Society, oi which he was chosen the first president. Another was, to take vigorous measures for procuring a digest of the Hindoo and Mahometan laws. He then applied himself with ardour to the study of the Sanscrit, and his health soon suffering from the climate, he took a journey through the district of Benares, during which cessation of public duties he composed a "Treatise on the (JodB of Greece, Italy, and India." His translation of the celebrated "Ordinances of Menu," the famous Indian legislator, published early in 1794, had scarcely appeared, when he was seized with an inflammation of the liver, which terminated his truly valuable life on the 27th of April, in the 48th year of his age. As a judge he was indefutigable and impartial, his legal knowledge was profound, and he was an enlightened and liberal champion of constitutional monarchy. As a poet, essayist, and translator, there were few who excelled him; while as a ...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781235206542
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 892
  • Spine Width: 45 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1235206548
  • Publisher Date: 01 May 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 1560 gr

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