Author:William Jones (1746-1794)

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William Jones (1746–1794)

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British philologist and student of ancient India, particularly known for his proposition of the existence of a relationship among Indo-European languages

William Jones

Works

• A Grammar of the Persian Language - (1771)
• Poems, Consisting Chiefly of Translations from the Asiatick Languages - (1777)

Anthologized

• "A Hymn to Narayena" in Poets of John Company (1921)

Translations

• The Speeches of Isaeus in Causes Concerning the Law of Succession at Athens - (1779)
  • "On the Estate of Dicaeogenes" as "In the Suit Against Dicæogenes and Leochares" in The World's Famous Orations.
• Sacontala; or, The Fatal Ring, by Kālidāsa, 3rd ed., reprint (1870)
• "A Persian Song" in Poets of John Company (1921)

Works about Jones

• "Jones, (Sir) William," in Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886, by Joseph Foster, London: Parker and Co. (1888–1892) in 4 vols.
• "Jones, William (1746-1794)," in Dictionary of National Biography, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Jones, Sir William," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)