Author:William Jones (1746-1794)

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William Jones
(1746–1794)

William Jones

Works

• A Grammar of the Persian Language (1771)
  • Comparison, unknown edition
  • Shekesteh, unknown edition
• Poems, Consisting Chiefly of Translations from the Asiatick Languages (1777)
• The Third Anniversary Discourse, at the Asiatick Society of Bengal (2 February 1786)[1]
• The Works of Sir William Jones, with a Life of the Author, by Lord Teignmouth (1807)

Anthologized

• The Moallakát in Arabian Poetry for English Readers (1881)
• "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) IA
  • "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, 1885-1900, 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)
• "Jones, Sir William," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)