And as Jones himself put it in a later essay On the Poetry of the Eastern Nations, "[I]t has been my endeavour for several years to inculcate this tr… - William Jones

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And as Jones himself put it in a later essay On the Poetry of the Eastern Nations, "[I]t has been my endeavour for several years to inculcate this truth, that, if the principal writings of the Asiaticks, which are reposited in our public libraries, were printed with the usual advantage of notes and illustrations, and if the languages of Eastern nations were studied in our great seminaries of learning, where every other branch of useful knowledge is taught to perfection, a new and ample field would be opened for speculation; we should have a more extensive insight into the history of the human mind; we should be furnished with a new set of images and similitudes; and a number of excellent compositions would be brought to light, which future scholars might explain, and future poets might imitate."