Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . 7), whose Essa3son Sanskrit Literature, pub-lished in a collected form in the year of his death, are recognised Koyal Irish Academy, vol. xxi ; W. G. Vaux in Annual Kiport of KoyalSociety of Literature, 1867. ENGLISH SCnOLARSniP SINCE 673 as Tiiasterpieces of insight and research. He had previouslyproduced elaborate translations of the two standard Sanskrittreatises on the law of inheritance (1810), a
Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . 7), whose Essa3son Sanskrit Literature, pub-lished in a collected form in the year of his death, are recognised Koyal Irish Academy, vol. xxi ; W. G. Vaux in Annual Kiport of KoyalSociety of Literature, 1867. ENGLISH SCnOLARSniP SINCE 673 as Tiiasterpieces of insight and research. He had previouslyproduced elaborate translations of the two standard Sanskrittreatises on the law of inheritance (1810), and also of certainmathematical and philosophical works (1S17). Even more wasdone for the actual spread of the study by a man of less genius,. Sni WILLIAM JONES, BY SIR JOSIUV REYNOLDS. (Ci/ permission ofllie Rijht lloii. Karl fijvntcr.) Horace Hayman Wilson ((iO), the first Professor ofSanskrit at Oxford (1833), whose dictionary (181!), 18:52) madethe further study of the language possible in Europe. B. discovered the remains of Northern Ikiddhist literaturein Nepal; and J. Muir, the founder of the Sanskrit Chair mEdinburgh, was to the close of his life an enthusiastic student otthe Veda: while R. C Childers was the first to publish, in dictionary of Pali, the sacred language of the liuddhists. Thediscovery of the affinity of Sanskrit with other languages led to295 674 TEE SUCCESSION OF THE DEMOCRAOY. Anglo-Saxon andEnglish. [1865 the foundation of the (omparative Philology of the Indo-European languages, which has become a recognised branch ofstudy in the universities of England. The study of Anglo-Saxon received a now impulse in 1772liy the publication of Lye and Mannings dictionary; 1S23 i
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