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Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
William Jones
Born: September 28, 1746
Died: April 27, 1794 (aged 47)
Bio: Sir William Jones was an Anglo-Welsh philologist, and a scholar of ancient India, particularly known for his proposition of the existence of a relationship among European and Indian languages, which would later be known as Indo-European languages.
Known for:
- The works of Sir William Jones
- A Grammar of the Persian Language (1771)
- Ojibwa Texts