Quote of the day
The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).
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