Quote of the day
The first duty towards children is to make them happy. If you have not made them so, you have wronged them. No other good they may get can make up for that.
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