William Jones

Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx

• attestation: William Jones, of ILangotten (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter II: The Fairies' Revenge)

  "William Jones, of ILangotten."

• attestation: William Jones : unless I am mistaken it has not hitherto been published; so I give the Welsh together with a free translation of it: — (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter II: The Fairies' Revenge)

  "William Jones: unless I am mistaken it has not hitherto been published; so I give the Welsh together with a free translation of it: —"

• attestation: William Jones goes on to say, 'always give mortals the means of good living: sometimes they made no little fun of them (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter II: The Fairies' Revenge)

  "William Jones goes on to say, 'always give mortals the means of good living: sometimes they made no little fun of them."

• comparison: It began with Sir William Jones' discovery of the kinship of Sanskrit with Greek and Latin, and for a long time it took the lead of the more closely related sciences: this proved partly beneficial and (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter XII: Race in Folklore and Myth)

  "It began with Sir William Jones' discovery of the kinship of Sanskrit with Greek and Latin, and for a long time it took the lead of the more closely related sciences: this proved partly beneficial and partly the reverse."