The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs... Mithridates Minor, Or, An Essay on Language - Pagina 104door Henry Welsford - 1848 - 431 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
| Thomas Maurice - 1800 - 434 pagina’s
...before, runs very naturally into Sapphics, Alcaics, and Iambics. Sir William repre'fents it as even more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquifitely refined than either, yet bearing to both fo. ftrong an affinity as to induce a conviction,... | |
| Thomas Maurice - 1800 - 492 pagina’s
...given in thefe words. " The Sanfcreet language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful ftru&ure ; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquifitely refined than either, yet bearing to each of them a ftronger affinity, both in the jroots... | |
| Asiatick Society (Calcutta, India) - 1801 - 580 pagina’s
...prevailed in it. . . ; i • The Sanscrit language, whatever be its antiquity^ is of a wonderful ftrufture; more perfect than the Greek* more copious than the Latin, and more exquifitely refined than cither ; yet bearing to both of them a ftronger affinity, affinity, both in... | |
| 1830 - 622 pagina’s
...expressed, in the strongest manner, by Sir William Jones. ' The ' Sanscrit language,' he observes, ' whatever be its antiquity, is ' of a wonderful structure;...the Greek, more ' copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than « either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both ia ' the... | |
| 1851 - 696 pagina’s
...wonderful structure of the Sanskrit. He said, at once, ' that the old sacred language of India was more perfect than ' the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely ' refined than either — yet bearing to both of them a stronger ' affinity, both in the... | |
| John Shore Baron Teignmouth - 1806 - 618 pagina’s
...no less deep than miscelit, by conquerors from oilier kingdoms in some very remote age. The Sanscrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful...than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either; yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots... | |
| Thomas Maurice - 1806 - 402 pagina’s
...letters of the alphabet, to the children of Ham in Chaldaea-t " The Sanscreet language, he observes, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure...than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to each of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots... | |
| Ossian - 1807 - 596 pagina’s
...invariably express every complex idea by circumlocution.*- Sir William Jones tells us, f that " the Sanscrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful...than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either; yet bearing to both a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs... | |
| Sir William Jones - 1807 - 554 pagina’s
...Sanscrit was introduced into it, by conquerors from other kingdoms in some very remote age. The Sati;c;-k language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful...than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either ; yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots... | |
| William Jones - 1807 - 534 pagina’s
...Sanscrit was introduced into it, by conquerors from other kingdoms in some very remote age. The Sanscrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful...than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either ; yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots... | |
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