| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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...of them a stronger ' affinity, both in the roots of the verbs and in the forms of ' grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident ; ' so... | |
| 1830 - 622 pagina’s
...Sir William Jones. ' The ' Sanscrit language,' he observes, ' whatever be its antiquity, is ' of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek,...bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both ia ' the roots of verbs, and in the forms of grammar, than could ' possibly have been produced by accident... | |
| Samuel Miller - 1805 - 432 pagina’s
...Sanscrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure ; more perfect than the Gnek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely...indeed, that no philologer could examine them all without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists. Thera... | |
| John Shore Baron Teignmouth - 1806 - 636 pagina’s
...oilier kingdoms in some very remote age. The Sanscrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure ; more perfect than, the Greek,...stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs, and in the form of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident ; so strong indeed, that no philologer... | |
| John Shore Baron Teignmouth - 1806 - 566 pagina’s
...stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs, and in the form of grammar, than could possibly have bf en produced by accident; so strong indeed, that no philologer...some common source, which perhaps no longer exists. There is a similar reason, though not quite so forcible, for supposing that both the Gothick and Ccltick,... | |
| Thomas Maurice - 1806 - 402 pagina’s
...children of Ham in Chaldaea-t " The Sanscreet language, he observes, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure ; more perfect than the Greek,...more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to each of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar, than could... | |
| William Jones - 1807 - 534 pagina’s
...from other kingdoms in some very remote age. The Sanscrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek,...stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs, and in the form of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident ; so strong indeed, that no philologer... | |
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