 | James Hope Moulton - 1903 - 88 pagina’s
...in words which well deserve quoting : " The Sanskrit language, whatever may be its antiquity, is of wonderful structure ; more perfect than the Greek,...could examine all the three without believing them to have sprung from some common source which, perhaps, no longer exists. There is a similar reason, though... | |
 | Columbia University - 1908 - 686 pagina’s
...echoed on till to-day. "The Sanskrit language," said Sir William, "whatever be its antiquity, is of wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek,...accident; so strong that no philologer could examine all three without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which perhaps no longer exists.... | |
 | George Howells - 1913 - 654 pagina’s
...address to the Bengal Asiatic Society : The Sanskrit language, whatever may be its antiquity, is of wonderful structure ; more perfect than the Greek,...could examine all the three without believing them to have sprung from some common source which perhaps no longer exists. There is a similar reason, though... | |
 | Heinrich Schröder (i.e. Franz Johannes Heinrich) - 1925 - 1036 pagina’s
...in erster Linie die Kenntnis dieser Sprachen zu danken hat, William Jones, äußerte3: The Sanskrit language whatever may be its antiquity, is of a wonderful...so strong that no philologer could examine all the tbree without believing them to have sprung from some common source which, perhaps, no longer exists.... | |
 | Owen Barfield - 1926 - 238 pagina’s
...the European and Sanskrit languages. In 1786 Sir William Jones described that language as being of wonderful structure ; more perfect than the Greek,...— so strong that no philologer could examine all three without believing them to have sprung from some common source which, perhaps, no longer exists.... | |
 | Burton Feldman, Robert D. Richardson - 2000 - 596 pagina’s
...affinity, hoth in the roots of verhs and in the forms of grammar, than could have heen produced hy accident: so strong that no philologer could examine all the three without helieving them to have sprung from some common source which, perhaps, no longer exists. There is a... | |
 | Mark Durie, Malcolm Ross - 1996 - 330 pagina’s
...IndoEuropean as a protolanguage, made in 1786: The Sanskrit language, whatever may be its antiquity, is of wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek,...accident; so strong that no philologer could examine all three without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists.... | |
 | Robert Cox - 1997 - 368 pagina’s
...the Asiatic Society in Calcutta in 1786: The Sanskrit language, whatever may be its antiquity, is of wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek,...could examine all the three without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists. There is a similar reason, though... | |
 | Burton Feldman, Robert D. Richardson - 1972 - 598 pagina’s
...however, was his observation, in 1786, that The Sanskrit language, whatever may be its antiquity, is of wonderful structure: more perfect than the Greek,...could examine all the three without believing them to have sprung from some common 265 Sir William Jones [1746-1794] source which, perhaps, no longer exists.... | |
 | R. S. Perinbanayagam - 2000 - 324 pagina’s
...refined than either; yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in roots of verbs and in forms of grammar, than could have been produced by...could examine all the three without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps no longer exists, (quoted in Mallory 1989: 12)... | |
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Sanskrit language, whatever may 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... 
