| Thomas Maurice - Coins, Ancient - 1800 - 492 pages
...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) - Asia - 1801 - 580 pages
...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 pages
...This opinion was long ago expressed, in the strongest manner, by Sir William Jones. ' The ' Sanscrit language,' he observes, ' whatever be its antiquity,...exquisitely refined than « either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both ia ' the roots of verbs, and in the forms of grammar, than could... | |
| 1851 - 696 pages
...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...exquisitely ' refined than either — yet bearing to both of them a stronger ' affinity, both in the roots of the verbs and in the forms of ' grammar, than... | |
| Samuel Miller - Art, Modern - 1805 - 432 pages
...Sanscrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure ; more perfect than the Gnek, 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 and in the forms of grammar, than could... | |
| John Shore Baron Teignmouth - India - 1806 - 566 pages
...introduced into it, by conquerors from other kingdoms in some very remote age. The Sanscrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure...more exquisitely refined than either; yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs, and in the form of grammar, than could... | |
| Ossian - 1807 - 596 pages
...every complex idea by circumlocution.*- Sir William Jones tells us, f that " the Sanscrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure...more exquisitely refined than either; yet bearing to both a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly... | |
| Sir William Jones - 1807 - 554 pages
...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 structure...more exquisitely refined than either ; yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs, and in the form of grammar, than could... | |
| William Jones - 1807 - 534 pages
...introduced into it, by conquerors from other kingdoms in some very remote age. The Sanscrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure;...more exquisitely refined than either ; yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs, and in the form of grammar, than could... | |
| John Shore Baron Teignmouth - 1807 - 488 pages
...has prevailed in it. ^ The Sanfcrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful ftru&ure ; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquifitely^jrefined than either, yet bearing to both of them a ftronger affinity, both in the roots... | |
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