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 | Sir William Jones - 1807 - 470 pages
...intercourfe, both in war and "peace, between the Perfians and the nations in the north of Europe and Afia, whom the ancients knew by the general name of Scythians. Many learned inveftigators of antiquity are fully perfuaded, that a very old and almoft primasval language was in... | |
 | William Jones - 1807 - 452 pages
...intercourfe, both in war and peace, between the Perfians and the nations in the north of Europe and Afiat. \ whom the ancients knew by the general name of Scythians. Many learned inveftigators of antiquity are fully perfuaded, that a very old and almoft primaeval language was in... | |
 | International Congress of Orientalists - 1874 - 80 pages
....than a hundred years ago, in a letter written toPrince Adam Czartoryski. in the year 1770, he says : "Many learned investigators of antiquity are fully persuaded, that a very old and almost primeval language was in use among the northern nations, from which not only the Celtic dialect, but... | |
 | Robert K. Douglas - Asia - 1876 - 516 pages
...than a hundred years ago, in a letter written to Prince Adam Czartoryski, in the year 1770, he says: "Many learned investigators of antiquity are fully persuaded that a very old and almost primeval language was in use among the northern nations, from which not only the Celtic dialect, but... | |
 | Sir Robert Kennaway Douglas - Asia - 1876 - 518 pages
...than a hundred years ago, in a letter written to Prince Adam Czartoryski, in the year 1770, he says: "Many learned investigators of antiquity are fully persuaded that a very old and almost primeval language was in use among the northern nations, from which not only the Celtic dialect, but... | |
 | Sir Robert Kennaway Douglas - Asia - 1876 - 516 pages
...a hundred years ago, in a letter written to Prince Adam Czartoryski, in the year 1770, he says : " Many learned investigators of antiquity are fully persuaded that a very old and almost primeval language was in use among the northern nations, from -which not only the Celtic dialect, hut... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - Comparative linguistics - 1876 - 588 pages
...a hundred years ago, in a letter written to Prince Adam Czartoryski, in the year 1770, he says : " Many learned investigators of antiquity are fully persuaded, that a very old and almost primeval language was in use among the northern nations, from which not only the Celtic dialect, but... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - Language and languages - 1881 - 610 pages
...than a hundred years ago, in a letter written to Prince Adam Czartoryski, in the year 1770, he says: 'Many learned investigators of antiquity are fully persuaded that a very old and almost primeval language was in use among the northern nations, from which not only the Celtic dialect, but... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - Comparative linguistics - 1891 - 636 pages
...'How so many European words crept into the Persian language, I know not with certainty. Procopius, I think, mentions the great intercourse, both in war...of Europe and Asia, whom the ancients knew by the 1 Halted was a servant of the East-India Company. He was born 1751, and died 1836. Halhed published... | |
 | Bruce Lincoln - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1999 - 315 pages
...Czartoryski): "How so many European words crept into the Persian language I know not with certainty. Procopius, I think, mentions the great intercourse both in war...nations from which not only the Celtic dialects but even the Greek and Latin are derived; in fact we find pater and mater in Persian, nor is dugater so... | |
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