 | Thomas Maurice - India - 1806 - 402 pages
...Ancient Mythology, yol. iii. p. 30. been produced by accident; so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three without believing them...from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists. There is a similar reason, though not quite so forcible, for supposing that both the Gothic... | |
 | William Jones - 1807 - 534 pages
...grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident ; so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three without believing them...sprung from some common source, which perhaps no longer exists. There is a similar reason, though not quite so forcible, for supposing that both the Gothick... | |
 | Classical philology - 1819 - 496 pages
...India, and in his third anniversary discourse declares, respecting the languages, " that no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them...sprung from some common source, which perhaps no longer exists." The Sanskrita was most probably the more ancient of the three, and as the Latin is but the... | |
 | Ezra Sampson - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1813 - 434 pages
...possibly have been produced by accident ; so strong, indeed, that no philologer could examine them all, without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists." SARACENS, a people celebrated some centuries ago, who came from the deserts of Arabia. They... | |
 | Ezra Sampson - Children's encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1816 - 432 pages
...possibly have been produced by accident ; so strong, indeed, that no philologer could examine them all, without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists." SARACENS, a people celebrated some centuries ago, who came from the desarts of Arabia. They... | |
 | George Oliver - Freemasonry - 1823 - 406 pages
...Sanscrit languages," says Sir W. Jones, " bear so great a resemblance to each other, that no philologer could examine them all three without believing them...sprung from some common source, which perhaps no longer exists."* * Asiat. Researches, vol. i. After the invention of letters, it would not be long before... | |
 | Sir William Jones - Asia - 1824 - 356 pages
...grammar, lhan could possibly have been produced by accident; so strung, indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three without believing them...from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists. There is a similar reason, though not quite so forcible, for supposing that both the Gothic... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - Logic - 1827 - 414 pages
...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...from some common " source which perhaps no longer exists, "t The only possible supposition, I apprehend, on which all this can be explained, is, that... | |
 | Vans Kennedy - Asia - 1828 - 348 pages
...grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident ; so strong, indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them...from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists." * It is, therefore, the structure of Sanscrit which so peculiarly distinguishes it from other... | |
 | 1828 - 602 pages
...concord and government. No philologist acquainted with both languages, Sir W. Jones says, could help believing them ' to have sprung from ' some common source, which perhaps no longer exists.' It is not, however, in the language itself, so much as in the artificial forms and rules of... | |
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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 possibly have been produced by accident; so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine... 
