... 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 the Celtick, though blended with a very different idiom, had the same origin with the Sanscrit;... The Sanskrit Language - Page 6by Thomas Burrow - 2001 - 438 pagesLimited preview - About this book
| Asiatick Society (Calcutta, India) - Asia - 1801 - 580 pages
...fuppofing that both the Gothick and the Celtick, though blended with a very different idiom, had the fame origin with the Sanscrit ; and the old Persian might be added to the fame family, if this were the place for difcufling any queftion concerning the antiquities of Persia.... | |
| Samuel Miller - Art, Modern - 1805 - 432 pages
...forcible, for supposing that both the Gothic and the Celtic, though blended with very different idioms, had the same origin with the Sanscrit : and the old Persian might be added to the same family." See sir William Jones'i Third Discourse before the Asiatic Society \ useful exertions to promote the... | |
| Ossian - 1807 - 596 pages
...body revolving, from which we have, in Gaelic, grisach, hot burning embers, and other derivatives. origin with the Sanscrit ; and the old Persian might be added to the same family." Mr. Marsden, in his History of Sumatra, tells us, " that one general language prevailed (however mutilated... | |
| John Shore Baron Teignmouth - Asianists - 1807 - 668 pages
...not quite so forcible, for supposing that both the Got/tick and Celtick, though blended with a very different idiom, had the same origin with the Sanscrit ; and the old Persia* might be added to the same family. .. The Deb-nagari characters, in which the languages of... | |
| Classical philology - 1811 - 560 pages
...the forms of their grammar,] for supposing both the Celtic and the Gothic, though blended with a very different idiom, had the same origin with the Sanscrit : and the old Persian may be added to the same family.' [Wilford, in vol. viii. p. 265. 269. of the Asiatic Researches.]... | |
| Charles O'Conor - Manuscripts - 1819 - 624 pages
...supposing that both " the Gothick and the Celtick, though blended with a very different idiom, bad the same origin " with the Sanscrit ; and the old Persian might be added to the same family." Sir William adds, that the characters called " Nagari," in which the languages of India were originally... | |
| Sir William Jones - Asia - 1824 - 356 pages
...quite so forcible, for supposing that both the Gothic and the < > 1tic, though blended with a very different idiom, had the same origin with the Sanscrit;...the old Persian might be added to the same family, if this were the place for discussing any qnestion concerning the antiquities of Persia. The characters,... | |
| Universalism - 1887 - 544 pages
...a similar reason, though not quite so forcible, for supposing that both the Gothic and the Celtic, though blended with a different idiom, had the same origin with the Sanskrit." This, you will remember, is the -statement of one hundred years ago. In 1789 this same industrious... | |
| Scotland - 1873 - 354 pages
...a similar reason, though not quite so forcible, for supposing that both the Gothic and the Celtic, though blended with a different idiom, had the same origin with the Sanskrit. The old Persian may be added to the same family." The next in order who secured the attention... | |
| Berthold Delbrück - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1882 - 168 pages
...There is a similar reason, though not quite so forcible, for supposing that both the Gothic and Celtic, though blended with a different idiom, had the same origin with the Sanskrit." (Cf. BENFEY, Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaft, page 348.) In the main coincident with the... | |
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