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" ... 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 6
by Thomas Burrow - 2001 - 438 pages
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Asiatic Researches, Volume 1

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....
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A Brief Retrospect of the Eighteenth Century: Part the First in ..., Volume 2

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...
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The poems of Ossian, in the orig. Gaelic, with a tr. into Lat. by ..., Volume 3

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...
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Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Correspondence, of Sir William Jones

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...
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The Classical Journal, Volume 4

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.]...
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Bibliotheca Ms. Stowensis: A Descriptive Catalogue of the ..., Volume 2

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...
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Discourses Delivered Before the Asiatic Society: And Miscellaneous Papers ...

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,...
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The Universalist Quarterly and General Review, Volume 24; Volume 44

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...
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An gaidheal: paipeir-naidheachd agus leabhar-sgeoil gaidhealach, Volume 1

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...
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Introduction to the Study of Language: A Critical Survey of the History and ...

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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