| 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...of them a stronger ' affinity, both in the roots of the verbs and in the forms of ' grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident ; ' so... | |
| 1830 - 622 pages
...The ' Sanscrit language,' he observes, ' whatever be its antiquity, is ' of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more ' copious than the...bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both ia ' the roots of verbs, and in the forms of grammar, than could ' possibly have been produced by accident... | |
| 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...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,... | |
| John Shore Baron Teignmouth - India - 1806 - 636 pages
...some very remote age. The Sanscrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure ; more perfect than, the Greek, more copious than the...of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs, and in the form of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident ; so strong indeed,... | |
| William Jones - 1807 - 534 pages
...some very remote age. The Sanscrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the...of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs, and in the form of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident ; so strong indeed,... | |
| Sir William Jones - 1807 - 554 pages
...some very remote age. The Sati;c;-k language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure ; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the...of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs, and in the form of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident ; so strong indeed,... | |
| Ezra Sampson - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1813 - 434 pages
...Sanscrit language, (says Sir William Jones) whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure ; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the...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,... | |
| Ezra Sampson - Children's encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1816 - 432 pages
...Sanscrit language, (says Sir William Jones') whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure ; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the...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,... | |
| Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 532 pages
...Discourse, in particular it may be observed, he remarks the wonderful structure of the Sanscrit, " more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the...of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and in the form of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident, though their... | |
| Sir William Jones - 1824 - 336 pages
...fill structure ; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refmed 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,... | |
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