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" The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs... "
The Miscellaneous and Posthumous Works of Henry Thomas Buckle - Page 19
by Henry Thomas Buckle - 1872
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Asiatic Researches, Volume 1

Asiatick Society (Calcutta, India) - Asia - 1801 - 580 pages
...Latin, and more exquifitely refined than cither ; yet bearing to both of them a ftronger affinity, affinity, both in the roots of verbs, and in the forms of grammar, than could poffibly have been produced by accident ; fo ftrong, indeed, that no philologer could examine them...
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 94

1851 - 696 pages
...once, ' that the old sacred language of India was more perfect than ' the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely ' refined than either...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...
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 51

1830 - 622 pages
...its antiquity, is ' of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more ' copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than « either,...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...
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A Brief Retrospect of the Eighteenth Century: Part the First in ..., Volume 2

Samuel Miller - Art, Modern - 1805 - 432 pages
...whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure ; more perfect than the Gnek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either; yet...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,...
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Memoirs of the Life, Writings and Correspondence, of Sir William Jones, Volume 2

John Shore Baron Teignmouth - India - 1806 - 636 pages
...be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure ; more perfect than, the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either; yet...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, that no philologer...
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Indian Antiquities: Or, Dissertations, Relative to the Ancient ..., Volume 7

Thomas Maurice - India - 1806 - 402 pages
...the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to each of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of...in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have * See Analysis of Ancient Mythology, yol. iii. p. 30. been produced by accident; so strong indeed,...
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The poems of Ossian, in the orig. Gaelic, with a tr. into Lat. by ..., Volume 3

Ossian - 1807 - 596 pages
...the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either; yet bearing to both a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and...been produced by accident; so strong indeed that no philologer could examine them all without believing them to have come from one common source, which...
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The Works of Sir William Jones, Volume 2

William Jones - 1807 - 534 pages
...whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either ;...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, that no philologer...
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Works, Volume 2

Sir William Jones - 1807 - 554 pages
...be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure ; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either ;...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, that no philologer...
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Works, Volume 3

Sir William Jones - 1807 - 480 pages
...copious than the Latin, and more exquifitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a ftronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar, than could poffibly have been produced by accident ; fo ftrong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all...
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