 | Bholanauth Chunder - Bengal (India) - 1869 - 498 pages
...intelligence of a progressive world. Not altogether to abandon the Sanscrit, which has been pronounced to be ' more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either,' let the study of that precious language be left to amateurs and philologists,... | |
 | Edward Thomson - Christianity and other religions - 1870 - 276 pages
...books are written — Sanscrit — is of unfathomable aiTtiquity, and,- according to Sir William Jones, more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more excellently refined than either ; and, in the judgment of the learned, capable of expressing every... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - Language - 1870 - 274 pages
...Researches (i. 422). ' The Sanskrit language, whatever may 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... | |
 | Literature - 1873 - 860 pages
...as well as they, Sir William Jones, has deliberately pronounced it to be " of a wonderful structure, more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either;" and few who have passed its threshold will be disposed to arraign... | |
 | Albert William Hughes - India - 1871 - 352 pages
...been highly language. commended by Sir .William Jones, who describes it as "of a wonderful structure, more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either." Budhism, a branch as is supposed of Brahminism, resembles the latter... | |
 | Donald Loritz - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1999 - 242 pages
...Theory of Evolution 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 strong affinity, both in the roots of... | |
 | Sailendra Nath Sen - India - 1999 - 672 pages
...head of many languages: The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful creation, more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either. Despite the repeated foreign invasions that engulfed the country,... | |
 | Peter Schmitter - Comparative linguistics - 1996 - 510 pages
...meme preoccupation: The Sanskrit language, whatever may be its antiquity, is of a wonderful 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 affmity, both in the roots of... | |
 | Michael J. Franklin - Deccan (India) - 2000 - 580 pages
...has prevailed in it. The Sarfcrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful ftructure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the...more exquifitely refined than either; yet bearing to both of them a Wronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs, and in the forms of grammar, than could... | |
 | Homer - Fiction - 2000 - 324 pages
...is a brief extract: 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... | |
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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... 
