 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...  Works - Page 248by Sir William Jones - 1807Full view - About this book
 | Elizabeth Wayland Barber - Design - 2000 - 262 pages
...Sanskrit texts of India (newly "discovered" by European scholars) bore to Classical Greek and Latin "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, that no philologer... | |
 | Edwin Bryant - Electronic books - 2001 - 400 pages
...quotation, has by now become the mangaldcdra of comparative philology: The Sanskrit language, whatever may be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more...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, that no philologer... | |
 | Aniket Jaaware - Linguistics in literature - 2001 - 576 pages
...Bengal Asiatic Society, Calcutta, in 1786: The Sanskrit language, whatever may be its antiquity, is of wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek,...stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar, than could have been produced by accident; so strong that no philologer could examine... | |
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