...Asiatic Society of Bengal, 'the first Englishman to know Sanskrit', said of that language that it was 'more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the...Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either'. The entry in Buckland's Dictionary of Indian Biography (1906) noted the deleterious effects of these...

...of the new revelations, not always warranted by the sources. Jones had found the Sanskrit language "more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either "" He labored to show that the Indian division of the Zodiac was not borrowed from the Greeks or Arabs;...

...celebrated third presidential address to the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Jones declared: The Sanscrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful...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...

...in: Asiatic Researches, I, S. 422, Nachdruck in seinen Works, London 1807, III, S. 34: »The Sanscrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful...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...

...speaking to the Asiatic Society in Calcutta, February 2, 1786 said: The Sanskrit language, whatever its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect...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 philosopher...

...introduction to books about word origins: . . . [T]he 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 possibly have been produced by accident; so strong that no philologer...

...in: Asiatic Researches, I, S. 422, Nachdruck in seinen Works, London 1807, III, S. 34: »The Sanscrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful...refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a strenger affmity, both in the roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have...

...ancient Sanskrit: The Sanscrit language, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Creek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely...of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of the verbs and in the forms of the grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident ...'....

...philologist WILLIAM JONES, already in 1786, eulogized the "wonderful structure" of the Sanskrit language as "more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely ref1ned than either." Dandin's writing is a case in point. Nevertheless, our novel stands apart from...

...passage of his writings, from his 'Discourse on the Hindus'. '° I quote it yet again: The Sanscrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful...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, than no philologer...