 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...  Life in India - Page 29by Caleb Wright - 1854 - 304 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Kirsten Malmkjær - Foreign Language Study - 2002 - 696 pages
...(in Lehmann 1967: 15): 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 and in the forms of grammar,... | |
 | Lia Formigari - Philosophy - 2004 - 270 pages
...of a Persian grammar. He described Sanskrit as a language characterized by 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 and in the forms of grammar,... | |
 | E. Sreedharan - History - 2004 - 600 pages
...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;... | |
 | Gabriele Brandstetter, Gerhard Neumann - Arts - 2004 - 440 pages
...die Idealisierungen: 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 strenger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar... | |
 | Martha Barnette - Flowers - 2005 - 211 pages
...word origins: . . . [T]he Sanskrit language, whatever may be its antiquity, is of 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 and in the forms of grammar,... | |
 | Friedrich August von Hayek - Austrian school of economics - 2005 - 610 pages
...1807, III, S. 34: »The Sanscrit 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 and in the forms of grammar,... | |
 | Darca Lee Nicholson, BFA, MA, CMT - 2007 - 262 pages
...February 2, 1786 said: The Sanskrit language, whatever 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 and in the forms of grammar,... | |
 | Tomoko Masuzawa - Religion - 2005 - 384 pages
...Bengal, Jones declared: The Sanscrit 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 and in the forms of grammar,... | |
 | Daṇḍin - Fiction - 2005 - 664 pages
...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... | |
 | Russill Paul - Health & Fitness - 2010 - 336 pages
...resonance of sacred sound. "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 and in the forms of grammar,... | |
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