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" 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... "
The poems of Ossian, in the orig. Gaelic, with a tr. into Lat. by R ... - Page 408
by Ossian - 1807
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The Cambridge History of the English Language, Volume 4

Richard M. Hogg, Norman Francis Blake, Suzanne Romaine, Roger Lass, R. W. Burchfield - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1992 - 828 pages
...Jones announced that he found Sanskrit to bear a 'stronger affinity' to the Latin and Greek languages 'than could possibly have been produced by accident;...indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them to have sprung from some common source which, perhaps, no longer exists'....
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Comparative Arawakan Histories: Rethinking Language Family and Culture Area ...

Jonathan D. Hill, Fernando Santos-Granero - Social Science - 2002 - 360 pages
...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...indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists:...
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Serial Verbs in Oceanic: A Descriptive Typology

Terry Crowley - Foreign Language Study - 2002 - 308 pages
...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...indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps no longer exists:...
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The Linguistics Encyclopedia

Kirsten Malmkjær - Foreign Language Study - 2002 - 696 pages
...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...indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them to have sprung from some common source which, perhaps, no longer exists:...
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The Variegated Plumage: Encounters with Indian Philosophy : a Commemoration ...

Narendranath B. Patil - Philosophy - 2003 - 432 pages
...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...indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps no longer exists"....
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The Handbook of Linguistics

Mark Aronoff, Janie Rees-Miller - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2003 - 854 pages
...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...indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists....
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Christians and Missionaries in India: Cross-cultural Communication Since ...

Robert Eric Frykenberg, Alaine M. Low - Religion - 2003 - 436 pages
...the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affmity, both in the roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar,...been produced by accident; so strong indeed, that no philologist could examine them all three, without believing them to have sprung from some common source,...
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Fortunes of History: Historical Inquiry from Herder to Huizinga

Donald R. Kelley - History - 2008 - 440 pages
...yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of the verbs and the forms of the grammar, than could possibly have been produced by...indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists."11...
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A Modern Theory of Language Evolution

Carl J. Becker - Anthropological linguistics - 2004 - 413 pages
...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...indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists....
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The Linguistics Encyclopedia

Kirsten Malmkjær - Foreign Language Study - 2002 - 696 pages
...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...indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them to have sprung from some common source which, perhaps, no longer exists:...
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