 | 1829 - 536 pages
...their existence, but no more! The Sanscrit language (says Sir Wm. Jones, third discourse on the Hindus) whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure,...exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them n stronger affinity both in the roots of verbs, and in the forms of grammar than could possibly have... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 524 pages
...assertion. — See his Geography, \ ol. I. p. 718. t Edinburgh Review, Vol. XIII. p. 369. VOL. III. 12 Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely...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... | |
 | Friedrich von Adelung - Sanskrit language - 1832 - 270 pages
... i 2 V AN HISTORICAL SKETCH OF SANSCRIT LITERATURE. THE SANSCRIT LANGUAGE, WHATEVER BE ITS ANTIQUITY,...THAN THE GREEK, MORE COPIOUS THAN THE LATIN, AND MORE EXCELLENTLY REFINED THAN EITHER. SIR WILLIAM JONES. HISTORICAL SKETCH OF SANSCRIT LITERATURE, WITH... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1832 - 574 pages
...millions by whom it is held in sacred veneration. Of the tongue Itself, Sir William Jones observes, " The Sanscrit language, whatever be its antiquity,...wonderful structure ; more perfect than the Greek, mure copious than the Latin, and more excellently refined than either." if. Von Humboldt speaks of... | |
 | Charles Coleman - Asia - 1832 - 514 pages
...merely, but our souls and) our intellects." Their ancient language, the Sanscrit, is described as being more perfect than the Greek, — more copious than...Latin, — and more exquisitely refined than either. It has been urged against them, by some most respectable authors, that their deities are nothing but... | |
 | James Forbes - India - 1834 - 578 pages
...inexhaustible mine of Hindoo literature, art, and science; which, Sir William Jones says, is u a most 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 indeed, that no philologer... | |
 | James Forbes - India - 1834 - 712 pages
...William Jones says, is " a most wonderful structure ; more perfect than the BANKS OF THE NERBUDDA. 99 Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely...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... | |
 | William Balfour Winning - History, Ancient - 1838 - 322 pages
...Jones soon after confirmed and added to Mr. Halhed's observations. He says,—" The Sanskrit language is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the...stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and in the forms of 3 Uber die Zend sprache, p. 6. 4 Raffles' History of Java, vol. ip 368. grammar, than could... | |
 | Alexander Duff - Hinduism - 1839 - 738 pages
...etymology." In a similar strain, Sir W. Jones still more emphatically remarks, " It is a language of wonderful structure ; more perfect than the Greek...Latin ; and more exquisitely refined than either." The voice which thus issued from the oracles, on the banks of the Ganges, has been re-echoed from the... | |
 | Mountstuart Elphinstone - India - 1841 - 656 pages
...acquaintance with those of other ancient and modern nations entitles his opinion to respect, to be " of a wonderful structure ; more perfect than the Greek,...Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either."* The language so highly commended seems always to have received the attention it deserved. Panini, the... | |
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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... 
