 | David Crystal, Hilary Crystal - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2000 - 604 pages
...understand. Samuel Johnson, 1755, Л Dictionary of the English Language, Preface 16:43 The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful...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, than could possibly... | |
 | R. S. Perinbanayagam - Philosophy - 2000 - 324 pages
...to students of historical linguistics: The Sanskrit language, whatever may be its antiquity, is of wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek,...exquisitely refined than either; yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in roots of verbs and in forms of grammar, than could have been produced... | |
 | Burton Feldman, Robert D. Richardson - Literary Criticism - 1972 - 598 pages
...however, was his observation, in 1786, that The Sanskrit language, whatever may be its antiquity, is of wonderful structure: more perfect than the Greek,...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, than could have... | |
 | Peter France - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2000 - 692 pages
...Enlightenment. With the discovery of Sanskrit [II.1.2], which Sir William Jones in 1796 declared to be 'of wonderful structure, more perfect than the Greek,...Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either', the new discipline of comparative philology was born, which led to the conceptualization of the IndoEuropean... | |
 | Michael J. Franklin - Deccan (India) - 2000 - 580 pages
...'Third Anniversary Discourse' to the Asiatick Society, which contains the following famous passage: The Sanscrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than ihe Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both... | |
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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... 
