 | Terry Crowley - Foreign Language Study - 2002 - 308 pages
...Indo-European tthough without that name) and the related idea of language families back in l786: 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... | |
 | Kirsten Malmkjær - Foreign Language Study - 2002 - 696 pages
...the same origin, which perhaps no longer existed. In his words (in Lehmann 1967: 15): 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... | |
 | Jonathan D. Hill, Fernando Santos-Granero - Social Science - 2002 - 360 pages
...English. The often-quoted observation states that "The Sanskrit language, whatever 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 possibly... | |
 | Owen Barfield - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2002 - 244 pages
...the European and Sanskrit languages. In 1786 Sir William Jones described that language as being 'of wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek,...than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than i9 either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and in the forms... | |
 | Mariasusai Dhavamony - Religion - 2002 - 234 pages
...Hungarian and Finnish belong to the Finno-Ugrian family. The Sanskrit language, whatever be its amiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latm, and more exquisitely refmed than either; yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both... | |
 | Mark Aronoff, Janie Rees-Miller - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2003 - 854 pages
...The most repeated passage in linguistic history is Sir William Jones' (17461794) statement in 1786: The Sanscrit language, whatever be its antiquity,...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... | |
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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... 
