 | Martha Barnette - Flowers - 2005 - 211 pages
...introduction to books about word origins: . . . [T]he 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 possibly... | |
 | Hermione De Almeida, George H. Gilpin - Art - 2005 - 364 pages
...ancient Sanskrit: The Sanscrit language, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Creek, 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 the verbs and in the forms of the grammar, than could... | |
 | 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... | |
 | William Jones - Asianists - 2006 - 198 pages
...the most cited passage of his writings, from his 'Discourse on the Hindus'. 10 I quote it yet again: 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... | |
 | Stefan Arvidsson - History - 2006 - 367 pages
...their language, culture, and religion. The locus classicus in "Oriental" Jones's lecture is as follows: 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 form of grammar, than could possibly... | |
 | Abdul Jamil Khan - Foreign Language Study - 2006 - 420 pages
...that the Sanscrit was introduced into it, by conquerors from other kingdoms in some very remote age. 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 form 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... 
