 Latin, and more 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 have been produced by accident; so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine...  The Collected Works of Dugald Stewart - Page 97by Dugald Stewart - 1854Full view - About this book
 | Adrian Akmajian, Richard A. Demer, Ann K. Farmer, Robert M. Harnish - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2001 - 628 pages
...of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them...from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists: there is a similar reason, though not quite so forcible, for supposing that both the Gothic... | |
 | Joseph Farrell - Foreign Language Study - 2001 - 170 pages
...Bengal that the relationship among Greek, Latin, and Sanskrit was "so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three without believing them...from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists."22 He further opined that Gothic, Celtic, and Persian belonged to the same "family" of languages.... | |
 | Richard M. Hogg, Norman Francis Blake, Suzanne Romaine, Roger Lass, R. W. Burchfield - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1992 - 828 pages
...languages 'than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them...from some common source which, perhaps, no longer exists'. Jones also supposed that Gothic, Celtic, and Persian belonged to the same family. On the Continent,... | |
 | Edwin Bryant - Electronic books - 2001 - 400 pages
...grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong, indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them...from some common source which, perhaps, no longer exists: there is a similar reason, though not quite so forcible, for supposing that both the Gothick... | |
 | Li Jin, Mark Seielstad, Chunjie Xiao - History - 2001 - 196 pages
...of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them...sprung from some common source, which perhaps no longer exists; there is a similar reason, though not quite so forcible, for supposing that both the Gothick... | |
 | Aniket Jaaware - Linguistics in literature - 2001 - 576 pages
...grammar, than could have been produced by accident; so strong that no philologer could examine all the three without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which perhaps no longer exists.6 The second is from Friedrich Schlegel (1772-1829), from a book on India that he published... | |
 | Thomas Burrow - Foreign Language Study - 2001 - 486 pages
...possibly have been produced by accident ; so strong indeed that no philologer could examine them at all without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which perhaps no longer exists. There is a similar reason though not quite so forcible, for supposing that both the Gothick... | |
 | Joseph Twadell Shipley - Foreign Language Study - 2001 - 688 pages
...(1745-1794), while a judge in Calcutta, declared: "No philologer can examine the Sanskrit, Greek, and Latin, without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists." He was right: the original speech, the primal Indo-European from which a hundred languages... | |
 | Edo Nyland - Foreign Language Study - 2001 - 576 pages
...possibly have been produced by accident; so strong, indeed, that nophilologer could examine them all without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists. " The "perfect" phonological relationships between the examples he gave was there for everyone... | |
 | Mariasusai Dhavamony - Religion - 2002 - 234 pages
...of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accidem; so strong indeed that no philologer could examine them all three without believing them...sprung from some common source, which perhaps no longer exists.22 From varied and diverse angles language emerges as one of the key issues —if not the key... | |
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