| David Oliver Allen - 1856 - 646 էջ
...people. The Sanscrit is a highly polished language. Sir William Jones says : — " It is a language of wonderful structure, more perfect than the Greek,...Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either." Halhed says : — "As a language it is very copious and nervous, and far exceeds the Greek and Arabic... | |
| DAVID O.. ALLEN, D. D. - 1856 - 636 էջ
...people. The Sanscrit is a highly polished language. Sir William Jones says : — " It is a language of wonderful structure, more perfect than the Greek,...Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either." Halhed says : — "As a language it is very copious and nervous, and far exceeds the Greek and Arabic... | |
| William Chauncey Fowler - 1858 - 424 էջ
...Hindostanee, the Bengalee, the Pali-Mahratta, &c. Sir William Jones says, " The Sanscrit language is a wonderful structure ; more perfect than the Greek,...of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of the verbs and in the forms of grammar, than could have been produced by any accident ; so strong, indeed,... | |
| Encyclopaedia - 1858 - 412 էջ
...contemplated by Sir William Jones as probable. He said, " that the old sacred language of India was more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the...more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to each of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of the verbs, and in the forms of the Grammar,... | |
| Thomas Paine - 1859 - 618 էջ
...researches,) " The Sanscrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of wonderful structure ; it is more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either." These hints, whfch are intended to be continued, will serve to show that a society for inquiring into... | |
| Friedrich Max Müller - 1861 - 420 էջ
...after the first glance at Sanskrit, declared that whatever its antiquity, it was a language of most wonderful structure, more perfect than the Greek,...refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a strong affinity. " No philologer," he writes, " could examine the Sanskrit, Greek, and Latin, without... | |
| 1860 - 612 էջ
...with the two learned languages of Europe, attested its superiority over both, for it is, as he said, " more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either." It is, in short, the most perfect and most beautiful language in existence. Its nouns, like the Greek,... | |
| Friedrich Max Müller - 1862 - 454 էջ
...after the first glance at Sanskrit, declared that whatever its antiquity, it was a language of most wonderful structure, more perfect than the Greek,...refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a strong affinity. " No philologer," he writes, " could examine the Sanskrit, Greek, and Latin, without... | |
| Colesworthey Grant - 1862 - 228 էջ
...laws, their great poetical and philosophical works ; — " a language (in the words of Sir W. Jones) of wonderful structure ; more perfect than the Greek,...Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either." The Bengalee, which has character, though little or no literature, entirely its own, is but little... | |
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