 | Charles Wallwyn Radcliffe Cooke - 1864 - 98 էջ
...the language in which that literature is embodied. The Sanskrit language is styled by Sir W. Jones " a wonderful structure ; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more excellently refined than either." Numberless are the grammars, dictionaries, and treatises on rhetoric,... | |
 | John Laws Milton - 1864 - 668 էջ
...the very first, to find the key to this mystery in the Sanskrit, to observe that it was a Ianguage of wonderful structure, more perfect than the greek, more copious than the latin, more exquisitely refined than either, and that it was impossible to compare the three without arriving... | |
 | 1866 - 604 էջ
...the founders. 'The Sanserit language, whatever be its * ' Lectures,' lit Series, p. 139. antiquity, antiquity, is of a wonderful structure ; more perfect...indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists... | |
 | Aniket Jaaware - 2001 - 576 էջ
...Bengal Asiatic Society, Calcutta, in 1786: The Sanskrit language, whatever may be its antiquity, is of wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek,...roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar, than could have been produced by accident; so strong that no philologer could examine all the three without believing... | |
 | Thomas Burrow - 2001 - 486 էջ
...outlines the significance of the new discovery : ' The Sanscrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of wonderful structure ; more perfect than the Greek,...a stronger affinity both in the roots of verbs and the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident ; so strong indeed that no... | |
 | Li Jin, Mark Seielstad, Chunjie Xiao - 2001 - 196 էջ
...homeland of speakers of ancient languages. 3. To date splits among languages. "The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure;...refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a strong affinity, both in the roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been... | |
 | Edo Nyland - 2001 - 576 էջ
...languages, such as Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, Gothic, Celtic and Persian must come from the same source: "a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and...been produced by accident; so strong, indeed, that nophilologer could examine them all without believing them to have sprung from some common source,... | |
 | Adrian Akmajian, Richard A. Demer, Ann K. Farmer, Robert M. Harnish - 2001 - 628 էջ
...classical and other ancient languages was Sir William Jones, who wrote in 1786 that The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure;...perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin ... yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and in the forms of... | |
 | Richard M. Hogg, Norman Francis Blake, Suzanne Romaine, Roger Lass, R. W. Burchfield - 1992 - 828 էջ
...Jones announced that he found Sanskrit to bear a 'stronger affinity' to the Latin and Greek languages 'than could possibly have been produced by accident;...indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them to have sprung from some common source which, perhaps, no longer exists'.... | |
 | Kirsten Malmkjær - 2002 - 696 էջ
...origin, which perhaps no longer existed. In his words (in Lehmann 1967: 15): The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure;...indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them to have sprung from some common source which, perhaps, no longer exists:... | |
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The Sanscrit 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... 
