| James Forbes - 1834 - 578 sivua
...inexhaustible mine of Hindoo literature, art, and science; which, Sir William Jones says, is u a most wonderful structure ; more perfect than the Greek,...of verbs, and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all... | |
| James Forbes - 1834 - 712 sivua
...William Jones says, is " a most wonderful structure ; more perfect than the BANKS OF THE NERBUDDA. 99 Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely...of verbs, and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident ; so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all... | |
| William Balfour Winning - 1838 - 326 sivua
...after confirmed and added to Mr. Halhed's observations. He says, — " The Sanskrit language is of a wonderful structure ; more perfect than the Greek,...affinity, both in the roots of verbs and in the forms of 3 Uber die Zend sprache, p. 6. 4 Raffles' History of Java, vol. ip 368. grammar, than could possibly... | |
| Alexander Duff - 1839 - 738 sivua
...etymology." In a similar strain, Sir W. Jones still more emphatically remarks, " It is a language of wonderful structure ; more perfect than the Greek...Latin ; and more exquisitely refined than either." The voice which thus issued from the oracles, on the banks of the Ganges, has been re-echoed from the... | |
| Mountstuart Elphinstone - 1841 - 656 sivua
...acquaintance with those of other ancient and modern nations entitles his opinion to respect, to be " of a wonderful structure ; more perfect than the Greek,...Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either."* The language so highly commended seems always to have received the attention it deserved. Panini, the... | |
| Johann Christoph Kröger - 1842 - 400 sivua
...оЬд!иф otS 23о(Е5Гргафе (forben, in ben ^eiligen S^riften bief« Soif et unb bercn ftrueture; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the...of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verb«, and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly bare been produced by accident; so strong,... | |
| Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1842 - 744 sivua
...Latin, more perfect than the Greek, and more exquisitely refined than either ; yet that it bears to each of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and in the form of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident." It appears that Sanscrit was... | |
| Sergej Semenovič Uvarov - 1843 - 388 sivua
...Discours sur f inégalité des conditions. (3) The sanscrit language, whatever be its antiquhy, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek,...than either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinhy, both in the roots of verbs, and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced... | |
| 1843 - 822 sivua
...remarkable. The euloginm which its enthusiastic cultivator, Sir \V. Jones, passed on it — that it " is a wonderful structure, more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisаely refined than either — has received little, if any, deduction from subsequent and moro... | |
| graf Sergeĭ Semenovich Uvarov - 1843 - 418 sivua
...be Hs antiquity, is of a wonderful structure-, more perfect thaii thé Greek, more copious lhan thé Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of ihem a stronger affinity, both in thé roots of verbs, and in thé forins of grammar, than could possibly... | |
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