 | 1887 - 544 sivua
...century ago, he expressed himself thus : " The Sanskrit language, whatever may be its antiquity, is of wonderful structure ; more perfect than the Greek,...forms of grammar, than could have been produced by accideut ; so strong that no philologer could examine all the three without believing them to have... | |
 | 1867 - 848 sivua
...notice of the learned in the following words : " The Sanscrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure, more perfect than the Greek,...roots of verbs, and in the forms of grammar than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong, indeed, that no philosopher could examine them... | |
 | 1844 - 612 sivua
...orientalists, has been amply vindicated : " The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure ; more perfect than the Greek,...refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a strong affinity." Colebrooke, whose attainments in the knowledge of the language were unequalled in... | |
 | 1847 - 556 sivua
...threw light upon a language which he afterwards, according to his famous dictum, pronounced to be " of wonderful structure : more perfect than the Greek,...Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either." Since that time an interest in this and in other oriental tongues has spread rapidly over England,... | |
 | 1847 - 824 sivua
...Sanscrit Sir William Jones makes this remark : l " The Sanscrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more excellently refined than either." If we must take this with much allowance, still no one can receive... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1848 - 784 sivua
...acquainted with the Sacred language of India, said, "The Sanscrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek,...refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a strong affinity ;" and it would be difficult to characterise this language better than in the words... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1848 - 680 sivua
...acquainted with the Sacred language of India, said, "The Sanscrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek,...refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a strong affinity ;" and it would be difficult to characterise this language better than in the words... | |
 | Chevalier Bunsen, Charles Meyer, Friedrich Max Müller - 1848 - 110 sivua
...acquainted with the Sacred language of India, said, "The Sanscrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure ; more perfect than the Greek,...refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a strong affinity;" and it would be difficult to characterise this language better than in the words... | |
 | Samuel Bagster - 1848 - 548 sivua
...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." Its nouns, like the Greek, admit of three numbers (singular, dual, and plural), and of three genders... | |
 | Henry Welsford - 1848 - 498 sivua
...William Jones's elaborate eulogium, " that the Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure ; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more excellently refined than either." (Wilkins's Gramm. pages 36—39.) viII. The Sanskrit Pronouns are... | |
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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... 
