 | 1867 - 656 sider
...sacred books are written (Sanscrit) is of unfathomable antiquity, and, according to Sir William Jones, more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more excellently refined than either ; and, in, the judgment of the learned, capable of expressing every... | |
 | 1868 - 600 sider
...discourse, said : " The Sanscnt 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 and in the forms of grammar,... | |
 | Dominick M'Causland - 1868 - 352 sider
...the most complete and polished of all the languages of the earth. Sir William Jones describes it as " more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more refined than either." It ceased to be a living language about 400 BC ; but has been preserved in the... | |
 | Theodor Benfey - 1869 - 860 sider
...folgenbermafjen : 'The Sanscrit language whatever may 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 and in the forms of grammar,... | |
 | James Martin Peebles - 1869 - 398 sider
...and beauty of this language, Sir William further says : " The Sanscrit is of a wonderful ptructure, more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either." One of the profoundest thinkers of Chinese antiquity appeared in the person of Lao-tse, between six... | |
 | David Crystal, Hilary Crystal - 2000 - 604 sider
...Language, Preface 16:43 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, and in the forms of grammar,... | |
 | Eliot Weinberger - 2000 - 212 sider
...IndoEuropean Hr-language: 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 and in the forms of grammar,... | |
 | Homer - 2000 - 324 sider
...is a brief extract: 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 and in the forms of grammar,... | |
 | Peter France - 2000 - 692 sider
...discovery of Sanskrit [II.1.2], which Sir William Jones in 1796 declared to be 'of wonderful structure, more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either', the new discipline of comparative philology was born, which led to the conceptualization of the IndoEuropean... | |
 | R. S. Perinbanayagam - 2000 - 324 sider
...historical linguistics: The Sanskrit language, whatever may be its antiquity, is of 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 roots of verbs and in forms of grammar, than... | |
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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... 
