| Thomas Maurice - 1800 - 492 pàgines
...given in thefe words. " The Sanfcreet language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful ftru&ure ; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquifitely refined than either, yet bearing to each of them a ftronger affinity, both in the jroots... | |
| Thomas Maurice - 1800 - 434 pàgines
...before, runs very naturally into Sapphics, Alcaics, and Iambics. Sir William repre'fents it as even more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquifitely refined than either, yet bearing to both fo. ftrong an affinity as to induce a conviction,... | |
| Asiatick Society (Calcutta, India) - 1801 - 580 pàgines
...prevailed in it. . . ; i • The Sanscrit language, whatever be its antiquity^ is of a wonderful ftrufture; more perfect than the Greek* more copious than the Latin, and more exquifitely refined than cither ; yet bearing to both of them a ftronger affinity, affinity, both in... | |
| 1830 - 622 pàgines
...Sir William Jones. ' The ' Sanscrit language,' he observes, ' whatever be its antiquity, is ' of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek,...Latin, and more exquisitely refined than « either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both ia ' the roots of verbs, and in the forms of... | |
| 1851 - 696 pàgines
...wonderful structure of the Sanskrit. He said, at once, ' that the old sacred language of India was 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 the verbs and in the forms... | |
| John Shore Baron Teignmouth - 1806 - 636 pàgines
...oilier kingdoms in some very remote age. The Sanscrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure ; more perfect than, the Greek,...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 form of grammar,... | |
| Thomas Maurice - 1806 - 402 pàgines
...children of Ham in Chaldaea-t " The Sanscreet language, he observes, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure ; more perfect than the Greek,...the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to each of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar,... | |
| Ossian - 1807 - 596 pàgines
...circumlocution.*- Sir William Jones tells us, f that " the Sanscrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure ; more perfect than the Greek,...the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either; yet bearing to both a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar, than... | |
| Sir William Jones - 1807 - 554 pàgines
...other kingdoms in some very remote age. The Sati;c;-k language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure ; more perfect than the Greek,...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 form of grammar,... | |
| William Jones - 1807 - 534 pàgines
...from other kingdoms in some very remote age. The Sanscrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek,...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 form of grammar,... | |
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