... 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, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong indeed,... The National Review - Pągina 3741861Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| Samuel Miller - 1805 - 432 pągines
...possibly have been produced by accident; so strong, indeed, that no philologer could examine them all without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists. Thera is similar reason, though not quite so forcible, for supposing that both the Gothic and the Celtic,... | |
| 1819 - 496 pągines
...anniversary discourse declares, respecting the languages, " that no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them to have' sprung from some common source, which perhaps no longer exists." The Sanskrita was most probably the more ancient of the three, and as the Latin is but the ^Eolic dialect... | |
| Ezra Sampson - 1813 - 434 pągines
...possibly have been produced by accident ; so strong, indeed, that no philologer could examine them all, without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists." SARACENS, a people celebrated some centuries ago, who came from the deserts of Arabia. They proceeded... | |
| Ezra Sampson - 1816 - 432 pągines
...possibly have been produced by accident ; so strong, indeed, that no philologer could examine them all, without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists." SARACENS, a people celebrated some centuries ago, who came from the desarts of Arabia. They proceeded... | |
| Charles O'Conor - 1819 - 624 pągines
...have been produced by accident ; so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all " three, without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, DO " longer exists. There is a similar reason, though not quite so forcible, for supposing that both... | |
| George Oliver - 1823 - 406 pągines
...Jones, " bear so great a resemblance to each other, that no philologer could examine them all three without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which perhaps no longer exists."* * Asiat. Researches, vol. i. After the invention of letters, it would not be long before the difference... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1827 - 414 pągines
...been produced by accident ; so strong, " indeed, that no philosopher could examine them all three, *' without believing them to have sprung from some common " source which perhaps no longer exists, "t The only possible supposition, I apprehend, on which all this can be explained, is, that Sanscrit... | |
| Vans Kennedy - 1828 - 348 pągines
...have been produced by accident ; so strong, indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists." * It is, therefore, the structure of Sanscrit which so peculiarly distinguishes it from other languages,... | |
| 1828 - 602 pągines
...concord and government. No philologist acquainted with both languages, Sir W. Jones says, could help believing them ' to have sprung from ' some common source, which perhaps no longer exists.' It is not, however, in the language itself, so much as in the artificial forms and rules of its structure... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 524 pągines
...have been produced by accident ; so strong, indeed, that no philosopher could examine them' all three, without believing them to have sprung from some common source which perhaps no -longer exists." f The only possible supposition, I apprehend, on which all this can be explained, is, that Sanscrit... | |
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