 ... 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 - Pàgina 3741861Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | R. S. Perinbanayagam - 2000 - 324 pàgines
...than could have been produced by accident; so strong that no philologer could examine all the three without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps no longer exists, (quoted in Mallory 1989: 12) Once the affinity between the languages of Europe and certain languages... | |
 | Michael J. Franklin - 2000 - 580 pàgines
...have been produced by accident; so strong, indeed, thai no philologer could examine them all three without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists. . . . (1.422-23) Jones was making an imaginative scientific leap which effectively marks the beginning... | |
 | Elizabeth Wayland Barber - 2000 - 262 pàgines
...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." He then added the Germanic and Celtic language families to his list of presumed kin. This was a major... | |
 | David Crystal, Hilary Crystal - 2000 - 604 pàgines
...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. Sir William Jones, 2 February 1786, The Third Anniversary Discourse, on the Hindus', Presidential Address... | |
 | Joseph Twadell Shipley - 2001 - 688 pàgines
...shall know them. Sir William Jones (1745-1794), while a judge in Calcutta, declared: "No philologer can examine the Sanskrit, Greek, and Latin, without believing...common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists." He was right: the original speech, the primal Indo-European from which a hundred languages have flowered,... | |
 | Richard M. Hogg, Norman Francis Blake, Suzanne Romaine, Roger Lass, R. W. Burchfield - 1992 - 828 pàgines
...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'. Jones also supposed that Gothic, Celtic, and Persian belonged to the same family. On the Continent,... | |
 | Edo Nyland - 2001 - 576 pàgines
...possibly have been produced by accident; so strong, indeed, that nophilologer could examine them all without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists. " The "perfect" phonological relationships between the examples he gave was there for everyone to see... | |
 | Aniket Jaaware - 2001 - 576 pàgines
...than could have been produced by accident; so strong that no philologer could examine all the three without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which perhaps no longer exists.6 The second is from Friedrich Schlegel (1772-1829), from a book on India that he published... | |
 | Joseph Farrell - 2001 - 170 pàgines
...among Greek, Latin, and Sanskrit was "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."22 He further opined that Gothic, Celtic, and Persian belonged to the same "family" of languages.... | |
 | Kirsten Malmkjær - 2002 - 696 pàgines
...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: there is a reason, though not quite so forcible, for supposing that both the Gothic and the Celtic, though blended... | |
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