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,... Works - Page 30by Sir William Jones - 1807Full view - About this book
| Thomas Maurice - 1800 - 492 pages
...exquifitely refined than either, yet bearing to each of them a ftronger affinity, both in the jroots of verbs and in the forms of grammar, than could poffibly...been produced by accident ; fo ftrong indeed, that no philoioger could examine them all three without be.lieving them to have fprung from fome common fburce,... | |
| 1830 - 622 pages
...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 grammar, than could ' possibly have been produced by accident ; so strong, indeed, ' that no philosopher could examine... | |
| Thomas Maurice - 1806 - 402 pages
...copious than 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, than could possibly have * See Analysis of Ancient Mythology, yol. iii. p. 30. been produced by accident; so strong... | |
| Ossian - 1807 - 596 pages
...more copious than 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 could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong indeed that no philologer could examine them all... | |
| William Nicholson - 1809 - 716 pages
...Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more refined i iun either, yet bearing to both a .stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs, and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident. Of their philosophy it has been observed, that in the more... | |
| 1811 - 560 pages
...the Calcutta edition, vol. ip 422.] ' Now the Sanscrit bears to the Greek and the Latin a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar, than could have been produced by accident; so strong that no philologer could examine all the three, without believing... | |
| Ezra Sampson - 1813 - 434 pages
...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, that no philologer could examine them... | |
| Ezra Sampson - 1816 - 432 pages
...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, that no philologer could examine them... | |
| Quintin Craufurd - 1817 - 758 pages
...copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a strong affinity both in the roots of verbs, and in the forms of grammar." — In his preface to the translation of the Sanscrit drama, named Sacontala, or the Fatal Ring, by... | |
| Charles O'Conor - 1819 - 624 pages
...Halhead. " The Sanscrit language, whatever be its antiquity, bears to the Greek and Latin " 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, that no philologer could examine them... | |
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