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" ... names both for things and for actions; as it has happened in every country, that I can recollect, where the conquerors have not preserved their own tongue unmixed... "
The Works of Sir William Jones: With the Life of the Author - Page 33
by John Shore Baron Teignmouth - 1807
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Asiatic Researches, Volume 1

Asiatick Society (Calcutta, India) - 1801 - 580 pages
...and regimen of verbs, differed as widely from both thofe tongues, as Arabick differs from Persian, or German from Greek. Now the general effect of conqueft...actions; as it has happened in every country, that I can recolleft, where the conquerors have not preferved their own tongue unmixed with that of the natives,...
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Discourses delivered before the Asiatic society: and miscellaneous papers on ...

Sir William Jones - 1824 - 336 pages
...those tongues, as Arabic differs from Persian, or German from Greek. Now the general effect of conquest is to leave the current language of the conquered...altered, in its groundwork, but to blend with it a considerable number of exotic names bolh for things and for actions; as it has happened in every country,...
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Discourses Delivered Before the Asiatic Society: And Miscellaneous Papers ...

Sir William Jones - 1824 - 356 pages
...German from Greek. Now the general effect of conqnest is to leave the current language of the conqnered people unchanged, or very little altered, in its groundwork, but to blend with it a considerable Dumber of exotic names bolh for things and for actions; as it has happened in every country,...
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Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind, Volume 3

Dugald Stewart - 1827 - 414 pages
...tongues, as Arabic differs from Persian, or German from Greek. Now, the " general effect of conquest is to leave the current language of the conquered...altered in its ground-work, but to blend with it " a considerable number of exotic names, both for things and for actions ; as it " has happened in every...
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The Works of Dugald Stewart: Elements of the philosophy of the human mind ...

Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 524 pages
...tongues, as Arabic differs from Persian, or German from Greek. Now, the general effect of conquest is to leave the current language of the conquered...altered in its ground-work, but to blend with it a considerable number of exotic names, both for things and for actions ; as it has happened in every...
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Lectures on the Study of Language

Hanns Oertel - 1901 - 370 pages
...German from Greek. Now the general effect of conquest is to leave the current language of the conqucred people unchanged, or very little altered in its groundwork, but to blend with it a considerable number of exotick names both for things and for actions ; as it has happened in every...
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“The” Collected Works of Sir William Jones, Volume 3

William Jones - 1993 - 474 pages
...and regimen of verbs, differed as widely from both thofe tongues, as Arabick differs from Perfian, or German from Greek. Now the general effect of conqueft...; as it has happened in every country, that I can recolletl, where the conquerors have not preferved their own tongue unmixed with that of the natives,...
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Sprachtheorien der Neuzeit, Volume 2

Peter Schmitter - 1996 - 510 pages
...tongues, äs Arabic differs from Persian, or German from Greek. Now the general effect of conquest is to leave the current language of the conquered...altered, in its groundwork, but to blend with it a considerable number of exotic names both for things and for actions; äs it has happened in every country,...
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Representing India: Indian Culture and Imperial Control in ..., Volume 1

Michael J. Franklin - 2000 - 580 pages
...and regimen of verbs, differed as widely from both thefe tongues, as Arabick differs from Per/tan, or German from Greek. Now the general effect of conqueft...; as it has happened in every country, that I can recollect, where the conquerors have not preferved their own tongue unmixed with that of the natives,...
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