| David Oliver Allen - 1856 - 646 páginas
...a highly polished language. Sir William Jones says : — " It is a language of wonderful structure, more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either." Halhed says : — "As a language it is very copious and nervous, and far exceeds the Greek and Arabic... | |
| DAVID O.. ALLEN, D. D. - 1856 - 636 páginas
...a highly polished language. Sir William Jones says : — " It is a language of wonderful structure, more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either." Halhed says : — "As a language it is very copious and nervous, and far exceeds the Greek and Arabic... | |
| Encyclopaedia - 1858 - 412 páginas
...well in Europe as in Asia. This was long ago contemplated by Sir William Jones as probable. He said, " that the old sacred language of India was more perfect...more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to each of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of the verbs, and in the forms of the Grammar,... | |
| Thomas Paine - 1859 - 618 páginas
...researches,) " The Sanscrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of wonderful structure ; it is more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either." These hints, whfch are intended to be continued, will serve to show that a society for inquiring into... | |
| Friedrich Max Müller - 1861 - 422 páginas
...glance at Sanskrit, declared that whatever its antiquity, it was a language of most wonderful structure, more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the...refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a strong affinity. " No philologer," he writes, " could examine the Sanskrit, Greek, and Latin, without... | |
| 1860 - 612 páginas
...with the two learned languages of Europe, attested its superiority over both, for it is, as he said, " more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either." It is, in short, the most perfect and most beautiful language in existence. Its nouns, like the Greek,... | |
| Friedrich Max Müller - 1862 - 454 páginas
...glance at Sanskrit, declared that whatever its antiquity, it was a language of most wonderful structure, more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the...refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a strong affinity. " No philologer," he writes, " could examine the Sanskrit, Greek, and Latin, without... | |
| Colesworthey Grant - 1862 - 222 páginas
...and philosophical works ; — " a language (in the words of Sir W. Jones) of wonderful structure ; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either." The Bengalee, which has character, though little or no literature, entirely its own, is but little... | |
| Charles Wallwyn Radcliffe Cooke - 1864 - 98 páginas
...that literature is embodied. The Sanskrit language is styled by Sir W. Jones " a wonderful structure ; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more excellently refined than either." Numberless are the grammars, dictionaries, and treatises on rhetoric,... | |
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