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... The Southern Review - Page 2121829Full view - About this book
| Asiatick Society (Calcutta, India) - Asia - 1801 - 580 pages
...Latin, and more exquifitely refined than cither ; yet bearing to both of them a ftronger affinity, affinity, both in the roots of verbs, and in the forms of grammar, than could poffibly have been produced by accident ; fo ftrong, indeed, that no philologer could examine them... | |
| 1851 - 696 pages
...refined than either — yet bearing to both of them a stronger ' affinity, both in the roots of the verbs and in the forms of ' grammar, than could possibly...three, without believing them to have sprung from some com' mon source, which, perhaps, no longer exists. There is a ' similar reason, though not quite so... | |
| 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...produced by accident ; so strong, indeed, ' that no philosopher could examine them all three, without be1 lieving them to have sprung from some common... | |
| Samuel Miller - Art, Modern - 1805 - 432 pages
...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...indeed, that no philologer could examine them all without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists. Thera... | |
| John Shore Baron Teignmouth - India - 1806 - 566 pages
...stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs, and in the form of grammar, than could possibly have bf en produced by accident; so strong indeed, that no philologer...not quite so forcible, for supposing that both the Gothick and Ccltick, though blended with a very different idiom, had the same origin with the Sanscrit... | |
| Thomas Maurice - India - 1806 - 402 pages
...more 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 indeed,... | |
| William Jones - 1807 - 534 pages
...either ; yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs, and in the form of grammar, than could possibly have been produced...not quite so forcible, for supposing that both the Gothick and Celtick,. though blended with a very different idiom, had the same origin with the Santer'rt;... | |
| John Shore Baron Teignmouth - Asianists - 1807 - 668 pages
...them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs, and in the form of grammar, than could poisilily have been produced by accident; so strong indeed,...not quite so forcible, for supposing that both the Got/tick and Celtick, though blended with a very different idiom, had the same origin with the Sanscrit... | |
| Ossian - 1807 - 596 pages
...Greek, 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...strong indeed that no philologer could examine them all without believing them to have come from one common source, which perhaps no longer exists. There is... | |
| Sir William Jones - 1807 - 554 pages
...either ; yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs, and in the form of grammar, than could possibly have been produced...without believing them to have sprung from some common ioiircc, which perhaps no longer exists. There is a similar reason, though not quite so forcible, for... | |
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