 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
 | Berthold Delbrück - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1882 - 168 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 in the forms of grammar, than could have been produced by accident ; so strong that no philologer could examine all the three without believing... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1884 - 804 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 in the forms of grammar, than could have been produced by any accident; so strong, indeed, that the philologer could not examine them all... | |
 | F. Garcia Ayuso - Philology - 1884 - 462 pages
...Voici comment il s'exprime à ce sujet : Xo philoloyer could examine ail the three, wilhout belieuing them to have sprung from some common source which perhaps no longer exists. e Nul philologue ne pourrait examiner les trois langues sans croire qu'elles sont issuesd'une souche... | |
 | Lucy Toulmin Smith - English language - 1885 - 200 pages
...language. "'But no philologer," wrote Sir William Jones, " could examine the Sanskrit, Greek, and Latin, without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists." It was found further that the Persian, Gothic, German, and other languages, had many points in common... | |
 | Federico Garlanda - Comparative linguistics - 1886 - 314 pages
...bearing to both of them a strong affinity. No philologist would examine the Sanskrit, Greek, and Latin without believing them to have sprung from some common...so forcible, for supposing that both the Gothic and Celtic had the same origin with Sanskrit. The Old Persian may be added to the same family." These were... | |
 | Archaeology - 1887 - 690 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...all three without believing them to have sprung from one common source, which perhaps no longer exists." * The writer's acquaintance with the Sanskrit and... | |
 | Wales - 1887 - 284 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 in the forms of grammar, than could have been produced by accident; so strong, that no philologer could examine all the three without believing... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - Comparative linguistics - 1891 - 636 pages
...them a strong affinity. ' No philologer,' he writes, 'could examine the Sanskrit, Greek, and Latin, without believing them to have sprung from some common...so forcible, for supposing that both the Gothic and Celtic had the same origin with the Sanskrit. The old Persian may be added to the same family.' x But... | |
 | Chandler Belden Beach - 1893 - 820 pages
...philologer could examine the Sanscrit, GreeK and Latin without believing them to have sprung from the same source, which, perhaps, no longer exists. The.re is...similar reason, though not quite so forcible, for believing that both the Gothic and the Celtic had the same origin with the Sanscrit." There are two... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1897 - 898 pages
...philologer could examine the Sanskrit, Greek, and Latin without believing them to have sprung from the same source, which perhaps no longer exists. There is a...for supposing that both the Gothic and the Celtic had the same origin with the Sanskrit. The old Persian maybe added to the same family.' Rather than... | |
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