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" The Sanskrit 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 British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent Divines ... - Page 398
by Francis Wrangham - 1816
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India, Ancient and Modern, Geographical, Historical, Political, Social, and ...

David Oliver Allen - 1856 - 646 pages
...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...
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English Grammar: The English Language in Its Elements and Forms. With a ...

William Chauncey Fowler - 1858 - 424 pages
...Bengalee, the Pali-Mahratta, &c. Sir William Jones says, " The Sanscrit language is a wonderful structure ; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the...of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of the verbs and in the forms of grammar, than could have been produced by any accident ; so strong, indeed,...
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Encyclopædia metropolitana; or, System of universal knowledge, Volume 38

Encyclopaedia - 1858 - 412 pages
...contemplated by Sir William Jones as probable. He said, " that the old sacred language of India was more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the...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,...
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 51

Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1858 - 690 pages
...directly from the venerable language of the Vedas and Shasters, a language ' more perfect in construction than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either ' ? This fact alone determines the origin of the Gipsies ; for, as Dr. Johnson remarks: 'The similitude...
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The Theological Works

Thomas Paine - 1859 - 618 pages
...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...
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Lectures on the Science of Language, Delivered at the Royal ..., Volume 1

Friedrich Max Müller - 1861 - 434 pages
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Lectures on the science of language delivered at the Royal ..., Volume 2

Friedrich Max Müller - 1861 - 422 pages
...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...
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The Bible of Every Land: A History of the Sacred Scriptures in Every ...

1860 - 612 pages
...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,...
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Lectures on the Science of Language: Delivered at the Royal ..., Volume 1

Friedrich Max Müller - 1862 - 454 pages
...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...
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