 | Friedrich Max Müller - Comparative linguistics - 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 Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a strong affinity. " No philologer," he... | |
 | Colesworthey Grant - Anglo-Indians - 1862 - 222 pages
...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,... | |
 | Charles Wallwyn Radcliffe Cooke - 1864 - 98 pages
...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,... | |
 | English literature - 1866 - 586 pages
...language, whatever be its * 'Lectures,' 1st Series. p. 139. 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... | |
 | Sir Edward Robert Sullivan - India - 1866 - 558 pages
...beauty of the Sanscrit : — Sir William Jones describes it as " a language of wonderful structure ; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either." Professor Wilson says that " the music of Sanscrit composition must... | |
 | English literature - 1866 - 604 pages
...whatever be its * ' Lectures,' lit Series, p. 139. antiquity, 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... | |
 | Dadabhai Naoroji - Indigenous peoples - 1866 - 58 pages
...regard to the Sanscrit language, he says, whatever be its antiquity, it is of wonderful structure, more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either. § With all the above opinions of Sir W. Jones Dr. T. Goldstucker... | |
 | English literature - 1866 - 582 pages
...language, whatever be its * ' Lectures,' 1st Series, p. 139. antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitelv refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots... | |
 | Bible - 1867 - 824 pages
...following words : " 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... | |
 | Dominick M'Causland - Babel, Tower of - 1867 - 56 pages
...introduction of it to the notice of the Asiatic Society in 1782, describes it as of a wonderful structure, ' more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than ca either.' When this ancient language came in view, and was submitted to... | |
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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... 
