...afterwards, according to his famous dictum, pronounced to be " of wonderful structure : more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either." Since that time an interest in this and in other oriental tongues has spread rapidly over England,...

..."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 strong affinity;" and it would be difficult to characterise this language better than in the 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 strong affinity ;" and it would be difficult to characterise this language better than in the 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 strong affinity ;" and it would be difficult to characterise this language better than in the words...

...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." Its nouns, like the Greek, admit of three numbers (singular, dual, and plural), and of three genders...

...Pentateuch or the Prophets, and he confesses that the Sancrit language bears to the Greek and Latin a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and...produced by accident : so strong, indeed, that no philologist could examine them all three without believing them to have sprung from some common source,...

...William Jones found it, when he declared it to be " of a wonderful structure, more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either."* One only of the Vedas, the Sama Veda, has yet been translated into English. The translator, Dr. Stephenson,...

...formed." Sir William Jones says, " The Sanscrit language is a wonderful structure ; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely...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...

...the Sanskrit. He said, at once, ' that the old sacred language of India was more perfect than ' the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely...of them a stronger ' affinity, both in the roots of the verbs and in the forms of ' grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident ; ' so...

...works, vol. I. p. 26,) " whatever be its antiquity, is of wonderful structure ; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely...all three without believing them to have sprung from one common source, which perhaps no longer exists." The author of the Hindu Pantheon, London, 1834,...