 | Michael J. Franklin - Deccan (India) - 2000 - 580 pages
...'Third Anniversary Discourse' to the Asiatick Society, which contains the following famous passage: The Sanscrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than ihe Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both... | |
 | Li Jin, Mark Seielstad, Chunjie Xiao - History - 2001 - 196 pages
...locate the homeland of speakers of ancient languages. 3. To date splits among languages. "The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful...exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a strong affinity, both in the roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly... | |
 | Edwin Bryant - Electronic books - 2001 - 400 pages
...quotation, has by now become the mangaldcdra of comparative philology: The Sanskrit language, whatever may be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; 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 possibly... | |
 | Thomas Burrow - Foreign Language Study - 2001 - 486 pages
...outlines the significance of the new discovery : ' The Sanscrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of wonderful structure ; more perfect than the Greek,...exquisitely refined than either ; yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity both in the roots of verbs and the forms of grammar, than could possibly... | |
 | Aniket Jaaware - Linguistics in literature - 2001 - 576 pages
...Bengal Asiatic Society, Calcutta, in 1786: The Sanskrit language, whatever may be its antiquity, is of wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek,...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... | |
 | Stuart Peterfreund - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 432 pages
...Rickman (Letters, 1:344). From Jones's "Third Anniversary Discourse" (1786), Shelley would have known that "The Sanscrit language, whatever be its antiquity,...exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity . . . than could possibly have been produced by accident." And Shelley... | |
 | Terry Crowley - Foreign Language Study - 2002 - 308 pages
...Indo-European tthough without that name) and the related idea of language families back in l786: The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful...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 possibly... | |
 | Kirsten Malmkjær - Foreign Language Study - 2002 - 696 pages
...the same origin, which perhaps no longer existed. In his words (in Lehmann 1967: 15): The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful...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 possibly... | |
 | Jonathan D. Hill, Fernando Santos-Granero - Social Science - 2002 - 360 pages
...English. The often-quoted observation states that "The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity is of wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek,...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 possibly... | |
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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... 
