 | Friedrich Max Müller - Comparative linguistics - 1862 - 454 pages
...after the first glance at Sanskrit, declared that whatever its antiquity, it was a language of most wonderful structure, more perfect than the Greek,...the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a strong affinity. " No philologer," he writes, " could examine the Sanskrit,... | |
 | Charles Wallwyn Radcliffe Cooke - 1864 - 98 pages
...language in which 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,... | |
 | John Laws Milton - 1864 - 668 pages
...the very first, to find the key to this mystery in the Sanskrit, to observe that it was a Ianguage of wonderful structure, more perfect than the greek, more copious than the latin, more exquisitely refined than either, and that it was impossible to compare the three without arriving... | |
 | Sir Edward Robert Sullivan - India - 1866 - 558 pages
...scholars will illustrate the beauty of the Sanscrit : — Sir William Jones describes it as " a language of wonderful structure ; more perfect than the Greek,...Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either." Professor Wilson says that " the music of Sanscrit composition must ever be inadequately represented... | |
 | Dadabhai Naoroji - Indigenous peoples - 1866 - 58 pages
...universal attraction.} With regard to the Sanscrit language, he says, whatever be its antiquity, it is of wonderful structure, more perfect than the Greek,...the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either. § With all the above opinions of Sir W. Jones Dr. T. Goldstucker concurs. Horace Wilson thinks it... | |
 | English literature - 1866 - 604 pages
...Sanserit language, whatever be its * ' Lectures,' lit Series, p. 139. antiquity, antiquity, is of a wonderful structure ; more perfect than the Greek,...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,... | |
 | English literature - 1866 - 586 pages
...founders. 'The Sanscrit language, whatever be its * 'Lectures,' 1st Series. p. 139. antiquity, is of a wonderful structure ; more perfect than the Greek,...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,... | |
 | Mountstuart Elphinstone - India - 1866 - 866 pages
...with those of other ancient and Sanscrit. modern nations entitles his opinion to respect, to be " of a wonderful structure ; more perfect than the Greek,...than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either."1 The language so highly commended seems always to have received the attention it deserved.... | |
 | English literature - 1866 - 582 pages
...founders. 'The Sanscrit 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
...of the learned in the following words : " The Sanscrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure, more perfect than the Greek,...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... | |
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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... 
