 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1848
...with the Sacred language of India, said, "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 strong affinity ;" and it would be difficult to characterise this language... | |
 | 1848
...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." Its nouns, like the Greek, admit of three numbers (singular, dual, and plural), and of three genders... | |
 | Henry Welsford - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1848 - 431 pages
...William Jones's elaborate eulogium, " that the Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure ; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more excellently refined than either." (Wilkins's Gramm. pages 36—39.) viII. The Sanskrit Pronouns are... | |
 | Robert Montgomery Martin, London Printing and Publishing Company - 185?
...language in the polished form in which Sir William Jones found it, when he declared it to be " of a wonderful structure, more perfect than the Greek,...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,... | |
 | Ernest Frederick Fiske - 1849
...reference to the language in which those books are written ; which has been pronounced to be "of a wonderful structure ; more perfect than the Greek,...than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either1." Sanscrit is still carefully cultivated; and, though it has long been a dead language, the... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1851 - 659 pages
...entitled to the appellation " completely formed." Sir William Jones says, " The Sanscrit language is 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,... | |
| Comparative philology - 1851
...wonderful structure of 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 'refined than either — yet bearing to both of them a stronger ' affinity, both in the roots of the verbs and in the forms... | |
 | 1852 - 286 pages
...language," to quote from Sir William Jones, (vide his works, vol. I. p. 26,) " whatever be its antiquity, is of 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,... | |
 | History - 1852
...Colebrooke, Carey, and Wilkins, by their successive labours, disclosed the hidden stores of a language " more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either." But though these great pioneers had thus cleared the path, like the ascent to the temple of Virtue... | |
 | Caleb Wright, Alexander Duff, John James Weitbrecht, John Statham - History - 1852 - 304 pages
...than three thousand years ; it is written in Sanscrit, a dead language of a " wonderful construction —more perfect than the Greek, more copious than...Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either." It is a portion of the Holy Vedas. In a peculiar tone of voice, he chants the sacred text, stopping... | |
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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... 
