...Colebrooke, Carey, and Wilkins, by their successive labours, disclosed the bidden stores of a language " more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either." Bat though these great pioneers had thus cleared the path, like the ascent to the temple of Virtue...

...advocate of Sanscrit Literature, whose opinion of that language is given in his assertion that it was "more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more excellently refined than either," Professor Wilson and Dr. Milman have given various specimens of the...

...philological investigations. "This language," observes Sir W. Jones, " 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,...

...pronounced by one well fitted to form an opinion,2 the most finished of all the dead languages, " of a wonderful structure, more perfect than the Greek,...Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either." In this language is to be found an infinity of works upon almost every branch of learning known amongst...

...understanding, and unveil the real origin, character, and meaning. Already Sir W. Jones thought the Sanscrit more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either. Mr. Brian Hodgson, a competent and impartial judge, called it a speech capable of giving a soul to...

...understanding, and unveil the real origin, character, and meaning. Already Sir W. Jones thought the Sanscrit more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either. Mr. Brian Hodgson, a competent and impartial judge, called it a speech capable of giving a soul to...

...etymology." Sir William Jones's enraptured mind thus embodied its impressions : " It is a language of wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek,...Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either." Talboys applies to Sanscrit the praise bestowed on Greek by Gibbon. " It is," says he, " a musical...

...the sera of historical record."2 " Whatever be its antiquity," says Sir William Jones, " it is of a wonderful structure, more perfect than the Greek,...than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either,3 yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both from both those tongues, as Arabic religion...

...the aera of historical record."2 " Whatever be its antiquity," says Sir William Jones, " it is of a wonderful structure, more perfect than the Greek,...than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either,3 yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both from both those tongues, as Arabic religion...

...three thousand yejirs ; it is written in Sanscrit, a dead language of a " wonderful construction — more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the 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...