 | 1852 - 782 стор.
...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 - 1852 - 382 стор.
...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... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1852 - 584 стор.
...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... | |
 | Claude Marcel - 1853 - 458 стор.
...is peculiarly favourable for philological investigations. "This language," observes Sir W. Jones, " whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure...stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident ; so strong, indeed, that no philologist... | |
 | Maximilian Schele de Vere - 1853 - 448 стор.
...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... | |
 | Maximilian Schele de Vere - 1853 - 446 стор.
...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... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 452 стор.
...before the sera of historical record."2 " Whatever be its antiquity," says Sir William Jones, " it is of a wonderful structure, more perfect than the...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... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 452 стор.
...before the sera of historical record."2 " Whatever be its antiquity," says Sir William Jones, " it is of a wonderful structure, more perfect than the...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... | |
 | Peter Percival - 1854 - 582 стор.
...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... | |
 | Caleb Wright - 1854 - 364 стор.
...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... | |
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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... 
