...language, whatever be its * 'Lectures,' 1st Series. p. 139. antiquity, is of a wonderful structure ; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the...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 philologer...

...beauty of the Sanscrit : — Sir William Jones describes it as " a language of wonderful structure ; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either." Professor Wilson says that " the music of Sanscrit composition must ever be inadequately represented...

...regard to the Sanscrit language, he says, whatever be its antiquity, it is of wonderful structure, more perfect than the Greek, more copious than 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...

...ancient and Sanscrit. modem nations entitles his opinion to respect, to be " of a wonderful structure ; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either."1 The language so highly commended seems always to have received the attention it deserved....

...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...

...Sanskrit texts of India (newly "discovered" by European scholars) bore to Classical Greek and Latin "a 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 philologer...

...comparative philology: The Sanskrit language, whatever may be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the...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 philologer...

...Calcutta, in 1786: The Sanskrit language, whatever may be its antiquity, is of wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the...stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar, than could have been produced by accident; so strong that no philologer could examine...

...Jones made in 1786: "The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure: more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the...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 philologer...

...the new discovery : ' The Sanscrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of wonderful structure ; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the...a stronger affinity both in the roots of verbs and the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident ; so strong indeed that no...