... no philologer could examine the Sanskrit, Greek, and Latin, without believing them to have been sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists. The Universal Instructor, Or, Self-culture for All. [With Illustrations and ... - Seite 45von Ward, Lock and co, ltd - 1884Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Elihu Burritt - 1876 - 112 Seiten
...adopted and acted upon by all scholars who have written upon the language since his day : ' No philologer could examine the Sanskrit, Greek, and Latin without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists. There is a similar reason, though... | |
| Archibald Henry Sayce - 1880 - 496 Seiten
...Sir William Jones,1 addressing the Asiatic Society at Calcutta in 1786, states that "no philologer could examine the Sanskrit, Greek, and Latin, without believing them to have sprung from some common source which, perhaps, no longer exists. There is a similar reason," he goes... | |
| Lucy Toulmin Smith - 1885 - 200 Seiten
...an impetus from the discovery, at the close of the last century, that Sanskrit, the ancient language of the Hindus, which had even ceased to be spoken...Sanskrit, Greek, and Latin, without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists." It was found further that the Persian,... | |
| Friedrich Max Müller - 1891 - 636 Seiten
...exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a strong affinity. ' No philologer,' he writes, 'could examine the Sanskrit, Greek, and Latin, without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists. There is a similar reason, though... | |
| 1897 - 898 Seiten
...gn mmatical forms, struck every one with surprise. Sir William Jones declared that ' no philologer could examine the Sanskrit, Greek, and Latin without believing them to have sprung from the same source, which perhaps no longer exists. There is a similar reason, though not... | |
| Chandler Belden Beach, Graeme Mercer Adam - 1901 - 892 Seiten
...traced to a common origin. Sir William Jones, the great oriental linguist, declared that "no philologer could examine the Sanskrit, Greek, and Latin without believing them to have sprung from the same source, which, perhaps, no longer exists. There is a similar reason, though not... | |
| John Edwin Sandys - 1903 - 750 Seiten
...of the language ". We may also recall the memorable words of Sir William Jones : — ' No philologer could examine the Sanskrit, Greek, and Latin without believing them to have sprung from some common source '4. ' Philologer' is hardly ever used in any wider sense ; even in the... | |
| Catholic University of America - 1907 - 688 Seiten
...founder of the Royal Asiatic Society, Sir Wm. Henry Jones to write in 1786 as follows: "No philologer could examine the Sanskrit, Greek, and Latin without believing them to have sprung from the same source, which perhaps no longer exists. There is a similar reason, though not... | |
| Harry Thurston Peck - 1911 - 532 Seiten
...and in the forms of grammar, than could have been produced by accident ; so strong that no philologer could examine the Sanskrit, Greek, and Latin, without believing them to have been sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists. There is a similar reason, though... | |
| Frederick J. Newmeyer - 1988 - 179 Seiten
...and in the forms of grammar, than could have been produced by accident; so strong that no philologer could examine the Sanskrit, Greek, and Latin, without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists. There is a similar reason, though... | |
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