...people. The Sanscrit is a highly polished language. Sir William Jones says : — " It is a language of wonderful structure, more perfect than the Greek,...Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either." Halhed says : — "As a language it is very copious and nervous, and far exceeds the Greek and Arabic...

...mother of the present languages of India, namely, the Hindostanee, the Bengalee, the Pali-Mahratta, &c. Sir William Jones says, " The Sanscrit language is...of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of the verbs and in the forms of grammar, than could have been produced by any accident ; so strong, indeed,...

...contemplated by Sir William Jones as probable. He said, " that the old sacred language of India was more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the...more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to each of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of the verbs, and in the forms of the Grammar,...

...directly from the venerable language of the Vedas and Shasters, a language ' more perfect in construction than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either ' ? This fact alone determines the origin of the Gipsies ; for, as Dr. Johnson remarks: 'The similitude...

...researches,) " The Sanscrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of wonderful structure ; it is more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either." These hints, whfch are intended to be continued, will serve to show that a society for inquiring into...

...after the first glance at Sanskrit, declared that whatever its antiquity, it was a language of most wonderful structure, more perfect than the Greek,...refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a strong affinity. " No philologer," he writes, " could examine the Sanskrit, Greek, and Latin, without...

...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." It is, in short, the most perfect and most beautiful language in existence. Its nouns, like the Greek,...

...after the first glance at Sanskrit, declared that whatever its antiquity, it was a language of most wonderful structure, more perfect than the Greek,...refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a strong affinity. " No philologer," he writes, " could examine the Sanskrit, Greek, and Latin, without...

...laws, their great poetical and philosophical works ; — " a language (in the words of Sir W. Jones) of wonderful structure ; more perfect than the Greek,...Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either." The Bengalee, which has character, though little or no literature, entirely its own, is but little...

...the language in which that literature is embodied. The Sanskrit language is styled by Sir W. Jones " a wonderful structure ; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more excellently refined than either." Numberless are the grammars, dictionaries, and treatises on rhetoric,...