...оЬд!иф otS 23о(Е5Гргафе (forben, in ben ^eiligen S^riften bief« Soif et unb bercn ftrueture; 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...

...société?» Discours sur f inégalité des conditions. (3) The sanscrit language, whatever be its antiquhy, 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 affinhy, both in the roots...

...remarkable. The euloginm which its enthusiastic cultivator, Sir \V. Jones, passed on it — that it " is a wonderful structure, more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisаely refined than either — has received little, if any, deduction from subsequent and moro...

...oracle of Indian erudition." He introduced it to the notice of the learned in the following words : " The Sanscrit language, whatever be its antiquity,...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...

...William Jones, the pioneer and prince of British orientalists, has been amply vindicated : " The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful...than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a strong affinity." Colebrooke, whose...

...century ago, he expressed himself thus : " The Sanskrit language, whatever may be its antiquity, is of 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...

...in this subject leads every one directly to the Sanscrit Sir William Jones makes this remark : l " The Sanscrit language, whatever be its antiquity,...Latin, and more excellently refined than either." If we must take this with much allowance, still no one can receive the testimony of the patriarch of...

...threw light upon a language which he afterwards, according to his famous dictum, pronounced to be " of wonderful structure : more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either." Since that time an interest in this and in other oriental tongues...

...prima facie, this agrees very badly with Sir William Jones's elaborate eulogium, " that the Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful...Latin, and more excellently refined than either." (Wilkins's Gramm. pages 36—39.) viII. The Sanskrit Pronouns are as under, viz. Aham, L Vayan, we....

...meaning.J) pir William JonesNwhen he first became acquainted with the Sacred language of India, said, "The Sanscrit language, whatever be its antiquity,...than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a strong affinity;" and it would be difficult...