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Hindustani is not the daughter of Sanskrit , as we find it in the Vedas , or in the
later literature of the Brahmans : it is a branch of the living speech of India ,
springing from the same stein from which Sanskrit sprang , when it first assumed
its ...
Hindustani is not the daughter of Sanskrit , as we find it in the Vedas , or in the
later literature of the Brahmans : it is a branch of the living speech of India ,
springing from the same stein from which Sanskrit sprang , when it first assumed
its ...
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... theories about the mysterious nature of speech , and cares as little for facts as
the man who wrote an account of the camel without ever having seen the animal
or the desert . The , Brahmans , in the hymns of the Veda , raised language to the
...
... theories about the mysterious nature of speech , and cares as little for facts as
the man who wrote an account of the camel without ever having seen the animal
or the desert . The , Brahmans , in the hymns of the Veda , raised language to the
...
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cow , breath the bull , and their young is said to be the mind of man.1 Brahman ,
the highest being , is said to be known through speech , nay , speech herself is
called the Supreme Brahman . At a very early period , however , the Brahmans ...
cow , breath the bull , and their young is said to be the mind of man.1 Brahman ,
the highest being , is said to be known through speech , nay , speech herself is
called the Supreme Brahman . At a very early period , however , the Brahmans ...
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The expedition of Alexander contributed still more powerfully to a knowledge of
other nations and languages . But when Alexander went to converse with the
Brahmans , who were even then considered by the Greeks as the guardians of a
...
The expedition of Alexander contributed still more powerfully to a knowledge of
other nations and languages . But when Alexander went to converse with the
Brahmans , who were even then considered by the Greeks as the guardians of a
...
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The opinion of D. Stewart and Niebuhr that the Indian philosophers borrowed
from the Greeks , and that of Görres and others that the Greeks borrowed from the
Brahmans , are examined in my i Essay on Indian Logic , in Thomson's Laws of ...
The opinion of D. Stewart and Niebuhr that the Indian philosophers borrowed
from the Greeks , and that of Görres and others that the Greeks borrowed from the
Brahmans , are examined in my i Essay on Indian Logic , in Thomson's Laws of ...
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| Title | Lectures on the Science of Language Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain ...1861 [and 1863], Volume 1 Lectures on the Science of Language Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain ...1861 [and 1863], Friedrich Max Müller |
| Author | Friedrich Max Müller |
| Publisher | C. Scribner, 1866 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | 12 Nov 2009 |
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