The Calcutta Review, Volumes 134-435University of Calcutta, 1912 |
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... languages . Sir William Jones , who announced that Sanskrit , Greek and Latin had all sprung from one com- mon source , characterised it to be of a wonderful struc- ture , more perfect than Greek , more copious than Latin and more ...
... languages . Sir William Jones , who announced that Sanskrit , Greek and Latin had all sprung from one com- mon source , characterised it to be of a wonderful struc- ture , more perfect than Greek , more copious than Latin and more ...
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... languages and dialects of India most of which are descended from Sanskrit , viz . , Prakrita , Pali , Singalese , Hindustani or Urdu , Bengali , Maharatti , Assamese , Sindhi , Gujrati , Nepali , Kashmiri , etc. Of these Bengali and ...
... languages and dialects of India most of which are descended from Sanskrit , viz . , Prakrita , Pali , Singalese , Hindustani or Urdu , Bengali , Maharatti , Assamese , Sindhi , Gujrati , Nepali , Kashmiri , etc. Of these Bengali and ...
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... language of the camp , is Hindi mixed with Arabic and Persian . It is , in fact , a lingua franca which grew up at the time of the Mahomedan invasion in the 11th century . As the ... language . As language is the 50 THE CALCUTTA REVIEW .
... language of the camp , is Hindi mixed with Arabic and Persian . It is , in fact , a lingua franca which grew up at the time of the Mahomedan invasion in the 11th century . As the ... language . As language is the 50 THE CALCUTTA REVIEW .
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translated into a foreign language . As language is the reflex of the mind , the various thoughts and ideas em- bodied in our idiomatic vernaculars would be forgotten or lost sight of if they were displaced by a foreign tongue . But ...
translated into a foreign language . As language is the reflex of the mind , the various thoughts and ideas em- bodied in our idiomatic vernaculars would be forgotten or lost sight of if they were displaced by a foreign tongue . But ...
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... in arranging and expressing our thoughts with accuracy and enables us to clothe our indistinct concep- tions in purer language and more elegant construction , a There are few subjects on which there exists wider ་་ THE CHARMS OF POETRY.
... in arranging and expressing our thoughts with accuracy and enables us to clothe our indistinct concep- tions in purer language and more elegant construction , a There are few subjects on which there exists wider ་་ THE CHARMS OF POETRY.
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