Lectures on the Science of Language Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain ... 1861 [and 1863].C. Scribner andcompany, 1866 |
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... Brahmans , a ter- minology in some respects more perfect than that of Alexandria and Rome , we may now hear such words - as case , and gender , and active and passive , explained by European teachers to their native pupils . The fates ...
... Brahmans , a ter- minology in some respects more perfect than that of Alexandria and Rome , we may now hear such words - as case , and gender , and active and passive , explained by European teachers to their native pupils . The fates ...
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... Brahmans . The differences be- tween the dialect of these sacred hymns and the liter- ary Sanskrit of later ages were noted and preserved with a religious care . We still possess the first essays in the grammatical science of the Brahmans ...
... Brahmans . The differences be- tween the dialect of these sacred hymns and the liter- ary Sanskrit of later ages were noted and preserved with a religious care . We still possess the first essays in the grammatical science of the Brahmans ...
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... . During all this time , however , Sanskrit continued as the literary language of the 1 The Singhalese call Pali , Mungata ; the Burmese , Magadabâsâ . Brahmans . Like Latin , it did not die in 146 DISCOVERY OF SANSKRIT .
... . During all this time , however , Sanskrit continued as the literary language of the 1 The Singhalese call Pali , Mungata ; the Burmese , Magadabâsâ . Brahmans . Like Latin , it did not die in 146 DISCOVERY OF SANSKRIT .
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... Brahman would write with greater fluency in Sanskrit than in Bengálí . Sanskrit was what Greek was at Alexandria , what Latin was during the Middle Ages . It was the classical and at the same time the sacred language of the Brahmans ...
... Brahman would write with greater fluency in Sanskrit than in Bengálí . Sanskrit was what Greek was at Alexandria , what Latin was during the Middle Ages . It was the classical and at the same time the sacred language of the Brahmans ...
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... Brahmans and fire worshippers to his court , and ordered them to discuss in his presence the merits of their religions with the Muhammedan doctors . When he heard of the Jesuits at Goa , he invited them to his capital , and he was for ...
... Brahmans and fire worshippers to his court , and ordered them to discuss in his presence the merits of their religions with the Muhammedan doctors . When he heard of the Jesuits at Goa , he invited them to his capital , and he was for ...
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