...acquaintance with those of other ancient and modern nations entitles his opinion to respect, to be " of a wonderful structure ; more perfect than the Greek,...Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either."* The language so highly commended seems always to have received the attention it deserved. Panini, the...

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...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...

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...century ago, he expressed himself thus : " The Sanskrit language, whatever may be its antiquity, is of wonderful structure ; more perfect than the Greek,...refined than either ; yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar, than could have been produced...

...of the learned in the following words : " The Sanscrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure, more perfect than the Greek,...refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs, and in the forms of grammar than could possibly have...

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

...Sir William Jones makes this remark : l " The Sanscrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more excellently refined than either." If we must take this with much allowance, still no one can receive...

...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." Its nouns, like the Greek, admit of three numbers (singular, dual, and plural), and of three genders...