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" ... 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 of verbs and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong indeed,... "
The National Review - Page 374
1861
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New Englander and Yale Review, Volume 16

Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1858 - 972 pages
...announce to the Eunv pean world the connection of the Arian languages one with another, saying that "no philologer could examine the Sanskrit, Greek and...is a similar reason, though not quite so forcible, forsnpposing that both the Gothic and Celtic had the same orijia with the Sanskrit. The old Persian...
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National Review, Volume 13

1861 - 516 pages
...success to other languages; and so we are told "he even pointed out that the terminations of the throe genders in Greek os, e, on, are the same as the Sanskrit...and Latin without believing them to have sprung from gome common source, which perhaps no longer exists. There is a similar reason, though not quite so...
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Beeton's Dictionary of universal information; comprising a complete summary ...

Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1861 - 904 pages
...Even previous to the year 1794, the great orientalist Sir AVilliam Jones declared that no philosopher could examine the Sanskrit, Greek, and Latin, without believing them to have sprung from one common source ; and, says Max Müller, " as sore as the six Roman dialects point to an original...
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Modern Philology: Historical sketch of the Indo-European languages. History ...

Benjamin Woodbridge Dwight - 1865 - 386 pages
...announce to the European world the connection of the Arian languages one with another, saying, that "no philologer could examine the Sanskrit, Greek and Latin, without believing them to haye sprung from some common (source, which perhaps no longer exists. There is a similar reason, though...
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Macmillan's Magazine, Volume 19

1869 - 814 pages
...founded by Sir W. Jones ; and he announced the then startling conclusion, "that no philologer would examine the Sanskrit, Greek, and Latin without believing them to have sprung from some common source." But if Sir W. Jones be the Galileo of philology, Halhed was its Copernicus. As the editor of the code...
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Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaft und orientalischen Philologie in ...

Theodor Benfey - 1869 - 860 pages
...than could have beuu produced by accident; so strong that no philologer could examine all tho tree without believing them to have sprung from some common source which, perhaps, no longor exists. There is a similar reason, though not quite so forcible, for supposing that both the...
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On the Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish, Volume 1

Eugene O'Curry - 1873 - 692 pages
...these imporconneotlon . * . of Celtic tant words: "No philologer could examine the Sanskrit, •krit. Greek, and Latin, without believing them to have sprung...common source which perhaps no longer exists. There " Nenniui, c. viii., Ixvi. App. is a similar reason, though not quite so forcible, for supposing that...
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Introduction

Eugene O'Curry - 1873 - 692 pages
...ii • ini or Celtic tant words: "No pmlologer could examine the Sanskrit. with S»n- . f ° «krit. Greek, and Latin, without believing them to have sprung...common source which perhaps no longer exists. There " Nennitu, c. viii., \xri. App. 38 The Kev. W. Busil Jones also places ihe invasion of Cunedda towards...
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Introduction to the Science of Language, Volume 1

Archibald Henry Sayce - 1880 - 470 pages
...and Greek ; " and Sir William Jones,1 addressing the Asiatic Society at Calcutta in 1/86, states that "no philologer could examine the Sanskrit, Greek,...perhaps, no longer exists. There is a similar reason," he goes on to say, " though not quite so forcible, for supposing that both the Gothic and Celtic had...
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New Englander and Yale Review, Volume 40

Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1881 - 864 pages
...William Jones expressed himself in the following language : " No philologer could examine all the three [Sanskrit, Greek, and Latin] without believing them...have sprung from some common source which perhaps no *See Delbruck, Einleitung in das Zprachstudinm, p. 1. longer exists. There is a similar reason, though...
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