 ... 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,...  New Englander and Yale Review - Page 472edited by - 1858Full view - About this book
 | 1851 - 696 pages
...philologer could examine them all ' three, without believing them to have sprung from some com' mon source, which, perhaps, no longer exists. There is...forcible, for supposing that ' both the Gothic and the Celtic, though blended with a very ' different idiom, had the same origin with the Sanskrit. '... | |
 | Samuel Miller - Art, Modern - 1805 - 432 pages
...possibly have been produced by accident; so strong, indeed, that no philologer could examine them all without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists. Thera is similar reason, though not quite so forcible, for supposing that both the Gothic and the Celtic,... | |
 | Thomas Maurice - India - 1806 - 402 pages
...p. 30. been produced by accident; so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three without believing them to have sprung from some common...forcible, for supposing that both the Gothic and Celtic, though blended with a very different idiom, had the same origin with the Sanscreet ; and the old Persian... | |
 | William Jones - 1807 - 534 pages
...have been produced by accident ; so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three without believing them to have sprung from some common...not quite so forcible, for supposing that both the Gothick and Celtick,. though blended with a very different idiom, had the same origin with the Santer'rt;... | |
 | Ossian - 1807 - 596 pages
...strong indeed that no philologer could examine them all without believing them to have come from one common source, which perhaps no longer exists. There...forcible, for supposing that both the Gothic and Celtic, though blended with a very different idiom, had the same • Asiatic Researches, Vol. II. p. 6. t Ibid.... | |
 | Sir William Jones - 1807 - 554 pages
...philologer could examine them all three without believing them to have sprung from some common ioiircc, which perhaps no longer exists. There is a similar...not quite so forcible, for supposing that both the Gothick and Ce/tici, though blended with a very different idiom, had the same origin with the Sa»~... | |
 | Classical philology - 1819 - 496 pages
...anniversary discourse declares, respecting the languages, " that no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them to have' sprung from some common source, which perhaps no longer exists." The Sanskrita was most probably the more ancient of the three, and as the Latin is but the ^Eolic dialect... | |
 | Ezra Sampson - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1813 - 434 pages
...possibly have been produced by accident ; so strong, indeed, that no philologer could examine them all, without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists." SARACENS, a people celebrated some centuries ago, who came from the deserts of Arabia. They proceeded... | |
 | Ezra Sampson - Children's encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1816 - 432 pages
...possibly have been produced by accident ; so strong, indeed, that no philologer could examine them all, without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists." SARACENS, a people celebrated some centuries ago, who came from the desarts of Arabia. They proceeded... | |
 | Charles O'Conor - Manuscripts - 1819 - 624 pages
...have been produced by accident ; so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all " three, without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, DO " longer exists. There is a similar reason, though not quite so forcible, for supposing that both... | |
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