Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaft und orientalischen Philologie in Deutschland seit dem Anfange des 19. Jahrhunderts: mit einem Rückblick auf die früheren Zeiten

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J.G. Cotta, 1869 - 836 páginas
 

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Página 352 - The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the 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, that no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them to have sprung from some common source which, perhaps, no longer exists...
Página 285 - Nouvelle difficulté pire encore que la précédente : car si les hommes ont eu besoin • de la parole pour apprendre à penser , ils ont eu bien plus besoin encore de savoir penser pour trouver l'art de la parole...
Página 286 - Quant à moi, effrayé des difficultés qui se multiplient, et convaincu de l'impossibilité presque démontrée que les langues aient pu naître et s'établir par des moyens purement humains, je laisse à qui voudra l'entreprendre la discussion de ce difficile problème, lequel a été le plus nécessaire de la société déjà liée à l'institution des langues, ou des langues déjà inventées à l'établissement de la société.
Página 306 - All those common terminations, in any language, of which all nouns or verbs in that language equally partake (under the notion of declension or conjugation) are themselves separate words with distinct meanings : which are therefore added to the different nouns or verbs, because those additional meanings are intended to be added occasionally to all those nouns or verbs. These terminations are all explicable, and ought all to be explained; or there will be no end of such fantastical writers as this...
Página 352 - ... 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, that no philologer could examine them all...
Página 344 - Greek : and these not in technical and metaphorical terms, which the mutuation of refined arts and improved manners might have occasionally introduced; but in the main ground- work of language, in monosyllables, in the names of numbers, and the appellations of such things as would be first discriminated on the immediate dawn of civilization.
Página 32 - Behold now the building named the Stages of the Seven Spheres, which was the wonder of Borsippa, had been built by a former king. He had completed forty-two cubits [of height] ; but he did not finish its head. From the lapse of time it had become ruined.
Página 32 - Spheres,' which was the wonder of Borsippa, had been built by a former king. He had completed forty-two ammas (of the height), but he did not finish its head. From the lapse of time it had become ruined ; they had not taken care of the exits of the waters, so the rain and wet had penetrated into the brickwork ; the casing of burnt...
Página 251 - ... des universaux, fondés sur la similitude. Donc comme il ne s'agit que de similitude plus ou moins étendue, selon qu'on parle des genres ou des espèces, il est naturel de marquer...
Página 395 - DICTIONARY IN SANSKRIT AND ENGLISH. Translated, amended, and enlarged from an original compilation prepared by learned Natives for the College of Fort William by HH WILSON.

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