Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 54; Volume 117Leavitt, Throw and Company, 1891 |
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... Sanskrit . It possesses , for instance , a subjunctive , like Greek , of which there is hardly a trace left in the Epic poems or in the Laws of Manu . Such changes require centuries . In fact , if we ask ourselves how long it must have ...
... Sanskrit . It possesses , for instance , a subjunctive , like Greek , of which there is hardly a trace left in the Epic poems or in the Laws of Manu . Such changes require centuries . In fact , if we ask ourselves how long it must have ...
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... Sanskrit , had as much right as Per- sian , as Greek and Latin , and Celtic and Slavonic , nay , as Gothic , Anglo - Saxon , and English - when the student of language has gathered the broken links of that Aryan chain and fitted them ...
... Sanskrit , had as much right as Per- sian , as Greek and Latin , and Celtic and Slavonic , nay , as Gothic , Anglo - Saxon , and English - when the student of language has gathered the broken links of that Aryan chain and fitted them ...
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... Sanskrit the same language , I do not wish to raise false hopes in the hearts of candi- dates for the Indian Civil Service . All I mean is , that English and Sanskrit are substantially the same language - are but two varieties of the ...
... Sanskrit the same language , I do not wish to raise false hopes in the hearts of candi- dates for the Indian Civil Service . All I mean is , that English and Sanskrit are substantially the same language - are but two varieties of the ...
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... Sanskrit and English . Why do we say in English dead and death ? I mean , why is there a d as the termination of the participle , and a th as the termination of the substantive ? This may seem a very far - fetched question . Most people ...
... Sanskrit and English . Why do we say in English dead and death ? I mean , why is there a d as the termination of the participle , and a th as the termination of the substantive ? This may seem a very far - fetched question . Most people ...
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... Sanskrit , which has sometimes been called the most an- cient language of the world , is really to The ghost of that dead language , or of some even more ancient ancestor , still haunts the dark passages of our own speech . Though dead ...
... Sanskrit , which has sometimes been called the most an- cient language of the world , is really to The ghost of that dead language , or of some even more ancient ancestor , still haunts the dark passages of our own speech . Though dead ...
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