 | Peter Percival - 1854 - Počet stránok 582
...These apparent defects are, however, very effectively supplied in construction. Perhaps no language combines greater force with equal brevity; and it...of the mind. The sequence of things — of thought, purpose, action, and its results — is always maintained inviolate. Hank and station are provided... | |
 | 1855 - Počet stránok 398
...however the following passage, from his interesting book, with much pleasure : — " Perhaps no language combines greater force with equal brevity ; and it...exponent of the mind. The sequence of things, of thought, purpose, action and its results, is always maintained inviolate. Rank and station are provided for... | |
 | 1855 - Počet stránok 442
...passage, from his interesting book, with much pleasure : — " Perhaps no language combines greater fcwce with equal ' brevity ; and it may be asserted that...of ' the mind. The sequence of things, of thought, purpose, action ' and its results, is always maintained inviolate. Rank and sta' tion are provided... | |
 | Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg - 1869 - Počet stránok 276
...regarded as different languages. Of the Tamil, the Rev. P. Percival remarks]: — "Perhaps no language combines greater force with equal brevity ; and it...of thought, action, and its results — is always maintained inviolate." And Dr. Caldwell thus estimates its literary stores: — "Though Tamil literature,... | |
 | Charles E. Gover - 1871 - Počet stránok 336
...the Rev. P. Percival, in his excellent book — " The land of the Veda." — " Perhaps no language combines greater force with equal brevity ; and it...its expression as an exponent of the mind.... the language, thus specific, gives to the mind a readiness and clearness of conception, whilst its terseness... | |
 | Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland - 1893 - Počet stránok 984
...language combines greater force with equal brevity," wrote Mr. Percival in his Land of the Veda ; " and it may be asserted that no human speech is more...in its expression as an exponent of the mind. The language, thus specific, gives to the mind a readiness and clearness of conception, whilst its terseness... | |
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Perhaps no language combines greater force with equal brevity ; and it may be asserted that no human speech is more close and philosophic in its expression, as an exponent of the mind. The sequence of things, of thought, purpose, action and its results,... 