 | ARTHUR A MACDONELL - 1900 - 522 pages
...th, d, dh, n, and the labials as /, ph, b, bh, m. We Europeans, on the other hand, 2500 years later, and in a scientific age, still employ an alphabet...adaptation of the primitive Semitic arrangement of 3000 years ago. In the inscriptions of the third century BC two types, the Northern and the Southern,... | |
 | Prafulla Chandra Ray - Chemistry - 1903 - 544 pages
...die Inder." pp. 4^-59. 13) Sec Goldstiioker : "Panini : his place in Sanskrit Literature." language, but even preserves the random order in which vowels...adaptation of the primitive Semitic arrangement of 3000 years ago." It is curious to reflect that the upholders of the " Greek Culture " are often found... | |
 | Har Bilas Sarda (Diwan Bahadur) - Hindus - 1906 - 506 pages
...far behind the Hindus in this respect. Professor Macdonell says: "We Europeans, 2,500 years later, and in a scientific age, still employ an alphabet...only inadequate to represent all the sounds of our language, but even preserves the random order in which vowels and consonants arc jumbled up as they... | |
 | George Howells - Christianity and other religions - 1913 - 654 pages
...this arrangement of the alphabet is self-evident. We Europeans, on the other hand, 2,500 years later, and in a scientific age, still employ an alphabet...order in which vowels and consonants are jumbled up just as they were in the Greek adaptation of the primitive Semitic arrangement of 3,000 years ago.*... | |
 | George Howells - India - 1913 - 926 pages
...our languages, but even preserves the random order in which vowels and consonants are jumbled up just as they were in the Greek adaptation of the primitive Semitic arrangement of 3,000 years ago.* The following points regarding Sanskrit as a language are worthy of note : (i) There is, properly speaking,... | |
 | Har Bilas Sarda (Diwan Bahadur) - Hindu civilization - 1922 - 498 pages
...the Hindus in this respect. Professor Macdonell says : " We Europeans, 2,500 years later, and in the scientific age, still employ an alphabet which is...only inadequate to represent all the sounds of our language, but even preserve the random order in. which vowels and consonants are jumbled up as they... | |
 | University of Calcutta. Department of Letters - Buddha (The concept) - 1923 - 376 pages
...speech with which they are pronounced. Thus the dental consonants appear together as t, th, d, dfi, n, and the labials as p, ph, b, bh, m. "We, Europeans,...consonants are jumbled up as they were in the Greek adaption of the primitive Semitic arrangement of 3,000 years ago." : 180 Max Muller wrongly maintained... | |
 | Aurthur Macdonnell - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 485 pages
...th, d, dh, n, and the labials as/, pht b, bh, m. We Europeans, on the other hand, 2500 years later, and in a scientific age, still employ an alphabet...are jumbled up as they were in the Greek adaptation ol the primitive Semitic arrangement of 3000 years ago. In the inscriptions of the third century BC... | |
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... but even preserves the random order in which vowels and consonants are jumbled up as they were in the Greek adaptation of the primitive Semitic arrangement of 3000 years ago. 