"Tamilnadu has known no "real" [R]enaissance-like development . . . there was no development comparable to the Europea…"

"However, until before the bhakti trend set in, before the so-called 'dark ages', in the Tamil classical age, in the a…"

"As Wheeler pointed out long ago, Harappan civilization is the most spatially extensive of all the early civilizations…"

"Abbreviations are the wheels of language, the wings of Mercury. And though we might be dragged along without them, it…"

"I never cared a bit for philology; my chief aim has been throughout to illustrate the social condition of the English…"

"Aux États-Unis la nature, comme la société, n'est pas toujours belle, mais elle est toujours grande."

"Since the normal tendency is to simplify, to trivialize, to eliminate the unfamiliar word or construction, the rule i…"

"Although Champollion was an avowed revolutionary and an enthusiastic Bonapartist, one of his earliest discoveries dis…"

"H. Kern in his book Over het woord Zarathushtra (1867) states, “the Bactrian (i.e. Avestan) is so (greatly) related t…"

"That classical philology received comparative linguistics with mistrust and doubt was very natural. The newborn young…"