[TorryJens]

Some words that are even longer than what smt.VR has given:
Longest word in English - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

News about longest sentences is even more amazing!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_English_sentence

Here is the longest sentence with just a single word:
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo...uffalo_buffalo

What is the longest palindrome sentence in English?
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_th...nce_in_English

Other records:
http://www.bukisa.com/articles/35434...-english-words

About long Sanskrit words:
http://hellenisteukontos.blogspot.in...-sanskrit.html
http://www.indiadivine.org/audarya/h...-twisters.html

[Peptobismol]

Sanskrit has the sandhi rules to combine words to build a complex word. German also has this feature to combine words. I remember a cartoon hanging on the wall behind our german professor. A hammer ready to strike is positioned over the head of a seated man (professor) with a very complicated linkage mechanism attached to the chair. The picture has a long single word german caption with a rough translation - machine for the prevention of slumber during working hours.

[brraverishhh]

Thank you very much saidevoji. You have solved a long pending mystery for me.

namaste shrI Sarang and others.

I find that the long sentence you have quoted in the OP is from John Henry Newman:
Newman Reader - Idea of a University - Part 2 - Article 2