The English philologist, Sir John Bowring (1792-1872), spoke many languages: Hungarian was one of them. He translated many Hungarian poems into English, and issued a literary chrestomathy. In its foreword he wrote the following (credit):

"The Magyar language stands afar off and alone. The study of other tongues will be found of exceedingly little use towards its right understanding. It is moulded in a form essentially its own, and its construction and composition may be safely referred to an epoch when most of the living tongues of Europe either had no existence, or no influence on the Hungarian region."

POETRY OF THE MAGYARS,
Preceded by a Sketch of the Language and Literature of Hungary and Transylvania
by John Bowring, London: Printed for the Author, 1830. Preface 6.

Variety 'from the street', anonym handout:

"Would you be able forget this language?
The Hungarian language goes far back. It developed in a very peculiar manner, and its structure reaches back to times most of the spoken European languages did not even exist. It is a language in which there is a logic and mathematics with the adaptability and malleability of strength and chords. The Englishmann should be proud that this language indicates an epic of human history. One can show fort his origin, and alien layers can be distinguished in it, which gathered together during the contacts with different nations. Whereas the Hungarian language is like a rubble stone, consisting of only one piece on which the storm of time left not scratch. It is not a calendar that adjusts to the changes of ages. This language is the oldest and most glorious monument of national sovereignty and mental independence.
What scholars could not solve, they ignore. In philology it the same as in archeology. The floors of the old Egyptian temples which wewre made out of the a single rock cannot be explained. No one knows where they came from, from which mountain the wondrous mass was taken, or how they were transported and lifted in place in the temples. The geouiness of the Hungarian language is much more wondrous than this. He who solves it shall be analyzing the divine secret:
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."

Sir John Bowring
english philologist
(1792-1872)
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related (in hungarian):
Marácz László: A finnugor elmélet tarthatatlansága nyelvészeti szempontból (link)
(Insupportableness of the finn-ugric theory from linguistic aspects)