Indian Antiquities: Or, Dissertations Relative to the Ancient Geographical Divisions, the Pure System of Primeval Theology, the Grand Code of Civil Laws, the Original Form of Government, the Widely-extended Commerce, and the Various Profound Literature, of Hindostan: Compared, Throughout, with the Religion, Laws, Government, and Literature, of Persia, Egypt, and Greece, the Whole Intended as Introductory to The History of Hindostan, Upon a Comprehensive Scale ...The Author, 1801 - India |
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... acknowledge my lafting obligations to NATHANIEL BRASSEY HALHED , Esq . who has deeply investigated that curious subject , and who , I hope , will be incited by the same ardent It is owing to this afpect of Hermes towards the [ 232 ]
... acknowledge my lafting obligations to NATHANIEL BRASSEY HALHED , Esq . who has deeply investigated that curious subject , and who , I hope , will be incited by the same ardent It is owing to this afpect of Hermes towards the [ 232 ]
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... SAME . Mythologifts have been perplexed to find out the reafon of Scorpio being one of the figns of the zodiac ; and even the ingenious reafon of the Abbé Le Pluche is not entirely fatisfactory . * In the old Egyptian fphere , that fign ...
... SAME . Mythologifts have been perplexed to find out the reafon of Scorpio being one of the figns of the zodiac ; and even the ingenious reafon of the Abbé Le Pluche is not entirely fatisfactory . * In the old Egyptian fphere , that fign ...
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... same month , gave occafion to that ingenious allegory . But the word Haziram bears fome affinity to hazarin , a lettuce ; and here , fays Mr. Coftard , we find a reafon for another Egyp- tian fancy , that Adonis was laid by Venus on a ...
... same month , gave occafion to that ingenious allegory . But the word Haziram bears fome affinity to hazarin , a lettuce ; and here , fays Mr. Coftard , we find a reafon for another Egyp- tian fancy , that Adonis was laid by Venus on a ...
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