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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... evident and forcibly arrefts attention in the arrangement of their columns , at regu- lar and ftated distances , forming vaft aitles and gloomy avenues that extended all round the outfide , as well as through the whole in- ternal length ...
... evident and forcibly arrefts attention in the arrangement of their columns , at regu- lar and ftated distances , forming vaft aitles and gloomy avenues that extended all round the outfide , as well as through the whole in- ternal length ...
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... evident to the reader , who will take the trou- ble of turning to the pages of that entertain ing traveller and faithful narrator Captain Hamilton , or of the above - cited hiftorian . The former affures us , that the temple of Jag ...
... evident to the reader , who will take the trou- ble of turning to the pages of that entertain ing traveller and faithful narrator Captain Hamilton , or of the above - cited hiftorian . The former affures us , that the temple of Jag ...
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... evident from every review of the ancient history of the two countries , that , in the moft early ages , a very familiar intercourse subsisted between India and Egypt . Upon evidence , that appears neither irrational , nor unfupported by ...
... evident from every review of the ancient history of the two countries , that , in the moft early ages , a very familiar intercourse subsisted between India and Egypt . Upon evidence , that appears neither irrational , nor unfupported by ...
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... evident , from his differ- tation , that a confiderable intercourse , in very remote periods , has fubfifted . Mr. Chambers fuppofes Afiat . Research . vol . i . p . 145 . among 1 fuppofes this religion to be the worship of [ 64 ]
... evident , from his differ- tation , that a confiderable intercourse , in very remote periods , has fubfifted . Mr. Chambers fuppofes Afiat . Research . vol . i . p . 145 . among 1 fuppofes this religion to be the worship of [ 64 ]
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... evident , when , in the first volume of my history , I fhall con- fider the various and rival claims to prece- dence , in point of antiquity , of all the Orien- tal nations . For the present it may be fuffi- cient to remark , that a ...
... evident , when , in the first volume of my history , I fhall con- fider the various and rival claims to prece- dence , in point of antiquity , of all the Orien- tal nations . For the present it may be fuffi- cient to remark , that a ...
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