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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Page 17
... kind of foliage , repre- sentative of the compreffed branches of the trees more usually deemed facred . There is , in Pococke , a large plate of Egyptian co- lumns , with their varied capitals : thofe capi- tals , in general , bulge out ...
... kind of foliage , repre- sentative of the compreffed branches of the trees more usually deemed facred . There is , in Pococke , a large plate of Egyptian co- lumns , with their varied capitals : thofe capi- tals , in general , bulge out ...
Page 25
... kind , as the bull or goat , while the combinations of thefe animals , or parts of animals , were intended to defignate his united power , wisdom , and glory . Degrading to the Divine Nature as these representations appear to us , and ...
... kind , as the bull or goat , while the combinations of thefe animals , or parts of animals , were intended to defignate his united power , wisdom , and glory . Degrading to the Divine Nature as these representations appear to us , and ...
Page 79
... kind and origin in India , formed at the mouths of the Ganges and Indus , it will be my bufinefs to state somewhat at large hereafter . To what I have already observed , from the prefident of the Afiatic Society , relative to the name ...
... kind and origin in India , formed at the mouths of the Ganges and Indus , it will be my bufinefs to state somewhat at large hereafter . To what I have already observed , from the prefident of the Afiatic Society , relative to the name ...
Page 85
... kind , fwayed the mind of those who erected the pyramids , is evident from the very mode of their fabrication , with regular fteps " run- ning round the pyramid in a level line , and making a long , but narrow , walk , by which , as by ...
... kind , fwayed the mind of those who erected the pyramids , is evident from the very mode of their fabrication , with regular fteps " run- ning round the pyramid in a level line , and making a long , but narrow , walk , by which , as by ...
Page 90
... kind of canal for the conveyance of air , food , and fuch other ne- ceffaries to the miferable beings , inclosed with the corpfe of their monarch , as long as life remained to them ; and he makes no doubt but they were provided with a ...
... kind of canal for the conveyance of air , food , and fuch other ne- ceffaries to the miferable beings , inclosed with the corpfe of their monarch , as long as life remained to them ; and he makes no doubt but they were provided with a ...
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adored adorned æra afcended affertion Afiatic aftoniſhing aftronomical alfo animals antiquity architecture Aurengzeb beautiful becauſe Brahmins caverns celebrated circumftance coloffal columns confecrated confidered conftruction dæmons decorated defcendants defcribed defcription defigns deity Diodorus Diodorus Siculus dome Doric order edifice Egypt Egyptian engraved erected fabricated facred fame fays fculptured feems feet ferpent feven fhall fhould fhrine fide figns fimilar fince firft firſt fituated flouriſhed folar fome fquare ftatues ftill ftones ftructure ftupendous fuch fuperb fuperftition fuppofed fupported fymbol Gazna grand groves Herodotus hieroglyphics hiftory himſelf Hindoftan Hindoo idol Ifis India Indian inftance itſelf Jaggernaut lefs lofty maffy magnificent majeſtic marble Mithra moft ancient moſt muſt Nile obferved Ofiris paffage pagoda Perfian Plutarch Pococke portico prefent prieſts purpoſe pyramids reader reafon receffes repreſented Reſearches reſemblance rites roof Savary temple Thebais thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe tion Typhon univerfally uſed vafe vaft veneration Vitruvius walls whofe worſhip