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, AND THE VARIOUS AND PROFOUND LITERATURE OF HINDOSTAN: COMPARED, THROUGHOUT, WITH THE RELIGION, LAWS, GOVERNMENT AND LITERATURE OF PERSIA, EGYPT, AND GREECE. THE WHOLE Intended as Introductory To, and Illustrative Of, THE HISTORY OF HINDOSTAN.. Containing the DISSERTATIONS on the GEOGRAPHICAL DIVISIONS, and the THEOLOGY, of HINDOSTAN, Volume 1THE AUTHOR, 1793 |
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Page xxvi
... seems to think he treated with too much contempt , he might have derived a furprising support to his affertions from many of their aftronomical productions . For in- ftance , in Dr. Hyde's tranflation of ULUG BEG's Tables of the Fixed ...
... seems to think he treated with too much contempt , he might have derived a furprising support to his affertions from many of their aftronomical productions . For in- ftance , in Dr. Hyde's tranflation of ULUG BEG's Tables of the Fixed ...
Page xxxvi
... seem to be of a fimilar nature with the TEN SARI of Chaldæa , and the TEN SEPHIROTH of the Hebrews , extensively explained , the ferious body of claffical history will com- mence towards the middle of the firft volume , with an account ...
... seem to be of a fimilar nature with the TEN SARI of Chaldæa , and the TEN SEPHIROTH of the Hebrews , extensively explained , the ferious body of claffical history will com- mence towards the middle of the firft volume , with an account ...
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... seems fcrupulously to adhere to the maxims of Ma- jor Davy . The reader will therefore find in that Dissertation , a variety of orthography which I cannot approve ; but knew not well how to avoid . It was the differtation first written ...
... seems fcrupulously to adhere to the maxims of Ma- jor Davy . The reader will therefore find in that Dissertation , a variety of orthography which I cannot approve ; but knew not well how to avoid . It was the differtation first written ...
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... seem- ed , indeed , to demand from a writer on orien- tal history and antiquities , more than common attention , and therefore the exertions of the engraver have been called forth to furnish my subscribers with three plates elucidatory ...
... seem- ed , indeed , to demand from a writer on orien- tal history and antiquities , more than common attention , and therefore the exertions of the engraver have been called forth to furnish my subscribers with three plates elucidatory ...
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... that which broke in upon the initiated of old , has poured upon me , from amidst the deep obfcurity of that folemn retreat ; and the avatars , de- fcending p 2 fcending from their ftations , seem to fweep before me ( ci )
... that which broke in upon the initiated of old , has poured upon me , from amidst the deep obfcurity of that folemn retreat ; and the avatars , de- fcending p 2 fcending from their ftations , seem to fweep before me ( ci )
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