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 xi
... shall not be thought presumptuous for offering a decifive opinion with respect to that remote period , and those apparently fa- bulous events . I confider the whole as only a corruption of ancient Chaldæan history and traditions , and ...
... shall not be thought presumptuous for offering a decifive opinion with respect to that remote period , and those apparently fa- bulous events . I confider the whole as only a corruption of ancient Chaldæan history and traditions , and ...
Page xxii
... shall be stated at prefent . In the first place , they are not adapted to the order in which the feafons fucceeded each other in Egypt . For inftance the fign Virgo , which is reprefented by a young female , with ears of ripened corn in ...
... shall be stated at prefent . In the first place , they are not adapted to the order in which the feafons fucceeded each other in Egypt . For inftance the fign Virgo , which is reprefented by a young female , with ears of ripened corn in ...
Page xxviii
... shall hereafter explain ) denomi- nated Chiron , the Centaur ; fourthly , the BEAST about to be facrificed , improperly called Lupus , fince Ptolemy uses the term Ongios , and the Arabian appellative of the conftellation , is tranflated ...
... shall hereafter explain ) denomi- nated Chiron , the Centaur ; fourthly , the BEAST about to be facrificed , improperly called Lupus , fince Ptolemy uses the term Ongios , and the Arabian appellative of the conftellation , is tranflated ...
Page liii
... shall make no apology for in- ferting them below more correctly and unmutilated . I can assure the reader that , in doing this , I have no vanity to gratify . To compofe them was the most painful task , a task enjoined , near the clofe ...
... shall make no apology for in- ferting them below more correctly and unmutilated . I can assure the reader that , in doing this , I have no vanity to gratify . To compofe them was the most painful task , a task enjoined , near the clofe ...
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... shall pay the amount of this book , as fixed above , he will scarce- ly lay down the value of the maps and en- gravings that illuftrate it , and that , from the fale of fingle volumes only , unless the work collectively fhould meet with ...
... shall pay the amount of this book , as fixed above , he will scarce- ly lay down the value of the maps and en- gravings that illuftrate it , and that , from the fale of fingle volumes only , unless the work collectively fhould meet with ...
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