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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... still bearing each to the other fuch a general feature of fimilitude , as to demonstrate their originating in the fertile invention of the fame race , and their cor- respondence to the early events of one com- mon country . In my ...
... still bearing each to the other fuch a general feature of fimilitude , as to demonstrate their originating in the fertile invention of the fame race , and their cor- respondence to the early events of one com- mon country . In my ...
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... still farther , but unavoidable , delay in publication , caused by the maps and engravings above - enumerated , a few highly refpectable fubfcribers have been added to the Lift , previously given ; and I am proud to fubjoin to that lift ...
... still farther , but unavoidable , delay in publication , caused by the maps and engravings above - enumerated , a few highly refpectable fubfcribers have been added to the Lift , previously given ; and I am proud to fubjoin to that lift ...
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... still more to the fouth - weft , near the shore of the main ftream of the Indus ; " and their capital , " fays Mr. Rennel , was doubt- lefs Multan . " It may be proper , however , in this place , to note , that the Dutch traveller ...
... still more to the fouth - weft , near the shore of the main ftream of the Indus ; " and their capital , " fays Mr. Rennel , was doubt- lefs Multan . " It may be proper , however , in this place , to note , that the Dutch traveller ...
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... still lay between them and the Ganges , and to en gage in unequal conteft with the innumerable armies which they were informed the powerful and warlike nations that dwelt on its banks were able to pour into the field . The reader , by ...
... still lay between them and the Ganges , and to en gage in unequal conteft with the innumerable armies which they were informed the powerful and warlike nations that dwelt on its banks were able to pour into the field . The reader , by ...
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... still more ex- travagant rate ; for he fays their combined army amounted to eighty thousand horfe , two hun 9 $ Diod . Sic . lib . xvii . p . 678 . r Curtius , lib . ix . cap . 2 . s Plut . in Vita Alex . D dred 1 dred thoufand foot ...
... still more ex- travagant rate ; for he fays their combined army amounted to eighty thousand horfe , two hun 9 $ Diod . Sic . lib . xvii . p . 678 . r Curtius , lib . ix . cap . 2 . s Plut . in Vita Alex . D dred 1 dred thoufand foot ...
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