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 xxiv
... ASIA ITSELF , AND OF THE HUMAN RACE IN THEIR INFANT STATE . Without taking this enlarged retrospect of ancient pe- riods , the early hiftory of an empire , undoubt riods , [ xxiv ] Impressed therefore with ideas on the sub- ...
... ASIA ITSELF , AND OF THE HUMAN RACE IN THEIR INFANT STATE . Without taking this enlarged retrospect of ancient pe- riods , the early hiftory of an empire , undoubt riods , [ xxiv ] Impressed therefore with ideas on the sub- ...
Page cxxvii
... Asia , for great monarchs , and com- manders of armies , to carry in their train certain persons whofe office it was to measure the roads , and defcribe the provinces through which they paffed . Thefe Itineraries proved afterwards of ...
... Asia , for great monarchs , and com- manders of armies , to carry in their train certain persons whofe office it was to measure the roads , and defcribe the provinces through which they paffed . Thefe Itineraries proved afterwards of ...
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... Asia , prefixed to Nadir Shah . q Μεταξυ δε του Υδάσπου και του Ακεσίνου , ήτε του Περού επί γη πολλή και αγαθή , σχεδόν τι και περι τριακοσίων mohɛwv . Strabo , lib . xv . p . 663 . r Cellarii Geog , Ant . tom . fecund . p . 529 . have ...
... Asia , prefixed to Nadir Shah . q Μεταξυ δε του Υδάσπου και του Ακεσίνου , ήτε του Περού επί γη πολλή και αγαθή , σχεδόν τι και περι τριακοσίων mohɛwv . Strabo , lib . xv . p . 663 . r Cellarii Geog , Ant . tom . fecund . p . 529 . have ...
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... lofty PYRAMIDAL Gateways , symbolical , of the ancient superstitious worship , so predominant in ASIA of the SOLAR ORB , & ELEMENTAL FIRE . From Sonnerat " 4 : 3 CHA P. II . Of the A magnificent PAGODA on the coast of COROMANDEL; ...
... lofty PYRAMIDAL Gateways , symbolical , of the ancient superstitious worship , so predominant in ASIA of the SOLAR ORB , & ELEMENTAL FIRE . From Sonnerat " 4 : 3 CHA P. II . Of the A magnificent PAGODA on the coast of COROMANDEL; ...
Page 145
... Asia , p.7 . " that , according to the Indians , no man can be called the ruler of India who has not taken poffeffion of Cabul . ' Baber was in poffeffion of it ; and foon became Ľ It the the Indian fovereign . Abdallah , its late ...
... Asia , p.7 . " that , according to the Indians , no man can be called the ruler of India who has not taken poffeffion of Cabul . ' Baber was in poffeffion of it ; and foon became Ľ It the the Indian fovereign . Abdallah , its late ...
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