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 liii
... Ganges , where I began , in imagination , to range with delight , for the rugged rocks and Lethean ftream of Bristol Wells . It was indeed an occafion no lefs painful and diftreffing than the fight of distinguished worth , heightened by ...
... Ganges , where I began , in imagination , to range with delight , for the rugged rocks and Lethean ftream of Bristol Wells . It was indeed an occafion no lefs painful and diftreffing than the fight of distinguished worth , heightened by ...
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... GANGES , and the mightier BURRAMPOOTER . But what author could remain unanimated when introducing to the reader's notice ob- jects fo little known to the learned of Europe ? Objects equally aftonishing and magnificent . to the diffufion ...
... GANGES , and the mightier BURRAMPOOTER . But what author could remain unanimated when introducing to the reader's notice ob- jects fo little known to the learned of Europe ? Objects equally aftonishing and magnificent . to the diffufion ...
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... Ganges Ganges Tyndis Suppor Muziris Carura Tagara Pytindra Metropolis Mesolia Limyrica Barace , et Baris Felynda Chersonesus 85 90 ottonara Elancon Empor ? Cottiara E Mesolus S Arcatis Fina Fl Matunga Brachme ragia Sora Regi Soretanum I ...
... Ganges Ganges Tyndis Suppor Muziris Carura Tagara Pytindra Metropolis Mesolia Limyrica Barace , et Baris Felynda Chersonesus 85 90 ottonara Elancon Empor ? Cottiara E Mesolus S Arcatis Fina Fl Matunga Brachme ragia Sora Regi Soretanum I ...
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... Ganges , but by many other con- fiderable rivers . It was a cuftom of very ancient date , and of almost universal preva- lence , in Asia , for great monarchs , and com- manders of armies , to carry in their train certain persons whofe ...
... Ganges , but by many other con- fiderable rivers . It was a cuftom of very ancient date , and of almost universal preva- lence , in Asia , for great monarchs , and com- manders of armies , to carry in their train certain persons whofe ...
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... Ganges emptied itself into the Red Sea , but is ftrangely mistaken when , in the next sentence , he makes the Acefines discharge its waters into the Ganges . The following paffage is illuftrative of what has been faid above : " Mare ...
... Ganges emptied itself into the Red Sea , but is ftrangely mistaken when , in the next sentence , he makes the Acefines discharge its waters into the Ganges . The following paffage is illuftrative of what has been faid above : " Mare ...
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