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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... Christ ; and it is proba- ble that the poet would fo far obferve confift- ency , as to endeavour to represent the man- ners of the age in which Dushmanta reigned . It It is , indeed , a moft valuable acquifition to [ v ]
... Christ ; and it is proba- ble that the poet would fo far obferve confift- ency , as to endeavour to represent the man- ners of the age in which Dushmanta reigned . It It is , indeed , a moft valuable acquifition to [ v ]
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... more momentous re- fearch . The daring affertions of certain scep- tical French philofophers with respect to the Age of the World , whofe arguments I have attempted - d • 1 attempted to refute , arguments principally founded on the [ xvii ]
... more momentous re- fearch . The daring affertions of certain scep- tical French philofophers with respect to the Age of the World , whofe arguments I have attempted - d • 1 attempted to refute , arguments principally founded on the [ xvii ]
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... be folved . Guided by such indisputable authorities , I truft , I have proved in the first volume of my history , that the personages who are said to have flourished fo many thousand years in the earliest ages have [ xviii ] 1 ...
... be folved . Guided by such indisputable authorities , I truft , I have proved in the first volume of my history , that the personages who are said to have flourished fo many thousand years in the earliest ages have [ xviii ] 1 ...
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... ages , were of celeftial , not terrestrial , origin ; that their empire was the empire of ima- gination , in the skies , not of real power on this globe of earth ; that the day and year of Brah- ma , and the day and year of Mortals ...
... ages , were of celeftial , not terrestrial , origin ; that their empire was the empire of ima- gination , in the skies , not of real power on this globe of earth ; that the day and year of Brah- ma , and the day and year of Mortals ...
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... ages , might be read in the heavens , " was the opi- nion of the late Mr. Coftard , one of the most profound oriental aftronomers ever born out of Afia . But it is a fact notorious , and allow- ed by all proficients in that noble and ...
... ages , might be read in the heavens , " was the opi- nion of the late Mr. Coftard , one of the most profound oriental aftronomers ever born out of Afia . But it is a fact notorious , and allow- ed by all proficients in that noble and ...
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