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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... banks of the Nile ; and that primeval country , we are in- formed from the most facred authority , was CHALDEA . + Plinii Nat . Hift . lib . xviii , cap . 47. Aldi Edit . Impressed Impressed therefore with ideas on the sub- ject ...
... banks of the Nile ; and that primeval country , we are in- formed from the most facred authority , was CHALDEA . + Plinii Nat . Hift . lib . xviii , cap . 47. Aldi Edit . Impressed Impressed therefore with ideas on the sub- ject ...
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... banks of the 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 ...
... banks of the 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 ...
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... as His Grace the DUKE of MONTROSE , and the Right Hon . the EARL OF WINCHELSEA ; SIR JOSEPH BANKS , Bart . Prefident of the Royal Society , who , amidst amidst his other numerous and more impor- tant engagements , [ cxxi ]
... as His Grace the DUKE of MONTROSE , and the Right Hon . the EARL OF WINCHELSEA ; SIR JOSEPH BANKS , Bart . Prefident of the Royal Society , who , amidst amidst his other numerous and more impor- tant engagements , [ cxxi ]
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... banks , fimilar to thofe which grew on the fhore of the Nile , as well as by the recollection that Homer had called the Nile Ægyptus on its entering Egypt ; a circumstance which feemed to prove that it acquired , in its progrefs , the ...
... banks , fimilar to thofe which grew on the fhore of the Nile , as well as by the recollection that Homer had called the Nile Ægyptus on its entering Egypt ; a circumstance which feemed to prove that it acquired , in its progrefs , the ...
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... bank of the In- dus , on the fite , as it is fuppofed , where the castle and city of Attock now ftands . This was the flourishing capital of Taxiles , an Indian prince , or rajah , who on the approach of Alex- ander , convinced ...
... bank of the In- dus , on the fite , as it is fuppofed , where the castle and city of Attock now ftands . This was the flourishing capital of Taxiles , an Indian prince , or rajah , who on the approach of Alex- ander , convinced ...
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