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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... concerning whom more has been WRITTEN and lefs really KNOWN , than any other nation that anciently tenanted the vast regions of Afia , were accompanied by the most active and vigorous perfonal exertions , of a fimilar kind , upon the ...
... concerning whom more has been WRITTEN and lefs really KNOWN , than any other nation that anciently tenanted the vast regions of Afia , were accompanied by the most active and vigorous perfonal exertions , of a fimilar kind , upon the ...
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... concerning India by the Perfian and Arabian hiftorians , of whom we have been favoured with elegant Latin verfions by Pocock , Erpenius , Golius , Hud- fon , Reifke , and other great oriental scholars , I fate down to the ferious re ...
... concerning India by the Perfian and Arabian hiftorians , of whom we have been favoured with elegant Latin verfions by Pocock , Erpenius , Golius , Hud- fon , Reifke , and other great oriental scholars , I fate down to the ferious re ...
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... unsolicited fubfcribers , was the Marquis of Lanfdown , who fent an agent to enquire concerning the author , and to ex- prefs his lordship's hope that " fo meritorious a work a work might not fink for want of proper fupport [ x ]
... unsolicited fubfcribers , was the Marquis of Lanfdown , who fent an agent to enquire concerning the author , and to ex- prefs his lordship's hope that " fo meritorious a work a work might not fink for want of proper fupport [ x ]
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... Wilkins . But the profound obfervations in that treatife , concerning the Sanfcreet language , and the proper modes of writing it , in Roman letters , as well as many other 24 other remarks on this abstruse subject , by the [ viii ]
... Wilkins . But the profound obfervations in that treatife , concerning the Sanfcreet language , and the proper modes of writing it , in Roman letters , as well as many other 24 other remarks on this abstruse subject , by the [ viii ]
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... concerning the An- cient Inhabitants of these refpective Empires . The Differtation of the fame Author , in the first vo- lume of that production , on the Gods of Greece , Italy , and India . Voyage aux Indes Orientales , par M ...
... concerning the An- cient Inhabitants of these refpective Empires . The Differtation of the fame Author , in the first vo- lume of that production , on the Gods of Greece , Italy , and India . Voyage aux Indes Orientales , par M ...
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