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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... empire . Happily , to gratify the excited curiofity of the public , the grand defiderata were foon obtained . Mr. Wilkins , who first sprang the mine , and has ever fince been indefatigable in his efforts to bring to light the ...
... empire . Happily , to gratify the excited curiofity of the public , the grand defiderata were foon obtained . Mr. Wilkins , who first sprang the mine , and has ever fince been indefatigable in his efforts to bring to light the ...
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... empire of the infant world . In short , I have the most confident hope of being able to DEMONSTRATE as I proceed , that the wars of the Giants and Titans of other nations , are C 2 known known in India under that denomination ; and the ...
... empire of the infant world . In short , I have the most confident hope of being able to DEMONSTRATE as I proceed , that the wars of the Giants and Titans of other nations , are C 2 known known in India under that denomination ; and the ...
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... empire was , with the ufual vanity of the Greeks , magnified into the conqueft of India . By comparing , however , the relations of the Greek and Roman writers with those of FERISTAH , and the other ori- ental hiftorians , of whom , a ...
... empire was , with the ufual vanity of the Greeks , magnified into the conqueft of India . By comparing , however , the relations of the Greek and Roman writers with those of FERISTAH , and the other ori- ental hiftorians , of whom , a ...
Page xvii
... empires of the earth amount to little more than the romantic dreams of aftrono- mical mythology . This is particularly evident in Hindoftan , from the two great and most an- cient rajah families being denominated SUR- YA - BANS and ...
... empires of the earth amount to little more than the romantic dreams of aftrono- mical mythology . This is particularly evident in Hindoftan , from the two great and most an- cient rajah families being denominated SUR- YA - BANS and ...
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- ...
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