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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... equally high in price , and difficult to be procured , I was not so early in poffeffion as I could have wished ; but having , at length , by the favour of Samuel Johnson Efq . of the India House , obtained it , I have amply profited by ...
... equally high in price , and difficult to be procured , I was not so early in poffeffion as I could have wished ; but having , at length , by the favour of Samuel Johnson Efq . of the India House , obtained it , I have amply profited by ...
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... equally above the bafenefs of prejudice , and the meanness of avarice ; and that , however humble the inftrument , they are never indifferent to the advancement of Literature , and the diffufion of Science . I frankly own to the candid ...
... equally above the bafenefs of prejudice , and the meanness of avarice ; and that , however humble the inftrument , they are never indifferent to the advancement of Literature , and the diffufion of Science . I frankly own to the candid ...
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... equally curious and remote from common investigation . If it happen that Cri- ticifm fhould point any fevere ftrictures on that portion of my work , I fhall think myself exceedingly ill repaid for literary toil , which coft me many ...
... equally curious and remote from common investigation . If it happen that Cri- ticifm fhould point any fevere ftrictures on that portion of my work , I fhall think myself exceedingly ill repaid for literary toil , which coft me many ...
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... equally recall to our remembrance the Egyptian Isis , and the Eleufinian Ceres with the nocturnal gloom , in which their rites were celebrated ; as they do the awful event , which I have united humble efforts with Mr. Bryant to prove ...
... equally recall to our remembrance the Egyptian Isis , and the Eleufinian Ceres with the nocturnal gloom , in which their rites were celebrated ; as they do the awful event , which I have united humble efforts with Mr. Bryant to prove ...
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... equally novel and gratifying ; that in one work , of small expence , was to be combined the fubftance of all the most ef- teemed Perfian and Arabian hiftorians upon the fubject , of whofe productions correct and elegant verfions have ...
... equally novel and gratifying ; that in one work , of small expence , was to be combined the fubftance of all the most ef- teemed Perfian and Arabian hiftorians upon the fubject , of whofe productions correct and elegant verfions have ...
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