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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... fhall hereafter be filled up , and the reader , will , I truft , find the dark period and events to which that voluminous detail bears reference , as fatisfactorily elucidated , as I flatter myself he will the obfcure history of the ...
... fhall hereafter be filled up , and the reader , will , I truft , find the dark period and events to which that voluminous detail bears reference , as fatisfactorily elucidated , as I flatter myself he will the obfcure history of the ...
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... fhall adduce of the won- derful fimilitude between the primitive theo- logy and manners of the Chaldæans and Indi- ans , especially in the veneration for facred fountains , formerly so prevalent in Cashmere , the region of India ...
... fhall adduce of the won- derful fimilitude between the primitive theo- logy and manners of the Chaldæans and Indi- ans , especially in the veneration for facred fountains , formerly so prevalent in Cashmere , the region of India ...
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... fhall think myself exceedingly ill repaid for literary toil , which coft me many nights of painful vigil , and which , from the intenfe application I was compelled to bestow upon the subject , mate- rially injured my health . It was an ...
... fhall think myself exceedingly ill repaid for literary toil , which coft me many nights of painful vigil , and which , from the intenfe application I was compelled to bestow upon the subject , mate- rially injured my health . It was an ...
Page xxii
... fhall , hereafter , have occafion to cite this curious paffage of Dr. Rutherforth more at length . It is in the second volume of the Quarto Edition , page 850 , Cambridge , 1748 . the the season of the harvest . Such , in fact [ xxii ]
... fhall , hereafter , have occafion to cite this curious paffage of Dr. Rutherforth more at length . It is in the second volume of the Quarto Edition , page 850 , Cambridge , 1748 . the the season of the harvest . Such , in fact [ xxii ]
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... fhall take the liberty of inferting the illuftrative words of my author himself . Dr. Hyde tells us the JEWS call this conftellation Gib- bor , that is , Gigas , the Giant . He then adds ; Propter duas Canes et Leporem quæ funt in ...
... fhall take the liberty of inferting the illuftrative words of my author himself . Dr. Hyde tells us the JEWS call this conftellation Gib- bor , that is , Gigas , the Giant . He then adds ; Propter duas Canes et Leporem quæ funt in ...
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