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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... five rivers that water it , feems to have been univerfally mistaken for the Supreme Monarch of India , to whom , probably , that prince was only one , though not the leaft formidable , among many tri- butary princes ; and the ...
... five rivers that water it , feems to have been univerfally mistaken for the Supreme Monarch of India , to whom , probably , that prince was only one , though not the leaft formidable , among many tri- butary princes ; and the ...
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... five fucceffive fove- reigns of the imperial house of TIMUR , I ex- pected , and have found material information from the perufal of them . In one of the let- ters of this Gentleman to the Chief of Patna , his fucceffor , he declares it ...
... five fucceffive fove- reigns of the imperial house of TIMUR , I ex- pected , and have found material information from the perufal of them . In one of the let- ters of this Gentleman to the Chief of Patna , his fucceffor , he declares it ...
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... made ufe of in the elucidation , only , of this work , were vended at the high prices of five , ten , and fifteen guineas , the price of the work itself itfelf ought to bear fome proportion to the expences incurred ( lxxxiv )
... made ufe of in the elucidation , only , of this work , were vended at the high prices of five , ten , and fifteen guineas , the price of the work itself itfelf ought to bear fome proportion to the expences incurred ( lxxxiv )
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... five feet ; while the breadth , between the fhoulders , ex- pands to the enormous amount of near twenty feet . Even the relation of these dimenfions in company , particularly , of those of the stupendous erections by Sultan Akber , at ...
... five feet ; while the breadth , between the fhoulders , ex- pands to the enormous amount of near twenty feet . Even the relation of these dimenfions in company , particularly , of those of the stupendous erections by Sultan Akber , at ...
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... five hundred and ninety - two thousand trillions of lunar years , are but a SECOND to the fupreme Being . " Under fuch awful impres fions of the divine nature , who can be afto- nished at the magnitude and extent of the temples erected ...
... five hundred and ninety - two thousand trillions of lunar years , are but a SECOND to the fupreme Being . " Under fuch awful impres fions of the divine nature , who can be afto- nished at the magnitude and extent of the temples erected ...
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