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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... force from an author , who is , perhaps , the greatest master of languages in the world ; and if correct verfions , fuch as those with which himself and Mr. Wilkins have obliged the public , from the Sanfcreet , and fuch as Pocock ...
... force from an author , who is , perhaps , the greatest master of languages in the world ; and if correct verfions , fuch as those with which himself and Mr. Wilkins have obliged the public , from the Sanfcreet , and fuch as Pocock ...
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... introductory remarks to mitigate the force of one , or two , that may be urged against it . The first , and not the leaft formidable , will probably be pointed against the i the [ vii ] hereafter enumerated, to admit of any im- ...
... introductory remarks to mitigate the force of one , or two , that may be urged against it . The first , and not the leaft formidable , will probably be pointed against the i the [ vii ] hereafter enumerated, to admit of any im- ...
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... force of electric fire , and seizes upon the cap- tive heart.It is poffible , therefore , that the MUSE , the bewitching enchantress of my juvenile days ; that MUSE whofe fmile I fo long and fo ardently courted , may have in fome fome ...
... force of electric fire , and seizes upon the cap- tive heart.It is poffible , therefore , that the MUSE , the bewitching enchantress of my juvenile days ; that MUSE whofe fmile I fo long and fo ardently courted , may have in fome fome ...
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... force of language could not fully elucidate them ; nor the most folemn atteftations of the most authentic tra- vellers give them the stamp of credibility . I was , therefore , to illuftrate the ideas I wished to convey , compelled to ...
... force of language could not fully elucidate them ; nor the most folemn atteftations of the most authentic tra- vellers give them the stamp of credibility . I was , therefore , to illuftrate the ideas I wished to convey , compelled to ...
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... forces of the Cathæi , the Malli , and the Oxydrace . The city which their combined army attempted to defend against the veteran Greeks was called Sangala , which Mr. Rennel thinks was fituated between La- hore and Multan , and ...
... forces of the Cathæi , the Malli , and the Oxydrace . The city which their combined army attempted to defend against the veteran Greeks was called Sangala , which Mr. Rennel thinks was fituated between La- hore and Multan , and ...
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