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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Page xviii
... former , and an un- fhaken attachment , not merely profeffional , to the latter fyftem , could not fail of exciting and animating . While engaged in those enquiries , the fortunate arrival of the fecond volume of the Afiatic Researches ...
... former , and an un- fhaken attachment , not merely profeffional , to the latter fyftem , could not fail of exciting and animating . While engaged in those enquiries , the fortunate arrival of the fecond volume of the Afiatic Researches ...
Page xx
... former confisting , like that of Egypt and Greece , of twelve conftella- tions , fimilar in order and defignation , except in the figns Virgo and Gemini , and the lat- ter of twenty - seven , refembling the MANAZIL- AL - KAMAR of the ...
... former confisting , like that of Egypt and Greece , of twelve conftella- tions , fimilar in order and defignation , except in the figns Virgo and Gemini , and the lat- ter of twenty - seven , refembling the MANAZIL- AL - KAMAR of the ...
Page xxiv
... former part of the work I seemed to be under the neceffity of writing , not fo much the history of Hindoftan , AS THE HIS- TORY OF ASIA ITSELF , AND OF THE HUMAN RACE IN THEIR INFANT STATE . Without taking this enlarged retrospect of ...
... former part of the work I seemed to be under the neceffity of writing , not fo much the history of Hindoftan , AS THE HIS- TORY OF ASIA ITSELF , AND OF THE HUMAN RACE IN THEIR INFANT STATE . Without taking this enlarged retrospect of ...
Page xxxi
... former of which there is , in my opinion , a strong corroborative teftimony of that deluge which the Brahmins fo pe remptorily deny ever to have taken place in Hindoftan . It is in the fign Virgo , who , as Sir William Jones obferves on ...
... former of which there is , in my opinion , a strong corroborative teftimony of that deluge which the Brahmins fo pe remptorily deny ever to have taken place in Hindoftan . It is in the fign Virgo , who , as Sir William Jones obferves on ...
Page lii
... former may be seen in Mr. Knox's Elegant Extracts ; the latter never wandered beyond the circle of the subscribers . Indeed I cannot forbear stating a circumstance peculiarly họ- nourable to myself , and illuftrative , at once , of the ...
... former may be seen in Mr. Knox's Elegant Extracts ; the latter never wandered beyond the circle of the subscribers . Indeed I cannot forbear stating a circumstance peculiarly họ- nourable to myself , and illuftrative , at once , of the ...
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