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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... himself anciently gave a Perfian verfion , not being , as yet , in the possession of the public , I can only , for the present , submit to that public the epitome of its contents which is prefixed to Ferifhtah's Hiftory of Hindostan ...
... himself anciently gave a Perfian verfion , not being , as yet , in the possession of the public , I can only , for the present , submit to that public the epitome of its contents which is prefixed to Ferifhtah's Hiftory of Hindostan ...
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... 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 viciniâ , poetæ fabulati Oriona fuifle venationis venationis ftudiofum ...
... 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 viciniâ , poetæ fabulati Oriona fuifle venationis venationis ftudiofum ...
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... himself , the only true Janus Bifrons of the ancient world ; and the three Steps of Veefhnu , which form another of these man- fions , do to fome forgotten notions of the true Trinity ; a subject which the reader will find fo largely ...
... himself , the only true Janus Bifrons of the ancient world ; and the three Steps of Veefhnu , which form another of these man- fions , do to fome forgotten notions of the true Trinity ; a subject which the reader will find fo largely ...
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... himself and Mr. Wilkins have obliged the public , from the Sanfcreet , and fuch as Pocock , Golius , and Greaves , have given us of Persian and Arabian histo- rians , can be procured , who is there that would waste the vigour of life in ...
... himself and Mr. Wilkins have obliged the public , from the Sanfcreet , and fuch as Pocock , Golius , and Greaves , have given us of Persian and Arabian histo- rians , can be procured , who is there that would waste the vigour of life in ...
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... himself informed me , followed the orthogra- phical instructions of the late Major Davy , Persian Translator to Mr. Haftings , feemed to be the most certain guide . But to Major Davy's fyftem , I afterwards found material objections ...
... himself informed me , followed the orthogra- phical instructions of the late Major Davy , Persian Translator to Mr. Haftings , feemed to be the most certain guide . But to Major Davy's fyftem , I afterwards found material objections ...
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