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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... King's Langley , Herts . John Theed , efq Charlotte - ftreet , Bedford - square Edward Toller , efq . Doctors ' - commons Alfred Tufton , esq . G. H. Tugwell , efq . Bath Tweddell , efq . Temple Uhthoff , efq . Bombay Rev. Henry Uhthoff ...
... King's Langley , Herts . John Theed , efq Charlotte - ftreet , Bedford - square Edward Toller , efq . Doctors ' - commons Alfred Tufton , esq . G. H. Tugwell , efq . Bath Tweddell , efq . Temple Uhthoff , efq . Bombay Rev. Henry Uhthoff ...
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... king- dom at their fervice , and , I might add , the public treasury alfo , at their command . The Atupendous fyftem of the BRAHMIN CHRO- NOLOGY , extending back through millions of years ; the obftinate denial of a GENERAL DELUGE by ...
... king- dom at their fervice , and , I might add , the public treasury alfo , at their command . The Atupendous fyftem of the BRAHMIN CHRO- NOLOGY , extending back through millions of years ; the obftinate denial of a GENERAL DELUGE by ...
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... kings , engage no inconfiderable part of these extended fpeculations : and that I have been , throughout , occupied in the al- ternate contemplation of objects the most magnificent in the circuit of nature ; * or , the * I wish ...
... kings , engage no inconfiderable part of these extended fpeculations : and that I have been , throughout , occupied in the al- ternate contemplation of objects the most magnificent in the circuit of nature ; * or , the * I wish ...
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... kings were the actors , and holy Brah- mins the admiring spectators ! There , doubt- lefs , the great God , and prophet RAM , has often fought over again his wonderful bat- tles with the giant Ravan ; and Creefhna has often sported , as ...
... kings were the actors , and holy Brah- mins the admiring spectators ! There , doubt- lefs , the great God , and prophet RAM , has often fought over again his wonderful bat- tles with the giant Ravan ; and Creefhna has often sported , as ...
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... kings , and found philofophy remains the glory of learned univerfities , and while both , ter- minating in an undeferved and ignominious end , can awake in mankind the figh of com- miferation - of Akber , the annals of whofe extended ...
... kings , and found philofophy remains the glory of learned univerfities , and while both , ter- minating in an undeferved and ignominious end , can awake in mankind the figh of com- miferation - of Akber , the annals of whofe extended ...
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