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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... language of the country , and the grand repo- fitory of all its history and sciences ; but un- fortunately , at that period , there were only three gentlemen who were fuppofed to be thoroughly acquainted with it , viz . Sir W. Jones ...
... language of the country , and the grand repo- fitory of all its history and sciences ; but un- fortunately , at that period , there were only three gentlemen who were fuppofed to be thoroughly acquainted with it , viz . Sir W. Jones ...
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... languages of Europe and Afia . In those translations , however , it has fuffered much mutilation , as well as confider- able distortion in its primitive feature of fim- plicity ; and it is only in Mr. Wilkins's almost literal version ...
... languages of Europe and Afia . In those translations , however , it has fuffered much mutilation , as well as confider- able distortion in its primitive feature of fim- plicity ; and it is only in Mr. Wilkins's almost literal version ...
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... languages of Chaldĉa and India not to be greatly diffimilar ; that the name ADAM may be traced to the Sanscreet root , ADIM , or the firft ; that in the prophetic and regal title of MENU of India , may be re cognized the patriarch Noah ...
... languages of Chaldĉa and India not to be greatly diffimilar ; that the name ADAM may be traced to the Sanscreet root , ADIM , or the firft ; that in the prophetic and regal title of MENU of India , may be re cognized the patriarch Noah ...
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... recorded . Had Mr. Bryant more frequently directed his atten- tion to that Perfian and Arabian literature which Mr. Richardfon , in his differtation on e the the languages , literature , and manners of Eastern Nations [ XXV ]
... recorded . Had Mr. Bryant more frequently directed his atten- tion to that Perfian and Arabian literature which Mr. Richardfon , in his differtation on e the the languages , literature , and manners of Eastern Nations [ XXV ]
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... languages , literature , and manners of Eastern Nations , seems to think he treated with too much contempt , he might have derived a furprising support to his affertions from many of their aftronomical productions . For in- ftance , in ...
... languages , literature , and manners of Eastern Nations , seems to think he treated with too much contempt , he might have derived a furprising support to his affertions from many of their aftronomical productions . For in- ftance , in ...
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