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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... 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 , with the various differtations on the fubject , of Sir William Jones ...
... 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 , with the various differtations on the fubject , of Sir William Jones ...
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... not from the vigorous prosecution of it . I felt that the active spark of honest am- bition , enkindled in my mind , was far from being extinguished ; nor was I entirely de- ferted ans ; the proceedings of the latter , except in [ xlii ]
... not from the vigorous prosecution of it . I felt that the active spark of honest am- bition , enkindled in my mind , was far from being extinguished ; nor was I entirely de- ferted ans ; the proceedings of the latter , except in [ xlii ]
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... latter , except in the inftance of a few daring and un- principled individuals , whofe extortions no incorporated aflembly of merchants , how- ever inflexibly virtuous themselves , can ever wholly prevent , have appeared to me to be by ...
... latter , except in the inftance of a few daring and un- principled individuals , whofe extortions no incorporated aflembly of merchants , how- ever inflexibly virtuous themselves , can ever wholly prevent , have appeared to me to be by ...
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... 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 natural goodness of his heart : at my entrance into ...
... 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 natural goodness of his heart : at my entrance into ...
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... latter gentlemen , will be exhibited to the reader , in the Differtation on the LITERA- TURE of the Hindoos . In the geographical differtation for the moft part , and through- out the whole of my hiftory , when names of places occur , I ...
... latter gentlemen , will be exhibited to the reader , in the Differtation on the LITERA- TURE of the Hindoos . In the geographical differtation for the moft part , and through- out the whole of my hiftory , when names of places occur , I ...
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