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 ix
... length , by the favour of Samuel Johnson Efq . of the India House , obtained it , I have amply profited by that gentleman's fpontane- ous kindness . The firft volume of this ori- ental performance , treats rather of Moham- medan , than ...
... length , by the favour of Samuel Johnson Efq . of the India House , obtained it , I have amply profited by that gentleman's fpontane- ous kindness . The firft volume of this ori- ental performance , treats rather of Moham- medan , than ...
Page xxii
... hereafter , have occafion to cite this curious paffage of Dr. Rutherforth more at length . It is in the second volume of the Quarto Edition , page 850 , Cambridge , 1748 . the the season of the harvest . Such , in fact [ xxii ]
... hereafter , have occafion to cite this curious paffage of Dr. Rutherforth more at length . It is in the second volume of the Quarto Edition , page 850 , Cambridge , 1748 . the the season of the harvest . Such , in fact [ xxii ]
Page lxxxvi
... length of the center face , alone , is five feet ; while the breadth , between the fhoulders , ex- pands to the enormous amount of near twenty feet . Even the relation of these dimenfions in company , particularly , of those of the ...
... length of the center face , alone , is five feet ; while the breadth , between the fhoulders , ex- pands to the enormous amount of near twenty feet . Even the relation of these dimenfions in company , particularly , of those of the ...
Page cxviii
... of the pale of the Jewish church , whofe judgment on this point will , hereafter , be inserted at length : and it is likewise 1 likewise preserved in that curious repofitory of oriental antiquities , ( cxviii ) ト ...
... of the pale of the Jewish church , whofe judgment on this point will , hereafter , be inserted at length : and it is likewise 1 likewise preserved in that curious repofitory of oriental antiquities , ( cxviii ) ト ...
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... length , together with that river , rolls into the Indus at Multan . It seems to have been the boundary be- tween the kingdom of Taxilus , and that moft formidable of Indian warriors the renowned Porus .。 Ayeen Akbery , vol . ii , p ...
... length , together with that river , rolls into the Indus at Multan . It seems to have been the boundary be- tween the kingdom of Taxilus , and that moft formidable of Indian warriors the renowned Porus .。 Ayeen Akbery , vol . ii , p ...
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