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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... Most Noble the Marquis of Abercorn Moft Noble the Marquis of Blandford Right Hon . the Countess of Leicester 40 Setts Right Hon . the Countess of Strathmore 3 Setts Right Hon . the Earl of Dartmouth Right Hon . the Earl of Inchiquin ...
... Most Noble the Marquis of Abercorn Moft Noble the Marquis of Blandford Right Hon . the Countess of Leicester 40 Setts Right Hon . the Countess of Strathmore 3 Setts Right Hon . the Earl of Dartmouth Right Hon . the Earl of Inchiquin ...
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... wonderful and remote race of men . The light which so strongly radiates from the page of claffical antiquity upon most other abftruse points of literary re- fearch search , caft but a glimmering ray on this ob- [ ii ]
... wonderful and remote race of men . The light which so strongly radiates from the page of claffical antiquity upon most other abftruse points of literary re- fearch search , caft but a glimmering ray on this ob- [ ii ]
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... most ancient Sanfcreet treatises on the subject . The Code bears indeed ftrong internal evidence of the most profound antiquity , and in general by the investigator of the policy , and manners , of oriental nations , as well as in ...
... most ancient Sanfcreet treatises on the subject . The Code bears indeed ftrong internal evidence of the most profound antiquity , and in general by the investigator of the policy , and manners , of oriental nations , as well as in ...
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... most beautiful , if not the most ancient collection of apologues in the world , " was originally written in Sanfcreet , about eleven hundred years ago , by a venerable Brahmin of the name of Veeshnu - Sarma . So highly has the ...
... most beautiful , if not the most ancient collection of apologues in the world , " was originally written in Sanfcreet , about eleven hundred years ago , by a venerable Brahmin of the name of Veeshnu - Sarma . So highly has the ...
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... most active and vigorous perfonal exertions , of a fimilar kind , upon the spot - The TAAR - leaf , the papyrus , and even the infcribed vellum , will perish in a few revolving centuries ; but the the engraved tablet of copper , or ...
... most active and vigorous perfonal exertions , of a fimilar kind , upon the spot - The TAAR - leaf , the papyrus , and even the infcribed vellum , will perish in a few revolving centuries ; but the the engraved tablet of copper , or ...
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