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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... to which that voluminous detail bears reference , as fatisfactorily elucidated , as I flatter myself he will the obfcure history of the AVATARS themselves , or the ten defcents of er 1 of Veefhnu . During these enquries into the [ x ]
... to which that voluminous detail bears reference , as fatisfactorily elucidated , as I flatter myself he will the obfcure history of the AVATARS themselves , or the ten defcents of er 1 of Veefhnu . During these enquries into the [ x ]
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... myself , required the united efforts of fome confiderable literary fociety , combining a splendid affemblage of genius and erudition , and embodied for the purpose , with every public library in the king- dom at their fervice , and , I ...
... myself , required the united efforts of fome confiderable literary fociety , combining a splendid affemblage of genius and erudition , and embodied for the purpose , with every public library in the king- dom at their fervice , and , I ...
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... myself exceedingly ill repaid for literary toil , which coft me many nights of painful vigil , and which , from the intenfe application I was compelled to bestow upon the subject , mate- rially injured my health . It was an attentive ...
... myself exceedingly ill repaid for literary toil , which coft me many nights of painful vigil , and which , from the intenfe application I was compelled to bestow upon the subject , mate- rially injured my health . It was an attentive ...
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... myself , conscious that I had by con- tinued enquiry , by extenfive reading , and intenfe intense application , endeavoured to prepare myself for the important [ xxxviii ]
... myself , conscious that I had by con- tinued enquiry , by extenfive reading , and intenfe intense application , endeavoured to prepare myself for the important [ xxxviii ]
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... myself for the important task in which I had engaged , I too eagerly indulged those fanguine expectations of fuccefs , which were entertained by the private circle of my friends . Enjoying from nature a very am- ple portion of those ...
... myself for the important task in which I had engaged , I too eagerly indulged those fanguine expectations of fuccefs , which were entertained by the private circle of my friends . Enjoying from nature a very am- ple portion of those ...
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