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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... nature , that so small a lift can by no means be suffi- cient for the proper and spirited execution of it , according to the plan of which this vo- lume exhibits a fpecimen . The author there- fore , in the hope that when more publicly ...
... nature , that so small a lift can by no means be suffi- cient for the proper and spirited execution of it , according to the plan of which this vo- lume exhibits a fpecimen . The author there- fore , in the hope that when more publicly ...
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... natural transition , to an attentive confideration of the Hiftory , the Philofophy , and Literature , of this wonderful and remote race of men . The light which so strongly radiates from the page of claffical antiquity upon most other ...
... natural transition , to an attentive confideration of the Hiftory , the Philofophy , and Literature , of this wonderful and remote race of men . The light which so strongly radiates from the page of claffical antiquity upon most other ...
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... nature , and more momentous re- fearch . The daring affertions of certain scep- tical French philofophers with respect to the Age of the World , whofe arguments I have attempted - d • 1 attempted to refute , arguments principally ...
... nature , and more momentous re- fearch . The daring affertions of certain scep- tical French philofophers with respect to the Age of the World , whofe arguments I have attempted - d • 1 attempted to refute , arguments principally ...
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... nature widely different ; that the whole jargon of the YUGsorgrand periods , and confequently all those presumptuous affertions of the Brah- mins , relative to the earth's antiquity , have no foundation but in the great folar and lunar ...
... nature widely different ; that the whole jargon of the YUGsorgrand periods , and confequently all those presumptuous affertions of the Brah- mins , relative to the earth's antiquity , have no foundation but in the great folar and lunar ...
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... nature equally curious and remote from common investigation . If it happen that Cri- ticifm fhould point any fevere ftrictures on that portion of my work , I fhall think myself exceedingly ill repaid for literary toil , which coft me ...
... nature equally curious and remote from common investigation . If it happen that Cri- ticifm fhould point any fevere ftrictures on that portion of my work , I fhall think myself exceedingly ill repaid for literary toil , which coft me ...
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