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 xii
... probably first inhabited , will go far towards confuting the romantic ideas that have gone forth into the world , of the unfathomable antiquity of the Hindoos , and of the ark of Noah refting upon the Indian Caucafus , instead of mount ...
... probably first inhabited , will go far towards confuting the romantic ideas that have gone forth into the world , of the unfathomable antiquity of the Hindoos , and of the ark of Noah refting upon the Indian Caucafus , instead of mount ...
Page xiii
... probably , that prince was only one , though not the leaft formidable , among many tri- butary princes ; and the fubjugation of a province of that mighty empire was , with the ufual vanity of the Greeks , magnified into the conqueft of ...
... probably , that prince was only one , though not the leaft formidable , among many tri- butary princes ; and the fubjugation of a province of that mighty empire was , with the ufual vanity of the Greeks , magnified into the conqueft of ...
Page xxiv
... probably emanated ; and a comparison , which I have been enabled to make , of all the oriental zodiacs , folar and lunar , that could be procu- red by my researches into books of antiquity , fully corroboratesthe fyftem upon which I ...
... probably emanated ; and a comparison , which I have been enabled to make , of all the oriental zodiacs , folar and lunar , that could be procu- red by my researches into books of antiquity , fully corroboratesthe fyftem upon which I ...
Page xxvii
... probably the first de- lineated on the celestial sphere , appear to me to afford an illuftrative commentary upon , and to yield decifive teftimony to the truth of THE TEN FIRST CHAPTERS OF GENESIS . For in memorial of what other events ...
... probably the first de- lineated on the celestial sphere , appear to me to afford an illuftrative commentary upon , and to yield decifive teftimony to the truth of THE TEN FIRST CHAPTERS OF GENESIS . For in memorial of what other events ...
Page xxxiv
... probably learned in India , there is every reason to think that they were acquainted with sphe- rical trigonometry , and that fomething very much like the Newtonian system of attraction 匪 and and gravitation was known among them . In ...
... probably learned in India , there is every reason to think that they were acquainted with sphe- rical trigonometry , and that fomething very much like the Newtonian system of attraction 匪 and and gravitation was known among them . In ...
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