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 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 11
Page
... A NEW PATH IN LITERATURE IS ATTEMPTED TO BE EXPLORED , ARE , WITH PROFOUND RESPECT , AND WITH BECOMING DIFFIDENCE , INSCRIBED BY THOMAS MAURICE . , " 3 SUBSCRIBER S. HONOURABLE THE DIRECTORS OF THE TO THE UNIVERSITY of OXFORD, ...
... A NEW PATH IN LITERATURE IS ATTEMPTED TO BE EXPLORED , ARE , WITH PROFOUND RESPECT , AND WITH BECOMING DIFFIDENCE , INSCRIBED BY THOMAS MAURICE . , " 3 SUBSCRIBER S. HONOURABLE THE DIRECTORS OF THE TO THE UNIVERSITY of OXFORD, ...
Page xi
... respect to that remote period , and those apparently fa- bulous events . I confider the whole as only a corruption of ancient Chaldæan history and traditions , and therefore have referred the incidents of the GREAT WAR re- corded in the ...
... respect to that remote period , and those apparently fa- bulous events . I confider the whole as only a corruption of ancient Chaldæan history and traditions , and therefore have referred the incidents of the GREAT WAR re- corded in the ...
Page xvii
... 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 founded on the [ xvii ]
... 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 founded on the [ xvii ]
Page xxv
... respect to the event itself , Mr. Bryant , in the fecond volume of his Ana- lyfis of Ancient Mythology , has offered very substantial arguments to evince that it never took place at all , and that the whole story originally arose from ...
... respect to the event itself , Mr. Bryant , in the fecond volume of his Ana- lyfis of Ancient Mythology , has offered very substantial arguments to evince that it never took place at all , and that the whole story originally arose from ...
Page xlii
... respect which I entertain for his writings and his virtues . Had his Historical Difquifition at all appeared to me to render unneceffary an undertaking , proposed to be conducted on a far more extensive scale , I should certainly have ...
... respect which I entertain for his writings and his virtues . Had his Historical Difquifition at all appeared to me to render unneceffary an undertaking , proposed to be conducted on a far more extensive scale , I should certainly have ...
Common terms and phrases
Abul Fazil Acbar afferted Afia Afiatic aftronomical againſt Agra alfo amidſt ancient antiquity Arrian Ayeen Akbery Bengal Berar called Canouge capital celebrated claffical cofe compofed confiderable courſe defcribed Delhi Differtation divifion eaft eaſt eaſtern empire engravings extenfive facred faid fame fays fcience fecond feems fhall fhould fimilar fince fircars firſt fituated folio fome foobah fouth fovereign ftill ftone ftream fubject fuch fuppofed Gangarides Ganges Gazna geographical greateſt hiftorian himſelf Hindoftan Hindoos hiſtory Imaus India Indus inveſtigation itſelf Lahore lefs Lond magnificent Malwa miles Mirkhond moft moſt mountains Multan muſt myſelf obfcure obferves occafion octavo paffed Perfian poffibly Porus prefent province Ptolemy quarto rajas reader refidence refpect reign Rennel reprefented Reſearches river Sanfcreet ſeemed Sir William Jones ſtate Strabo thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe thouſand Timur tion tranflated uſe vaft vaſt vols octavo vols quarto volume weft whofe whoſe writing