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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... reader will find in the following fheets , fo correct an abridgment as cannot fail highly to gratify his curiofity , and cannot injure the tranflator , who , I heard with regret from his London bookfeller , is no more ! Of the third ...
... reader will find in the following fheets , fo correct an abridgment as cannot fail highly to gratify his curiofity , and cannot injure the tranflator , who , I heard with regret from his London bookfeller , is no more ! Of the third ...
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... reader , will , I truft , find the dark period and events 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 ...
... reader , will , I truft , find the dark period and events 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 ...
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... reader a comprehensive view of the wonderful tranf- actions performed , during the period of near four thousand years , on that grand theatre , I fhould never have ventured upon an under- taking at once fo arduous , and fo hazardous ...
... reader a comprehensive view of the wonderful tranf- actions performed , during the period of near four thousand years , on that grand theatre , I fhould never have ventured upon an under- taking at once fo arduous , and fo hazardous ...
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... reader that I knew not , at the time , the full extent and magnitude of the undertaking in which I had embarked . At my very entrance into the grand hiftoric field , through the whole ample circuit of which it became necessary for me to ...
... reader that I knew not , at the time , the full extent and magnitude of the undertaking in which I had embarked . At my very entrance into the grand hiftoric field , through the whole ample circuit of which it became necessary for me to ...
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... reader , it would be necessary to engage in the deepest af- tronomical fpeculations of the oriental world , yet , as I advanced in my enquiries , I found . that kind of knowledge to be indispensable ; for , in fact , the primeval ...
... reader , it would be necessary to engage in the deepest af- tronomical fpeculations of the oriental world , yet , as I advanced in my enquiries , I found . that kind of knowledge to be indispensable ; for , in fact , the primeval ...
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