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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... those Noblemen and Gentlemen , who may be inclined to extend their patronage to this infant work , will please to transmit their commands to Mr. Elmfley , Mr. Richardfon , or the Author , at his refidence , No. 126 , Great Russell ...
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... those translations , however , it has fuffered much mutilation , as well as confider- able distortion in its primitive feature of fim- plicity ; and it is only in Mr. Wilkins's almost literal version that we fee the faithful por ...
... those translations , however , it has fuffered much mutilation , as well as confider- able distortion in its primitive feature of fim- plicity ; and it is only in Mr. Wilkins's almost literal version that we fee the faithful por ...
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... those Afiatic provinces , the prevailing lan- guages and manners of which were fo fami- liarly known to him . The early efforts of that Society were crowned with fignal fuccefs . The buried tablet has been dug from the bow- els of the ...
... those Afiatic provinces , the prevailing lan- guages and manners of which were fo fami- liarly known to him . The early efforts of that Society were crowned with fignal fuccefs . The buried tablet has been dug from the bow- els of the ...
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... those precious remains throw upon the claffic page , that the footsteps of the hif- torian must be guided , and his path through the obfcure maze of antiquity illumined . Abul Fazel , the learned Secretary of Ak- ber , the most ...
... those precious remains throw upon the claffic page , that the footsteps of the hif- torian must be guided , and his path through the obfcure maze of antiquity illumined . Abul Fazel , the learned Secretary of Ak- ber , the most ...
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... those nations ; I truft I shall not be thought presumptuous for offering a decifive opinion with respect to that remote period , and those apparently fa- bulous events . I confider the whole as only a corruption of ancient Chaldæan ...
... those nations ; I truft I shall not be thought presumptuous for offering a decifive opinion with respect to that remote period , and those apparently fa- bulous events . I confider the whole as only a corruption of ancient Chaldæan ...
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