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 vi
... used as a fort of commentary to rectify what was falfe , or elu- cidate what was obfcure in Diodorus Siculus , Herodotus , Strabo , Philoftratus , and Pliny ; and I trust the following pages , in which their relations are contrafted ...
... used as a fort of commentary to rectify what was falfe , or elu- cidate what was obfcure in Diodorus Siculus , Herodotus , Strabo , Philoftratus , and Pliny ; and I trust the following pages , in which their relations are contrafted ...
Page xxxii
... used in their temples , and Indian tabors , afford additional proof of this assertion . One how- ever of the afterisms of that zodiac is not fo peculiarly Indian , fince we find among the number , an oblation to the gods , noticed be ...
... used in their temples , and Indian tabors , afford additional proof of this assertion . One how- ever of the afterisms of that zodiac is not fo peculiarly Indian , fince we find among the number , an oblation to the gods , noticed be ...
Page lix
... used the mode of orthography adopted by Major Rennel , who is undoubtedly the best judge . of what , in that refpect , is most proper . I fay , in the Geographical Differta- tion , for the most part , because in abridg- ing the ...
... used the mode of orthography adopted by Major Rennel , who is undoubtedly the best judge . of what , in that refpect , is most proper . I fay , in the Geographical Differta- tion , for the most part , because in abridg- ing the ...
Page xcvi
... used , I would be understood to mean , the offence in its mildeft fignification , for he who worships God , BEFORE AN IDOL , IS AN IDOLATER . When the Jews , in the defert , exalted on high the APIs of Egypt , they did not fuppofe that ...
... used , I would be understood to mean , the offence in its mildeft fignification , for he who worships God , BEFORE AN IDOL , IS AN IDOLATER . When the Jews , in the defert , exalted on high the APIs of Egypt , they did not fuppofe that ...
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... used as general terms , to fignify any remote uncivilized country : and in this fenfe Virgil is to be understood in the fixth Æneid ' , where Æneas in the fhades is informed of the future glory of Auguftus , and that ! -Super et ...
... used as general terms , to fignify any remote uncivilized country : and in this fenfe Virgil is to be understood in the fixth Æneid ' , where Æneas in the fhades is informed of the future glory of Auguftus , and that ! -Super et ...
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