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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... vast regions of Afia , were accompanied by the most active and vigorous perfonal exertions , of a fimilar kind , upon the spot - The TAAR - leaf , the papyrus , and even the infcribed vellum , will perish in a few revolving centuries ...
... vast regions of Afia , were accompanied by the most active and vigorous perfonal exertions , of a fimilar kind , upon the spot - The TAAR - leaf , the papyrus , and even the infcribed vellum , will perish in a few revolving centuries ...
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... and PROLIFIC wings , brooding over the vast abyss , rendered fertile the inert mass , while its vivifying breath infused the vital principle into the various claffes of animated nature . 85 95 100 105 ΠΟ 115 Emodus P a Arachotus.
... and PROLIFIC wings , brooding over the vast abyss , rendered fertile the inert mass , while its vivifying breath infused the vital principle into the various claffes of animated nature . 85 95 100 105 ΠΟ 115 Emodus P a Arachotus.
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... vast city of Canouge , or Kinoje , was at that time , and had been for many fucceffive centuries , the imperial refidence of its mo- narchs ; and hardly any fact SEEMED to admit of ftronger evidence than that which Mr. R. in the firft ...
... vast city of Canouge , or Kinoje , was at that time , and had been for many fucceffive centuries , the imperial refidence of its mo- narchs ; and hardly any fact SEEMED to admit of ftronger evidence than that which Mr. R. in the firft ...
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... vast surrounding district , was the celebrated metropolis of the Prafii . They were indeed frequently denominated from thence Palibothri , and their king Palibothrus ; and fo formidable were they in the field , that the foldiers of ...
... vast surrounding district , was the celebrated metropolis of the Prafii . They were indeed frequently denominated from thence Palibothri , and their king Palibothrus ; and fo formidable were they in the field , that the foldiers of ...
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... vast power and military forces of the reigning fovereigns of Palibothra we find par- ticular mention made in the hiftorians Diodo- rus Siculus , in Curtius , in Juftin , and Plu- tarch , from whofe accounts we should be led to think ...
... vast power and military forces of the reigning fovereigns of Palibothra we find par- ticular mention made in the hiftorians Diodo- rus Siculus , in Curtius , in Juftin , and Plu- tarch , from whofe accounts we should be led to think ...
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