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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... volumes of ASIATIC RESEARCHES , which have fucceff- fively arrived ( the laft only within a few months ) in this country , the ministry of which never did a more wife or prudent thing , than when they sent out the great orientalist ...
... volumes of ASIATIC RESEARCHES , which have fucceff- fively arrived ( the laft only within a few months ) in this country , the ministry of which never did a more wife or prudent thing , than when they sent out the great orientalist ...
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... volume of this ori- ental performance , treats rather of Moham- medan , than Indian manners ; of the arrange- ment of the court of Akber ; and of the eco- nomy of his houfhold . In the hiftory of that Emperor's reign it will be of ...
... volume of this ori- ental performance , treats rather of Moham- medan , than Indian manners ; of the arrange- ment of the court of Akber ; and of the eco- nomy of his houfhold . In the hiftory of that Emperor's reign it will be of ...
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... Volumes , and the invaluable fragments of Chaldæan History by Berofus , before me , with all that Bifhop Cum- berland ... volume , of the battles of the Indian SOORS and ASOORS , that is , the good and evil Genii , to the contests of the ...
... Volumes , and the invaluable fragments of Chaldæan History by Berofus , before me , with all that Bifhop Cum- berland ... volume , of the battles of the Indian SOORS and ASOORS , that is , the good and evil Genii , to the contests of the ...
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... volumes which will fucceffively folicit the attention of the indulgent public . Had there been any work at that time published , or had I known of any work intended to be publifhed , that promised to include the ancient and modern ...
... volumes which will fucceffively folicit the attention of the indulgent public . Had there been any work at that time published , or had I known of any work intended to be publifhed , that promised to include the ancient and modern ...
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... was returned , and forty fets of the Hiftory fubfcribed for . Both the Letter itself and the Answer are printed by way of Intro- duction to the first volume of the History itself . The 雇 t 2 The liberal conduct of the Directors , [ xiv ]
... was returned , and forty fets of the Hiftory fubfcribed for . Both the Letter itself and the Answer are printed by way of Intro- duction to the first volume of the History itself . The 雇 t 2 The liberal conduct of the Directors , [ xiv ]
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