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, the Widely-extended Commerce, and the Various Profound Literature, of Hindostan: Compared, Throughout, with the Religion, Laws, Government, and Literature, of Persia, Egypt, and Greece, the Whole Intended as Introductory to The History of Hindostan, Upon a Comprehensive Scale ...The Author, 1801 - India |
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... seems to be univerfally confeffed , by Jewish as well as Christian divines , that the doctrines of the true religion flourished un- violated till the ambitious Nimrod , or Belus , extending his dominion from Babylon through the ...
... seems to be univerfally confeffed , by Jewish as well as Christian divines , that the doctrines of the true religion flourished un- violated till the ambitious Nimrod , or Belus , extending his dominion from Babylon through the ...
Page 58
... seems to have been the principal amusement . The Nauruz , in India , is kept in imita tion of the Perfian feftival of that name ; and is celebrated after the following manner : A throne is erected four feet from the ground in the Durbar ...
... seems to have been the principal amusement . The Nauruz , in India , is kept in imita tion of the Perfian feftival of that name ; and is celebrated after the following manner : A throne is erected four feet from the ground in the Durbar ...
Page 122
... seems to have been erected to the Sun and the Elements , and in it , he informs us , Apollo , the deity of Claffernifs , was adored , The body of this temple confifts of twelve obelisks , or columns , placed circularly , about seven ...
... seems to have been erected to the Sun and the Elements , and in it , he informs us , Apollo , the deity of Claffernifs , was adored , The body of this temple confifts of twelve obelisks , or columns , placed circularly , about seven ...
Page 147
... seem that the northern temple had the pre - eminence , and was the more facred of the two : for , as the cove was the adytum of that temple , fo the whole northern temple may be efteemed as the adytum of the whole work , the southern ...
... seem that the northern temple had the pre - eminence , and was the more facred of the two : for , as the cove was the adytum of that temple , fo the whole northern temple may be efteemed as the adytum of the whole work , the southern ...
Page 180
... seem to have carried to wonderful per- fection for those periods ; moral philofophy , whofe fublime and awful precepts they in- ceffently inculcated on their difciples ; mufic , whose folemn melody , breathed from innu- merable harps ...
... seem to have carried to wonderful per- fection for those periods ; moral philofophy , whofe fublime and awful precepts they in- ceffently inculcated on their difciples ; mufic , whose folemn melody , breathed from innu- merable harps ...
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Abury æra afferted Afia Afiatic aftronomical againſt alfo alſo ancient antiquity Brahmins Britain Britiſh called Carthage Carthaginians celebrated circumftance coaft colonies commerce confiderable confifting Cornwall courſe cuftom dæmon defcendants defcribed deity diftant Diodorus Diodorus Siculus Druids Eaft Egypt Egyptians erected eſpecially eſtabliſhed extenfive facred fame fays fcience feems feftival ferpent ferved fhall fhips fhore fhould filk filver fince firft firſt fituated flouriſhed folar fome formed fpecies ftate ftill ftones fubject fuch fuperftition fuppofed fyftem fymbol Gaul gold Greeks Gulph Hercules Herodotus hiftory hypothefis immenfe India inftance iſland itſelf leaſt lefs metal moft moſt muft muſt nation navigation neceffary northern obferved old Britons paffage paffed Perfian period Phoenicians Pliny prefent purpoſe race refpect regions Reſearches rites Sabian Sanfcreet Scythian Sir William Jones Stonehenge Strabo Stukeley temple thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe thouſand tion Tyre uſed vafes vaft veffels weft weſtern whofe whoſe worſhip