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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Page 272
... TOLEMAI IVL peese 315 VG FEL With an ALTAR erected in BRITAIN to the TYRIAN HERCULES . To John Coakley - Settsom , MD . FR.S. and F.S.A.this Plate , emblematical of the most ancient superstition Asia is gratefully inscribed by.
... TOLEMAI IVL peese 315 VG FEL With an ALTAR erected in BRITAIN to the TYRIAN HERCULES . To John Coakley - Settsom , MD . FR.S. and F.S.A.this Plate , emblematical of the most ancient superstition Asia is gratefully inscribed by.
Page 279
... Asia , by the Greeks , a people fituated on its western limits , as was the result of the conquefts of Alexander in Perfia and India , the nations , inhabiting the shores of the Mediterranean and the Arabian Gulph , would , in all ...
... Asia , by the Greeks , a people fituated on its western limits , as was the result of the conquefts of Alexander in Perfia and India , the nations , inhabiting the shores of the Mediterranean and the Arabian Gulph , would , in all ...
Page 357
... Asia , the mufk of Thibet , and Siberian rhubarb ,. both the best of their kind in the world . It fhould not be forgotten , that the more north- ern provinces of Perfia itself , Hyrcania , Mar- giana , Bactria , were formerly full of ...
... Asia , the mufk of Thibet , and Siberian rhubarb ,. both the best of their kind in the world . It fhould not be forgotten , that the more north- ern provinces of Perfia itself , Hyrcania , Mar- giana , Bactria , were formerly full of ...
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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