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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... Britain , I have selected the venerable Order of Druids , their doctrines , and rites , which have fuch an immediate and wonderful affinity with those of the Brahmins ; and the ancient commerce of the Phoenicians , Carthaginians , and ...
... Britain , I have selected the venerable Order of Druids , their doctrines , and rites , which have fuch an immediate and wonderful affinity with those of the Brahmins ; and the ancient commerce of the Phoenicians , Carthaginians , and ...
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... Britain with India , as may prove at once gratifying to the fcholar and useful to the merchant . The Afiatic origin of the Druids has long been an acknowledged point in the world of antiquaries . Mr. Reuben Burrow , the great practical ...
... Britain with India , as may prove at once gratifying to the fcholar and useful to the merchant . The Afiatic origin of the Druids has long been an acknowledged point in the world of antiquaries . Mr. Reuben Burrow , the great practical ...
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... Britain : all these circumftances enumerated , and fully difcuffed in the course of the Differtation alluded to , are to myself abundant teftimony of their connection with , if not descent from , Buddha . Under this appellation I ...
... Britain : all these circumftances enumerated , and fully difcuffed in the course of the Differtation alluded to , are to myself abundant teftimony of their connection with , if not descent from , Buddha . Under this appellation I ...
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... Britain as in Afia ; for Toland , in his Hiftory of the Druids , ( and the fact has been fince confirmed to me by intelligent natives , as well of South as North Britain , ) tells us , that the fires which flamed on May - eve at the top ...
... Britain as in Afia ; for Toland , in his Hiftory of the Druids , ( and the fact has been fince confirmed to me by intelligent natives , as well of South as North Britain , ) tells us , that the fires which flamed on May - eve at the top ...
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... Britain , and confine our inquiry to the ancient name of these islands , a fubject concerning which two very celebrated writers , Camden and Bochart , have advanced very oppofite opinions . Op- pofite , however , as thefe opinions ...
... Britain , and confine our inquiry to the ancient name of these islands , a fubject concerning which two very celebrated writers , Camden and Bochart , have advanced very oppofite opinions . Op- pofite , however , as thefe opinions ...
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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