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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... Egyptians defignated their Thoth , or Hermes ; their reverence for the ANGUINUM , or fer- pent - egg , which is only the mundane egg of Tyre , rendered prolific by the embrace of the Ayatodayμav , or good genius , fymbolized by that ...
... Egyptians defignated their Thoth , or Hermes ; their reverence for the ANGUINUM , or fer- pent - egg , which is only the mundane egg of Tyre , rendered prolific by the embrace of the Ayatodayμav , or good genius , fymbolized by that ...
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... Egyptians , Indians , and Chinese , once in- habited the deferts of Siberia , and from the cold and barren region of SELINGINSKOI , in the fiftieth degree of north latitude , propa- gated throughout the world the firft rudi- ments of ...
... Egyptians , Indians , and Chinese , once in- habited the deferts of Siberia , and from the cold and barren region of SELINGINSKOI , in the fiftieth degree of north latitude , propa- gated throughout the world the firft rudi- ments of ...
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... Egyptians ; at leaft fuch is Stillingfleet's very rational con- jecture . * Surya , the Sun , that object of fu- ' preme reverence in India , has probably very near affinity to the Suria of the Chaldaic , a language which fome eminent ...
... Egyptians ; at leaft fuch is Stillingfleet's very rational con- jecture . * Surya , the Sun , that object of fu- ' preme reverence in India , has probably very near affinity to the Suria of the Chaldaic , a language which fome eminent ...
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... Egyptians , may be without violence derived from the Hebrew AUR , lux , or , if the reader pleases , from OR , gold . Adam , the great progenitor of mankind , in Sir William Jones's opinion , may be found in the Sanfcreet Adim , the ...
... Egyptians , may be without violence derived from the Hebrew AUR , lux , or , if the reader pleases , from OR , gold . Adam , the great progenitor of mankind , in Sir William Jones's opinion , may be found in the Sanfcreet Adim , the ...
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... Egyptian temples , as an eternal me- mento to revolving ages , that fuch a patriar- chal notion of a diftinction in the ... Egyptians in the elements of aftronomy , mufic , and letters ; and who , borrowed from the mythology of those ...
... Egyptian temples , as an eternal me- mento to revolving ages , that fuch a patriar- chal notion of a diftinction in the ... Egyptians in the elements of aftronomy , mufic , and letters ; and who , borrowed from the mythology of those ...
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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