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 vii
... INDIA ; and as none , I prefume , can be more grati- fying to the general clafs of my readers than thofe that equally concern India and Britain , I have selected the venerable Order of Druids , their doctrines , and rites , which have ...
... INDIA ; and as none , I prefume , can be more grati- fying to the general clafs of my readers than thofe that equally concern India and Britain , I have selected the venerable Order of Druids , their doctrines , and rites , which have ...
Page viii
... India Directors , for their liberal patronage of the Hiftory of Hindoftan , my anxious defire to make this work effentially ufeful to gentlemen going out in a commercial capacity to India , and the important circumstance of the revival ...
... India Directors , for their liberal patronage of the Hiftory of Hindoftan , my anxious defire to make this work effentially ufeful to gentlemen going out in a commercial capacity to India , and the important circumstance of the revival ...
Page ix
... Indian extraction is , that the elder Buddha of India , who fhould never be confounded with the fecond Buddha , or Bedou , the Fo of the Chinese , and the founder of an atheistical fect , in periods far more recent , is , in fact , the ...
... Indian extraction is , that the elder Buddha of India , who fhould never be confounded with the fecond Buddha , or Bedou , the Fo of the Chinese , and the founder of an atheistical fect , in periods far more recent , is , in fact , the ...
Page xi
... India , from the banks of the Ganges and the most diftant provinces of the Penin- fula , to the territories of the ... Indian empire and fyftem of jurif See the Preface to Mr. Halhed's Sanfcreet Grammar , p . 5 . prudence prudence which ...
... India , from the banks of the Ganges and the most diftant provinces of the Penin- fula , to the territories of the ... Indian empire and fyftem of jurif See the Preface to Mr. Halhed's Sanfcreet Grammar , p . 5 . prudence prudence which ...
Page xiv
... India , with Chaucer's de- fcription of one , and found them to agree to- gether most minutely ; even the centre - pin , which Chaucer calls the horfe , " having a horfe's head upon the inftrument : " and , after acquainting us that he ...
... India , with Chaucer's de- fcription of one , and found them to agree to- gether most minutely ; even the centre - pin , which Chaucer calls the horfe , " having a horfe's head upon the inftrument : " and , after acquainting us that he ...
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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