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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... four and five thousand years ago , will , of themselves , go . far towards proving these af- fertions concerning their identity , and their having originated from one common stock . A celebrated grammarian has remarked , Nec modo ...
... four and five thousand years ago , will , of themselves , go . far towards proving these af- fertions concerning their identity , and their having originated from one common stock . A celebrated grammarian has remarked , Nec modo ...
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... four great cafts into which the na- tion was divided , are probably their immediate defcendants . It has also been obferved , that the refidence of the Cuthæi was in the high northern latitudes of India , where , in fact , Alexander ...
... four great cafts into which the na- tion was divided , are probably their immediate defcendants . It has also been obferved , that the refidence of the Cuthæi was in the high northern latitudes of India , where , in fact , Alexander ...
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... four feet from the ground in the Durbar court ; from the back whereof to the place where the king comes out , a fquare of fifty - fix paces in length , and forty - three in breadth , is railed in , and covered with fair canopies of ...
... four feet from the ground in the Durbar court ; from the back whereof to the place where the king comes out , a fquare of fifty - fix paces in length , and forty - three in breadth , is railed in , and covered with fair canopies of ...
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... four pillars , and covered with cloth of gold . About the edge , over head , like a va- lence , was a net fringe of good pearl , from which hung down pomegranates , apples , pears , and fuch fruit of gold , but hollow . Within it , the ...
... four pillars , and covered with cloth of gold . About the edge , over head , like a va- lence , was a net fringe of good pearl , from which hung down pomegranates , apples , pears , and fuch fruit of gold , but hollow . Within it , the ...
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... four horfes , which were trap- ped and harneffed in gold velvets . This was the firft coach he ever fat in , made by that sent out of England , so like that I knew it not but by the cover , which was a Perfian gold velvet . He fat at ...
... four horfes , which were trap- ped and harneffed in gold velvets . This was the firft coach he ever fat in , made by that sent out of England , so like that I knew it not but by the cover , which was a Perfian gold velvet . He fat at ...
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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