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 33
... kind , are , for the moft part , uncovered , like Stonehenge ; that the priests of each nation were , during their folemn rites , arrayed in ftoles of virgin white , and , alike , wore that lofty tiara , which may be seen on the head of ...
... kind , are , for the moft part , uncovered , like Stonehenge ; that the priests of each nation were , during their folemn rites , arrayed in ftoles of virgin white , and , alike , wore that lofty tiara , which may be seen on the head of ...
Page 58
... kind of fair , like that holden at Venice during the carnival , and probably copied from this ancient Eaft- ern kind of festival , during the extenfive com- mercial intercourfe formerly carried on be tween the Venetians and India ...
... kind of fair , like that holden at Venice during the carnival , and probably copied from this ancient Eaft- ern kind of festival , during the extenfive com- mercial intercourfe formerly carried on be tween the Venetians and India ...
Page 81
... that the priests of BOODH , in Siam , a suppo- fed colony from Egypt , refided in a kind of * Ibid . p . 118 . + See the third volume , near the commencement . VOL . VI . G convent convent , confifting of many little cells , ran- ged [ 81 ]
... that the priests of BOODH , in Siam , a suppo- fed colony from Egypt , refided in a kind of * Ibid . p . 118 . + See the third volume , near the commencement . VOL . VI . G convent convent , confifting of many little cells , ran- ged [ 81 ]
Page 105
... kind of combustibles , they set fire to the huge coloffus . While the dreadful holocauft was offering to their fan- guinary gods , the groans and fhrieks of the confuming victims were drowned amidst fhouts fhouts of barbarous triumph ...
... kind of combustibles , they set fire to the huge coloffus . While the dreadful holocauft was offering to their fan- guinary gods , the groans and fhrieks of the confuming victims were drowned amidst fhouts fhouts of barbarous triumph ...
Page 109
... kind were ternary , which are the true Eguaia of antiquity , or symbols of the god Mercury , confifting of two large ftones , placed erect , with one laid across their fum- mits . Thofe huge coloffal ftones near Kennet in Oxfordshire ...
... kind were ternary , which are the true Eguaia of antiquity , or symbols of the god Mercury , confifting of two large ftones , placed erect , with one laid across their fum- mits . Thofe huge coloffal ftones near Kennet in Oxfordshire ...
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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