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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... RELIGION , LAWS , GOVERNMENT , COMMERCE , AND LITERATURE , OF PERSIA , EGYPT , AND GREECE . THE WHOLE Intended as Introductory to , and Illustrative of , THE HISTORY OF HINDOSTAN , UPON A COMPREHENSIVE SCALE , VOL . VI , Containing ...
... RELIGION , LAWS , GOVERNMENT , COMMERCE , AND LITERATURE , OF PERSIA , EGYPT , AND GREECE . THE WHOLE Intended as Introductory to , and Illustrative of , THE HISTORY OF HINDOSTAN , UPON A COMPREHENSIVE SCALE , VOL . VI , Containing ...
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... religion , which diffused their combined influence over every region of the Higher Afia , and many evident veftiges of which are ftill vifible . Among thefe are the Thibetian rolls infcribed with Sanfcreet characters , alluded to by Sir ...
... religion , which diffused their combined influence over every region of the Higher Afia , and many evident veftiges of which are ftill vifible . Among thefe are the Thibetian rolls infcribed with Sanfcreet characters , alluded to by Sir ...
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... religion began to be corrupted , but before its total corruption , by the Sabian idolatries . In this view the matter appears to myfelf ; if all my readers fhould not be equally convinced by the arguments which I have been able to ...
... religion began to be corrupted , but before its total corruption , by the Sabian idolatries . In this view the matter appears to myfelf ; if all my readers fhould not be equally convinced by the arguments which I have been able to ...
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... religion , and far lefs violent to nature . " From the aforefaid country , ( he means Siberia , rendered ha bitable and fertile by the equatorial line paffing through the centre of Afia , ) the Hin- doo religion probably spread over the ...
... religion , and far lefs violent to nature . " From the aforefaid country , ( he means Siberia , rendered ha bitable and fertile by the equatorial line paffing through the centre of Afia , ) the Hin- doo religion probably spread over the ...
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... WHICH THE RELIGIOUS RITES AND CEREMONIES , ANCIENTLY PRACTISED IN THE BRITISH ISLANDS , BORE TO THOSE OF THE ALIBRARY OF THE NIVERSITY OF VA VOL . VI . B THE GIFT OF BARNARD SHIPF 1 A DISSERTATION , & c . SECTION I. The ...
... WHICH THE RELIGIOUS RITES AND CEREMONIES , ANCIENTLY PRACTISED IN THE BRITISH ISLANDS , BORE TO THOSE OF THE ALIBRARY OF THE NIVERSITY OF VA VOL . VI . B THE GIFT OF BARNARD SHIPF 1 A DISSERTATION , & c . SECTION I. The ...
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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