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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... these volumes any fubject intimately connected with the ANTIQUITIES OF 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 ...
... these volumes any fubject intimately connected with the ANTIQUITIES OF 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 ...
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... These two mighty Na- tions , the Indians and Perfians being through- out confidered as one People , possessed the greater Part of Afa : the Indians , from the earliest Periods , a polished Race ; the Scy- thians , ever Barbarians ...
... These two mighty Na- tions , the Indians and Perfians being through- out confidered as one People , possessed the greater Part of Afa : the Indians , from the earliest Periods , a polished Race ; the Scy- thians , ever Barbarians ...
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... these , during that pe- riod of the Indian empire when its limits were moft extended in Afia , mingling with the Celto - Scythian tribes , who tenanted the im- menfe deferts of Grand Tartary , became gra- dually incorporated , though ...
... these , during that pe- riod of the Indian empire when its limits were moft extended in Afia , mingling with the Celto - Scythian tribes , who tenanted the im- menfe deferts of Grand Tartary , became gra- dually incorporated , though ...
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... flourishing among them are clear- ly to be traced , notwithstanding the boasted * See the very elegant and learned preface to that Grammar , P. 5 : B 4 discoveries difcoveries of fome eminent modern antiqua- ries . Among these 7] ...
... flourishing among them are clear- ly to be traced , notwithstanding the boasted * See the very elegant and learned preface to that Grammar , P. 5 : B 4 discoveries difcoveries of fome eminent modern antiqua- ries . Among these 7] ...
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... these , ftands foremost the cele- brated M. Bailli , who endeavours to prove , in a treatise On the Origin of the Sciences in Afia , that a nation of profound wisdom , of elevated genius , and of antiquity far fuperior even to the ...
... these , ftands foremost the cele- brated M. Bailli , who endeavours to prove , in a treatise On the Origin of the Sciences in Afia , that a nation of profound wisdom , of elevated genius , and of antiquity far fuperior even to 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