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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... writer , feems firft to have confidered it as the cradle of our fpecies , and to have fup- ported an opinion , that the whole ancient world was enlightened by fciences brought from the most northern parts of Scythia , par- ticularly ...
... writer , feems firft to have confidered it as the cradle of our fpecies , and to have fup- ported an opinion , that the whole ancient world was enlightened by fciences brought from the most northern parts of Scythia , par- ticularly ...
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... writers confeffes , had before been like an incurable distemper , and their minds clouded with ignorance . Thus alfo the Mancheu monarchs of China have been patrons of the learned and ingeni- ous ; 1 ous ; and the Emperor TIENLONG is ...
... writers confeffes , had before been like an incurable distemper , and their minds clouded with ignorance . Thus alfo the Mancheu monarchs of China have been patrons of the learned and ingeni- ous ; 1 ous ; and the Emperor TIENLONG is ...
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... writers , Camden and Bochart , have advanced very oppofite opinions . Op- pofite , however , as thefe opinions apparently are , they may both have for their fupport a certain degree of truth . Camden contends , that Britain was fo ...
... writers , Camden and Bochart , have advanced very oppofite opinions . Op- pofite , however , as thefe opinions apparently are , they may both have for their fupport a certain degree of truth . Camden contends , that Britain was fo ...
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... writer , is the coun- try of the Brith , or painted people , from which circumftance , probably , in fucceeding times , the fame nation came to be denomi- nated by the Romans , who tranflated the term , Picti , the Picts , or painted ...
... writer , is the coun- try of the Brith , or painted people , from which circumftance , probably , in fucceeding times , the fame nation came to be denomi- nated by the Romans , who tranflated the term , Picti , the Picts , or painted ...
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... writers , whofe indefatigable refearches have made us beft acquainted with that wonderful and fecluded race of men . But let us here take a fhort retrospective view of the gradual lapfe of mankind from the fublime purity of the primeval ...
... writers , whofe indefatigable refearches have made us beft acquainted with that wonderful and fecluded race of men . But let us here take a fhort retrospective view of the gradual lapfe of mankind from the fublime purity of the primeval ...
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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