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, 1794 - India |
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Page 776
... race of Tartars , called Jakuthi , who are idolaters , and the most numerous people of all Siberia , adore in fact only one indivifible God under three different denominations , which , in their vernacular tongue , are AR- TUGON ...
... race of Tartars , called Jakuthi , who are idolaters , and the most numerous people of all Siberia , adore in fact only one indivifible God under three different denominations , which , in their vernacular tongue , are AR- TUGON ...
Page 779
... race and religious rites of Scandinavia , I have elsewhere endeavoured , by a chain of strong evidence , decifively to prove that their first celebrated god Oden , or Woden , was no other than the Taut of Phoenicia , the Hermes of Egypt ...
... race and religious rites of Scandinavia , I have elsewhere endeavoured , by a chain of strong evidence , decifively to prove that their first celebrated god Oden , or Woden , was no other than the Taut of Phoenicia , the Hermes of Egypt ...
Page 787
... race , wandering from the neighbourhood of Caucafus , and traversing the vast deserts of Afia , towards the north- eastern extremity , paffed over the chain of islands , now known to exift between the two continents , and contributed ...
... race , wandering from the neighbourhood of Caucafus , and traversing the vast deserts of Afia , towards the north- eastern extremity , paffed over the chain of islands , now known to exift between the two continents , and contributed ...
Page 788
... race of Tartars called MANCHEW , or , in the appellation of Mafateca , one of the four na- tions of New Spain ; and , in Maffachufeta , a people of New England , the ancient MAS- SAGETÆ , are discovered ; these are points on which ...
... race of Tartars called MANCHEW , or , in the appellation of Mafateca , one of the four na- tions of New Spain ; and , in Maffachufeta , a people of New England , the ancient MAS- SAGETÆ , are discovered ; these are points on which ...
Page 801
... race himself , instead of the venerable father of the regenerated world . If Mr. Bryant's hypothefis could be admit- ted , the eighteen thousand years , which he obferves are faid to have intervened between the reign of the first and ...
... race himself , instead of the venerable father of the regenerated world . If Mr. Bryant's hypothefis could be admit- ted , the eighteen thousand years , which he obferves are faid to have intervened between the reign of the first and ...
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affertion Afia Afiatic alfo Almai alſo altar amidſt ancient antiquity Apuleius Arrian aſtoniſhment Ayeen Akbery Brahma brahmins ceremony Chineſe Chriſtian confecrated confidered cuſtom dæmons dance darkneſs defcended deity deſcribed devotion divine doctrine dreadful earth Egypt eſtabliſhed exiſtence facred facrifice fame fays fecond fect feſtivals feven fevere fhall fhould fince fire firft firſt folemn fome fometimes foul fpirits ftate ftone fubject fuch fufferings fuperftition fymbol heaven herſelf himſelf Hindoo hiſtory idol India Indian inftance inveſtigation itſelf laſt leaſt leſs Lingam Mithra moſt muſt myfteries obferved occafion paffage paffed paffions pagoda Parmenides penance penitents Perfia perfons Pfyche philofopher Plato poffible Pooja Porphyry prefent prieſts purpoſe Pythagoras reader reaſon repreſented reſpect rites Sabian Saniaffi ſcarcely Seeva ſeveral ſhall ſhe Sir William Jones ſome ſtate ſtill ſyſtem temple thefe themſelves theology theſe thofe thoſe thouſand throne tion tolahs univerfal uſe vafe vaſt Veefhnu whofe whoſe worſhip Yogee