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 and Profound Literature of Hindostan : Compared, Throughout, with the Religion, Laws, Government, and Literature, of Persia, Egypt and Greece...H. L.Galabin, 1801 |
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... Sciences throughout Afia.- The geographical Limits of the not lefs extenfive Region of Scythia . - Thefe two mighty Na- tions , the Indians and Perfians being through- out confidered as one People , poffeffed the greater Part of Afia ...
... Sciences throughout Afia.- The geographical Limits of the not lefs extenfive Region of Scythia . - Thefe two mighty Na- tions , the Indians and Perfians being through- out confidered as one People , poffeffed the greater Part of Afia ...
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... sciences flourishing among them are clear- ly to be traced , notwithstanding the boafted * See the very elegant and learned preface to that Grammar , P. 5 . B 4 difcoveries > • discoveries of fome eminent modern antiqua- ries . Among [ 7 ]
... sciences flourishing among them are clear- ly to be traced , notwithstanding the boafted * See the very elegant and learned preface to that Grammar , P. 5 . B 4 difcoveries > • discoveries of fome eminent modern antiqua- ries . Among [ 7 ]
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... Sciences in Afia , that a nation of profound wisdom , of elevated genius , and of antiquity far fuperior even to the Egyptians , Indians , and Chinese , once in- habited the deserts of Siberia , and from the cold and barren region of ...
... Sciences in Afia , that a nation of profound wisdom , of elevated genius , and of antiquity far fuperior even to the Egyptians , Indians , and Chinese , once in- habited the deserts of Siberia , and from the cold and barren region of ...
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... science and art . " - Sir W. Jones's Effay on the Tartars , in Afiatic Researches , vol . ii . p . 223 . Thus far Sir W. Jones , who investigated this argument of M. Bailli in a region of Afia not very remote from the ancient refidence ...
... science and art . " - Sir W. Jones's Effay on the Tartars , in Afiatic Researches , vol . ii . p . 223 . Thus far Sir W. Jones , who investigated this argument of M. Bailli in a region of Afia not very remote from the ancient refidence ...
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... science and without even the advantage of a written language , though the dialects spoken among them were almost as numerous as their tribes , we are favoured with the fol- lowing important intelligence , fo directly elu- cidatory as ...
... science and without even the advantage of a written language , though the dialects spoken among them were almost as numerous as their tribes , we are favoured with the fol- lowing important intelligence , fo directly elu- cidatory as ...
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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 cuſtom dæmon defcribed deity diftant Diodorus Diodorus Siculus Druids Eaft Egypt Egyptians erected eſtabliſhed extenfive facred fame fays feems feftival fent ferpent ferved fhall fhips fhore fhould filk filver fince firft firſt fituated flouriſhed folar fome formed fpecies ftate ftill ftones fubject fuch fuperftition fuppofed fymbol Gaul gold Greeks Gulph Hercules Herodotus hiftory immenfe India inftance iſland itſelf leaſt lefs leſs metal moft moſt muft muſt nation navigation neceffary northern obferved old Britons paffage paffed Perfian period Phoenicians Pliny prefent prieſts purpoſe race regions Reſearches reſpect rites Sabian ſcience Scythian ſpecies ſtate ſtill ſtone Stonehenge Strabo Stukeley temple thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe thouſand tion Tyre uſed vafes vaft veffels weft weſtern whofe whoſe worſhip