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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... Asia , and then Europe , where they gradually established themselves from the banks of the Danube to the pillars of Hercules ; that is , of their first conductor , whofoever he was , to the celebrated Straits , thus denominated . The ...
... Asia , and then Europe , where they gradually established themselves from the banks of the Danube to the pillars of Hercules ; that is , of their first conductor , whofoever he was , to the celebrated Straits , thus denominated . The ...
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... Asia . The towns appointed for the coinage of tin were anciently only four in number , fituated in those districts of the county which were confidered most convenient for the tinners , by name Lefkard , Leftwithiel , Truro , and Helfton ...
... Asia . The towns appointed for the coinage of tin were anciently only four in number , fituated in those districts of the county which were confidered most convenient for the tinners , by name Lefkard , Leftwithiel , Truro , and Helfton ...
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... Asia , by the Greeks , a people fituated on its western limits , as was the refult of the conquefts of Alexander in Perfia and India , the nations , inhabiting the shores of the Mediterranean and the Arabian Gulph , would , in all ...
... Asia , by the Greeks , a people fituated on its western limits , as was the refult of the conquefts of Alexander in Perfia and India , the nations , inhabiting the shores of the Mediterranean and the Arabian Gulph , would , in all ...
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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