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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Page 40
... Cornwall , has devoted a chap- ter of that learned work to the confideration of the circumftances fo remarkably fimilar be- tween the religious rites of the British Druids and the old Perfians . As , however , in the former part of the ...
... Cornwall , has devoted a chap- ter of that learned work to the confideration of the circumftances fo remarkably fimilar be- tween the religious rites of the British Druids and the old Perfians . As , however , in the former part of the ...
Page 48
... the very fingular manner after which the Latin vulgate , * Paufanias in Achaicis , lib . vii . cap . 22 . + Borlafe's Antiquities of Cornwall , p . 82 . and , and , according to Lowth , probably the ancient copies [ 48 ]
... the very fingular manner after which the Latin vulgate , * Paufanias in Achaicis , lib . vii . cap . 22 . + Borlafe's Antiquities of Cornwall , p . 82 . and , and , according to Lowth , probably the ancient copies [ 48 ]
Page 107
... Cornwall , Wales , Scotland , and Ireland . Some of them are of immenfe magnitude , con- taining , according to Stukely , at least a hun- dred cart - loads of ftones of all fizes . They were called in the ancient Celtic language CARNS ...
... Cornwall , Wales , Scotland , and Ireland . Some of them are of immenfe magnitude , con- taining , according to Stukely , at least a hun- dred cart - loads of ftones of all fizes . They were called in the ancient Celtic language CARNS ...
Page 110
... Cornwall , are called LOGAN , rocking or bow- ing ftones . These prodigious ftones the Druids had the art to persuade their infatua- ted disciples were inspired with the spirit of the indwelling deity , and to this awful teft they ...
... Cornwall , are called LOGAN , rocking or bow- ing ftones . These prodigious ftones the Druids had the art to persuade their infatua- ted disciples were inspired with the spirit of the indwelling deity , and to this awful teft they ...
Page 112
... Cornwall , of great magnitude and celebrity , called in the Cornifh language MAIN - AMBER , to which the inhabitants had for ages paid a kind of fuperftitious refpect . Near Pen- zance , fays Camden , in whofe days it ex- ifted , there ...
... Cornwall , of great magnitude and celebrity , called in the Cornifh language MAIN - AMBER , to which the inhabitants had for ages paid a kind of fuperftitious refpect . Near Pen- zance , fays Camden , in whofe days it ex- ifted , there ...
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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