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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... EGYPT , AND GREECE , THE WHOLE Intended as Introductory to , and Illustrative of , THE HISTORY OF HINDOSTAN , UPON A COMPREHENSIVE SCALE , VOL VI . Containing DISSERTATIONS on the ORIGIN of the DRUIDS , and the ANCIENT COMMERCE of ...
... EGYPT , AND GREECE , THE WHOLE Intended as Introductory to , and Illustrative of , THE HISTORY OF HINDOSTAN , UPON A COMPREHENSIVE SCALE , VOL VI . Containing DISSERTATIONS on the ORIGIN of the DRUIDS , and the ANCIENT COMMERCE of ...
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... Egypt , and the Mercury of the Weft . - The Affyrian and Indian Belus the true Hercules of Antiquity , and the God Belen of the Druids proved to be fo by their BEAL- TINE , or Fires lighted in Honour of Baal.- Various Eaftern ...
... Egypt , and the Mercury of the Weft . - The Affyrian and Indian Belus the true Hercules of Antiquity , and the God Belen of the Druids proved to be fo by their BEAL- TINE , or Fires lighted in Honour of Baal.- Various Eaftern ...
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... Egypt . Taut , in truth , was no other than the elder Hermes , or god Anubis , of that country ; and it was this ... Egyptian temples , as an eternal me- ' mento to revolving ages , that such a patriar- chal notion of a diftinction in ...
... Egypt . Taut , in truth , was no other than the elder Hermes , or god Anubis , of that country ; and it was this ... Egyptian temples , as an eternal me- ' mento to revolving ages , that such a patriar- chal notion of a diftinction in ...
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... Egypt . Cæfar exprefsly fays , that the Druids wor- fhipped Mercury , and he doubtless afferted this from having obferved in Britain the ufual fymbols with which Mercury was decorated at Rome , the winged rod with the ferpents twined ...
... Egypt . Cæfar exprefsly fays , that the Druids wor- fhipped Mercury , and he doubtless afferted this from having obferved in Britain the ufual fymbols with which Mercury was decorated at Rome , the winged rod with the ferpents twined ...
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... Egypt and India , and which Mr. Bruce frequently met with in his travels through the higher Egypt and Abyffinia . I have elsewhere obferved the very fingular manner after which the Latin vulgate , * Paufanias in Achaicis , lib . vii ...
... Egypt and India , and which Mr. Bruce frequently met with in his travels through the higher Egypt and Abyffinia . I have elsewhere obferved the very fingular manner after which the Latin vulgate , * Paufanias in Achaicis , lib . vii ...
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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