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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... Colonies of Priests professing the Religion of Buddha , or Boodh , who was the Hermes , or Mercury , of the Western , and the Woden of the Northern , World . The Japhetic Tribes , defcribed generally under the Names of Scythian and ...
... Colonies of Priests professing the Religion of Buddha , or Boodh , who was the Hermes , or Mercury , of the Western , and the Woden of the Northern , World . The Japhetic Tribes , defcribed generally under the Names of Scythian and ...
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... colonies , and the earliest im- portation into the western world of the religi- ous rites in ufe among them , we have it in our power , through the fame authentic chan- nel , † to penetrate to the very birth of civil establishments ...
... colonies , and the earliest im- portation into the western world of the religi- ous rites in ufe among them , we have it in our power , through the fame authentic chan- nel , † to penetrate to the very birth of civil establishments ...
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... colonies which emi- grated from northern Afia into the west , many of these priests might have mingled , and thus wafted into Europe , much of the theology , jurifprudence , and manners , of the Indian nation . But the hypothefis for ...
... colonies which emi- grated from northern Afia into the west , many of these priests might have mingled , and thus wafted into Europe , much of the theology , jurifprudence , and manners , of the Indian nation . But the hypothefis for ...
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... colonies into these western regions , and thus Britain , according to this writer , is the coun- try of the Brith , or painted people , from which circumftance , probably , in fucceeding times , the fame nation came to be denomi- nated ...
... colonies into these western regions , and thus Britain , according to this writer , is the coun- try of the Brith , or painted people , from which circumftance , probably , in fucceeding times , the fame nation came to be denomi- nated ...
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... colonies , from the cold and bleak regions in the immediate neighbourhood of the Caucafus , to the warm and genial provinces lying nearer the fouthern tropic . I have given a glimpse of the manners of the gloomy Cuthite wor- ship , in ...
... colonies , from the cold and bleak regions in the immediate neighbourhood of the Caucafus , to the warm and genial provinces lying nearer the fouthern tropic . I have given a glimpse of the manners of the gloomy Cuthite wor- ship , in ...
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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