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 vii
... equally concern India and Britain , have selected the venerable Order of Druids , their doctrines , and rites , which have such an immediate and wonderful affinity with those of the Brahmins ; and the ancient commerce of the Phoenicians ...
... equally concern India and Britain , have selected the venerable Order of Druids , their doctrines , and rites , which have such an immediate and wonderful affinity with those of the Brahmins ; and the ancient commerce of the Phoenicians ...
Page xii
... equally convinced by the arguments which I have been able to produce , I ftill flatter my- felf , that the detail of many other curious facts which nearly concern them , as Britons , may yet amply reward them for the trouble of perufal ...
... equally convinced by the arguments which I have been able to produce , I ftill flatter my- felf , that the detail of many other curious facts which nearly concern them , as Britons , may yet amply reward them for the trouble of perufal ...
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... equally défcendants of Gomer , the great progenitor of this northern race ; and as , in a Differtation like the prefent , nice difquifitions concerning the fubordinate divifions of that primæval tribe are out of the question , or , at ...
... equally défcendants of Gomer , the great progenitor of this northern race ; and as , in a Differtation like the prefent , nice difquifitions concerning the fubordinate divifions of that primæval tribe are out of the question , or , at ...
Page 24
... equally known as an appellative of the Sun in Britain as in Afia ; for Toland , in his History of the Druids , ( and the fact has been fince confirmed to me by intelligent natives , as well of South as North Britain , ) tells us , that ...
... equally known as an appellative of the Sun in Britain as in Afia ; for Toland , in his History of the Druids , ( and the fact has been fince confirmed to me by intelligent natives , as well of South as North Britain , ) tells us , that ...
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... equally in the caves of Elephanta , and the fubterraneous receffes of Mona ; the addiction of both to the folar worship , and their perpetual preservation of the facred fire in the depths of those caverns ; and that , as the Brahmins ...
... equally in the caves of Elephanta , and the fubterraneous receffes of Mona ; the addiction of both to the folar worship , and their perpetual preservation of the facred fire in the depths of those caverns ; and that , as the Brahmins ...
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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