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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... first migration of the Afiatic 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 ...
... first migration of the Afiatic 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 ...
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... first rudi- ments of the sciences , particularly astronomy . He labours to demonftrate that fome cele- brated difcoveries in aftronomy could only have taken place in the high northern lati- tudes of Afia ; that most of the ancient my ...
... first rudi- ments of the sciences , particularly astronomy . He labours to demonftrate that fome cele- brated difcoveries in aftronomy could only have taken place in the high northern lati- tudes of Afia ; that most of the ancient my ...
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... first conductor , whofoever he was , to the celebrated Straits , thus denominated . The exact period in which the Scythian Nomades began thus to move forward from the mountains to the north of Perfia and India , it is scarcely poffible ...
... first conductor , whofoever he was , to the celebrated Straits , thus denominated . The exact period in which the Scythian Nomades began thus to move forward from the mountains to the north of Perfia and India , it is scarcely poffible ...
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... first exiftent , or grand parent , which the Rabbins affert to have been the original name of Eve , the great mother of mankind , and , probably , the genuine Ifis of the Egyptians ; at least such is Stillingfleet's very rational con ...
... first exiftent , or grand parent , which the Rabbins affert to have been the original name of Eve , the great mother of mankind , and , probably , the genuine Ifis of the Egyptians ; at least such is Stillingfleet's very rational con ...
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... first , or geo- graphical , Differtation , in particular , I had occafion to remark , that , in Perfian , iftan , or ftan , was the name of a land , or region , as , for inftance , in Chuziftan , the region of Cush ; in Hindoftan , the ...
... first , or geo- graphical , Differtation , in particular , I had occafion to remark , that , in Perfian , iftan , or ftan , was the name of a land , or region , as , for inftance , in Chuziftan , the region of Cush ; in Hindoftan , the ...
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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