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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... race of emigrated Indian phi- lofophers . The affertion , bold and unqua- lified as it was , made , at the time of my reading it , a confiderable impreffion on my mind ; and , in confequence , I fate down to that ela- borate ...
... race of emigrated Indian phi- lofophers . The affertion , bold and unqua- lified as it was , made , at the time of my reading it , a confiderable impreffion on my mind ; and , in confequence , I fate down to that ela- borate ...
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... Race ; the Scy- thians , ever Barbarians . - Efcaped from the Horrors of the general Deluge , the Noachi- da , who fettled in Afia , inhabited the Regions neareft the great Range of Taurus . In the Median Mountains , and near the ...
... Race ; the Scy- thians , ever Barbarians . - Efcaped from the Horrors of the general Deluge , the Noachi- da , who fettled in Afia , inhabited the Regions neareft the great Range of Taurus . In the Median Mountains , and near the ...
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... race of Scythian philo- fophers , for whofe exiftence neither history nor tradition , but certain fanciful conjectures of the author , are alone brought in evidence , M. Bailli fuppofes to have been the mafters of the Brahmins of India ...
... race of Scythian philo- fophers , for whofe exiftence neither history nor tradition , but certain fanciful conjectures of the author , are alone brought in evidence , M. Bailli fuppofes to have been the mafters of the Brahmins of India ...
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... race of men , whom they ever confidered as barbarians , and inhabiting what they thought the extremeties of the world . From these positive and dogmatical affertions of Bailli , let us attend a better judge of the matter , Sir W. Jones ...
... race of men , whom they ever confidered as barbarians , and inhabiting what they thought the extremeties of the world . From these positive and dogmatical affertions of Bailli , let us attend a better judge of the matter , Sir W. Jones ...
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Thomas Maurice. foundery of the human race ; but M. BAILLI , a wonderfully ingenious man , and a very lively writer , feems firft to have confidered it as the cradle of our fpecies , and to have fup- ported an opinion , that the whole ...
Thomas Maurice. foundery of the human race ; but M. BAILLI , a wonderfully ingenious man , and a very lively writer , feems firft to have confidered it as the cradle of our fpecies , and to have fup- ported an opinion , that the whole ...
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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