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 viii
... thousands of difteffed miners : thefe united reafons have induced me to deviate fomewhat from my pro- pofed plan , and to fketch out fuch a fum- mary but clear view of the ancient and pre- fent commercial connection of Britain with ...
... thousands of difteffed miners : thefe united reafons have induced me to deviate fomewhat from my pro- pofed plan , and to fketch out fuch a fum- mary but clear view of the ancient and pre- fent commercial connection of Britain with ...
Page 20
... thousand years ago , will , of themselves , go far towards proving these af- sertions concerning their identity , and their having originated from one common stock . A celebrated grammarian has remarked , Nec modo Indicam , Perficam ...
... thousand years ago , will , of themselves , go far towards proving these af- sertions concerning their identity , and their having originated from one common stock . A celebrated grammarian has remarked , Nec modo Indicam , Perficam ...
Page 57
... thousand five hundred years before Chrift , which might be the precife period when the first colonies began to migrate from Afia towards the weft , and very much builds up the hypothesis for which I contend , of the English being ...
... thousand five hundred years before Chrift , which might be the precife period when the first colonies began to migrate from Afia towards the weft , and very much builds up the hypothesis for which I contend , of the English being ...
Page 69
... thousand years be- fore Chrift , which nearly marks the æra of the creation , which , according to the best and wifeft chronologers , began at the vernal equi- nox , when all nature was gay and fmiling , and the earth arrayed in its ...
... thousand years be- fore Chrift , which nearly marks the æra of the creation , which , according to the best and wifeft chronologers , began at the vernal equi- nox , when all nature was gay and fmiling , and the earth arrayed in its ...
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... thousand years ago , and very probably long before , by their ancestors the ancient Gauls , of the fame religion with themselves . * The fame author acquaints us that the in- habitants of Lewis , one of the largest of the western ifles ...
... thousand years ago , and very probably long before , by their ancestors the ancient Gauls , of the fame religion with themselves . * The fame author acquaints us that the in- habitants of Lewis , one of the largest of the western ifles ...
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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