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 Profound Literature, of Hindostan: Compared, Throughout, with the Religion, Laws, Government, and Literature, of Persia, Egypt, and Greece, the Whole Intended as Introductory to The History of Hindostan, Upon a Comprehensive Scale, Volume 2C. & W. Galabin, 1800 - India |
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... DISSERTATION II . THE THEOLOGY OF HINDOST A N : COMPREHENDING THE HISTORY OF THE RISE , PROGRESS , AND DIFFUSION , OF SU- PERSTITION , DURING THE MOST EARLY PERIODS , IN ASIA . INTRODUCTORY PROSPECTUS . OF THE CONTENT S OF THE DISSERTATION.
... DISSERTATION II . THE THEOLOGY OF HINDOST A N : COMPREHENDING THE HISTORY OF THE RISE , PROGRESS , AND DIFFUSION , OF SU- PERSTITION , DURING THE MOST EARLY PERIODS , IN ASIA . INTRODUCTORY PROSPECTUS . OF THE CONTENT S OF THE DISSERTATION.
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... EARLY , GREEKS . As the fubject is complex , and , confequently , as no very exact order of arrangement in the investigation of such a multitude of obscure and abstracted topics could be adhered to , he folicits the attention of the ...
... EARLY , GREEKS . As the fubject is complex , and , confequently , as no very exact order of arrangement in the investigation of such a multitude of obscure and abstracted topics could be adhered to , he folicits the attention of the ...
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... early intercourse of the two nations in the northern regions of Hindoftan- that intercourfe proved from various circumftances , but particularly from the impreffive one of an ancient conqueft of Hindoftan by Oguz Cawn , and recorded by ...
... early intercourse of the two nations in the northern regions of Hindoftan- that intercourfe proved from various circumftances , but particularly from the impreffive one of an ancient conqueft of Hindoftan by Oguz Cawn , and recorded by ...
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... fon of NOAH , the earliest idolater of the poft - diluvian world , who led the first colony from Chaldæa to the banks of the Nile . That the moft venerated IDOLS - of $ of India are the ATTRIBUTES OF GOD perfonified , [ 16 ]
... fon of NOAH , the earliest idolater of the poft - diluvian world , who led the first colony from Chaldæa to the banks of the Nile . That the moft venerated IDOLS - of $ of India are the ATTRIBUTES OF GOD perfonified , [ 16 ]
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... early and familiar intercourse sub- fifting between the EGYPTIANS and INDIANS ad- duced . The ftructure of their temples fimilar in point of maffy folidity , magnitude , and extent . A curfory comparison of a few of the principal ...
... early and familiar intercourse sub- fifting between the EGYPTIANS and INDIANS ad- duced . The ftructure of their temples fimilar in point of maffy folidity , magnitude , and extent . A curfory comparison of a few of the principal ...
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