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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... HISTORY OF HINDOSTAN , UPON A COMPREHENSIVE SCALE . VOL . II . Commencing the SURVEY of the THEOLOGY of HINDOSTAN ; and confidering that Theology , principally , in its physical and fymbolical Allufions . BIBLIOT LONDON : Printed , for ...
... HISTORY OF HINDOSTAN , UPON A COMPREHENSIVE SCALE . VOL . II . Commencing the SURVEY of the THEOLOGY of HINDOSTAN ; and confidering that Theology , principally , in its physical and fymbolical Allufions . BIBLIOT LONDON : Printed , for ...
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... 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.
... 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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... Historical Fragments . Profound veneration both of the Indians and Scythians for the MANES of their ANCESTORS cxemplified from a paffage in Herodotus , from another in the SACONTALA , and from Mr. Wilkins's account of the ceremony of ...
... Historical Fragments . Profound veneration both of the Indians and Scythians for the MANES of their ANCESTORS cxemplified from a paffage in Herodotus , from another in the SACONTALA , and from Mr. Wilkins's account of the ceremony of ...
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... History * of the Tartars , concerning a very ancient conquest of the northern regions of Hindoftan by OGUS KHAN , one of their most early emperors , an account of which will be hereafter given in its proper place , induces me ftill ...
... History * of the Tartars , concerning a very ancient conquest of the northern regions of Hindoftan by OGUS KHAN , one of their most early emperors , an account of which will be hereafter given in its proper place , induces me ftill ...
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... history is veiled . Never did a belief in aërial beings , in the phantoms en- gendered by the warmth of a glowing and en- thusiastic imagination , fo univerfally infect a people as that belief did in ancient times , and does , at this ...
... history is veiled . Never did a belief in aërial beings , in the phantoms en- gendered by the warmth of a glowing and en- thusiastic imagination , fo univerfally infect a people as that belief did in ancient times , and does , at this ...
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