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 ... |
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Page viii
... for true histories , Voltaire first , and afterwards Bailly and Vol- ney , have principally founded those false and impious systems which have plunged a great nation into the abyss of atheism , and all its nation Vil ...
... for true histories , Voltaire first , and afterwards Bailly and Vol- ney , have principally founded those false and impious systems which have plunged a great nation into the abyss of atheism , and all its nation Vil ...
Page ix
... state of rewards and punish- ments ; that the first history of which they can boast has , for its subject , the destruction of the human race , for their multiplied enormities , in in in a certain great deluge , from which only PREFACE .
... state of rewards and punish- ments ; that the first history of which they can boast has , for its subject , the destruction of the human race , for their multiplied enormities , in in in a certain great deluge , from which only PREFACE .
Page xi
... first origin from the school of the Brah- mins ; for , this and many other positions , in- jurious to Christianity , have been urged by those whose creed leads them to represent India , and not Chaldæa , as the cradle of the human race ...
... first origin from the school of the Brah- mins ; for , this and many other positions , in- jurious to Christianity , have been urged by those whose creed leads them to represent India , and not Chaldæa , as the cradle of the human race ...
Page xii
... first resi- dence of the patriarchs in Chaldæa , and traces religion itself to a higher and nobler source . It became absolutely necessary to examine the Hebrew Scriptures as well as the Jewish ca- bala ; and to prove , not only that ...
... first resi- dence of the patriarchs in Chaldæa , and traces religion itself to a higher and nobler source . It became absolutely necessary to examine the Hebrew Scriptures as well as the Jewish ca- bala ; and to prove , not only that ...
Page xiv
... first effective cause ? The Jews we know , by the divine permission , used both in their sacred ceremonial rites . By this circumstance , there- fore ; by that of a demiurgic spirit , hovering over primordial waters ; of a sacred triad ...
... first effective cause ? The Jews we know , by the divine permission , used both in their sacred ceremonial rites . By this circumstance , there- fore ; by that of a demiurgic spirit , hovering over primordial waters ; of a sacred triad ...
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