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
... whose astronomical calculations , and the mythology interwoven with it , have been mistaken for true histories , Voltaire first , and afterwards Bailly and Vol- ney , have principally founded those false and impious systems which have ...
... whose astronomical calculations , and the mythology interwoven with it , have been mistaken for true histories , Voltaire first , and afterwards Bailly and Vol- ney , have principally founded those false and impious systems which have ...
Page xi
... have been urged by those whose creed leads them to represent India , and not Chaldæa , as the cradle of the human race , and its venerable sages as the parents xii PREFACE . parents of all religion , in direct PREFACE . xi.
... have been urged by those whose creed leads them to represent India , and not Chaldæa , as the cradle of the human race , and its venerable sages as the parents xii PREFACE . parents of all religion , in direct PREFACE . xi.
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... whose partiality to it may poffibly be increased by the numerous legends and ro- mantic tales with which it abounds . Now , in what fuperior esteem , even to the facred volumes themselves , thefe Talmuds are holden by the Jews is ...
... whose partiality to it may poffibly be increased by the numerous legends and ro- mantic tales with which it abounds . Now , in what fuperior esteem , even to the facred volumes themselves , thefe Talmuds are holden by the Jews is ...
Page 88
... whose command the version was made ) fhould imagine the Jews to be polytheists like the idolatrous nation over which he ruled . St. Jerome , likewise , doubt- less from good authority , in the most early periods of the Christian church ...
... whose command the version was made ) fhould imagine the Jews to be polytheists like the idolatrous nation over which he ruled . St. Jerome , likewise , doubt- less from good authority , in the most early periods of the Christian church ...
Page 166
... whose book of PROVERBS is a remarkable proof of the predominancy of this fymbolical mode of enforcing truth . The famous book Zohar , and the Sephir Jetzirah , are crowded with fimilies and hyperboles in the Oriental way ; and the pages ...
... whose book of PROVERBS is a remarkable proof of the predominancy of this fymbolical mode of enforcing truth . The famous book Zohar , and the Sephir Jetzirah , are crowded with fimilies and hyperboles in the Oriental way ; and the pages ...
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