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 ...The Author, 1800 - India |
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... first de- lineated on the celeftial fphere , appear to me to afford an illuftrative commentary upon , and to yield decifive teftimony to the truth of THE TEN FIRST CHAPTERS OF GENESIS . For in memorial of what other events , except of ...
... first de- lineated on the celeftial fphere , appear to me to afford an illuftrative commentary upon , and to yield decifive teftimony to the truth of THE TEN FIRST CHAPTERS OF GENESIS . For in memorial of what other events , except of ...
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... first rank , both of civil and military distinction ; and we find his name par- ticularly mentioned among the five great rajas who united to oppose the first invasion of Su- buctagi , or Sabektekin , as the Arabians , and D'Herbelot ...
... first rank , both of civil and military distinction ; and we find his name par- ticularly mentioned among the five great rajas who united to oppose the first invasion of Su- buctagi , or Sabektekin , as the Arabians , and D'Herbelot ...
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... first are the RHYMMICIS mountains of Ptolemy ; the fecond the IMAUS and the EMODI mountains ; and the third is the DEENIS of Ptolemy . This tract is Mr. Halhed's Bhertekhund , or , as I fhall hereafter , according to Mr. Rennel's and ...
... first are the RHYMMICIS mountains of Ptolemy ; the fecond the IMAUS and the EMODI mountains ; and the third is the DEENIS of Ptolemy . This tract is Mr. Halhed's Bhertekhund , or , as I fhall hereafter , according to Mr. Rennel's and ...
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