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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Page xxix
... objects , or animals , and may be confidered , as point- edly allufive to a GENERAL DELUGE , at least , as pointedly as any of the others can be to the expedition of the Argonauts . So far Dr. Hyde in his profound astrono- mical ...
... objects , or animals , and may be confidered , as point- edly allufive to a GENERAL DELUGE , at least , as pointedly as any of the others can be to the expedition of the Argonauts . So far Dr. Hyde in his profound astrono- mical ...
Page cxxii
... objects more important have engaged my attention than those that relate to precision of expreffion , and the minutiae of errors , for the most part , typographical . While I again lament that the engravings . of this volume , which are ...
... objects more important have engaged my attention than those that relate to precision of expreffion , and the minutiae of errors , for the most part , typographical . While I again lament that the engravings . of this volume , which are ...
Page 157
... object equally novel and grand now claims our attention ; fo novel , as not to have been known to Europeans in the real extent of its magnificence before the year 1765 , and fo awfully grand , that the aftonished geographer , thinking ...
... object equally novel and grand now claims our attention ; fo novel , as not to have been known to Europeans in the real extent of its magnificence before the year 1765 , and fo awfully grand , that the aftonished geographer , thinking ...
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