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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... period began , in a more particular man- ner , to be directed towards the history and literature of India . It fell into hands at a period , when , from being engaged in writing upon a subject connected with an interesting period of ...
... period began , in a more particular man- ner , to be directed towards the history and literature of India . It fell into hands at a period , when , from being engaged in writing upon a subject connected with an interesting period of ...
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... period it enjoyed above all the cities of Hindoftan : The period ; however , of its proudeft diftinétion , as a comë mercial city ; feems to have been that in which the traffic at present carried on by the European fettlements upon the ...
... period it enjoyed above all the cities of Hindoftan : The period ; however , of its proudeft diftinétion , as a comë mercial city ; feems to have been that in which the traffic at present carried on by the European fettlements upon the ...
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... period . But to re - build Agra and its castle in a manner worthy of the defigner , and calculated to render it the metropolis of the greatest empire in Asia , re- quired the unwearied exertions of one of the greatest monarchs whom Afia ...
... period . But to re - build Agra and its castle in a manner worthy of the defigner , and calculated to render it the metropolis of the greatest empire in Asia , re- quired the unwearied exertions of one of the greatest monarchs whom Afia ...
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