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... also converfant in the Turkish idiom , and the Chinese had even attracted his notice , fo far as to induce him to learn the ra- dical characters of that language , with a view perhaps to farther im- provements . It was to be expected ...
... also converfant in the Turkish idiom , and the Chinese had even attracted his notice , fo far as to induce him to learn the ra- dical characters of that language , with a view perhaps to farther im- provements . It was to be expected ...
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... also should be accurately known . So highly has medical skill been prized by the ancient Indians , that one of the fourteen Retna's , or precious things , which their Gods are believed to have produced by churning the ocean with the ...
... also should be accurately known . So highly has medical skill been prized by the ancient Indians , that one of the fourteen Retna's , or precious things , which their Gods are believed to have produced by churning the ocean with the ...
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... also Airávati in part of its course , and giving perhaps its ancient name to the gulf of Sabara . This domain of Bharat they confider as the middle of the Jambudwipa , which the Tibetians alfo call the Land of Zambu ; and the ...
... also Airávati in part of its course , and giving perhaps its ancient name to the gulf of Sabara . This domain of Bharat they confider as the middle of the Jambudwipa , which the Tibetians alfo call the Land of Zambu ; and the ...
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... also be traced in every part of these eastern regions ; nor can we doubt , that WOD or ODEN , whose religion , as the northern hiftorians admit , was introduced into Scandinavia by a foreign race , was the fame with BUDDH , whofe rites ...
... also be traced in every part of these eastern regions ; nor can we doubt , that WOD or ODEN , whose religion , as the northern hiftorians admit , was introduced into Scandinavia by a foreign race , was the fame with BUDDH , whofe rites ...
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... also famed for this manufacture , and the Egyptians yet more , as we learn from several paffages in fcripture , and particularly from a beautiful chapter in EZEKIAL con- taining the most authentick delineation of ancient commerce , of ...
... also famed for this manufacture , and the Egyptians yet more , as we learn from several paffages in fcripture , and particularly from a beautiful chapter in EZEKIAL con- taining the most authentick delineation of ancient commerce , of ...
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