The Works of Sir William Jones ...G. G. and J. Robinson, 1799 |
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... beginning with facts of general notoriety or undif- puted evidence , to investigate fuch truths , as are at first unknown or very imperfectly difcerned . The five principal nations , who have in different ages divided among themselves ...
... beginning with facts of general notoriety or undif- puted evidence , to investigate fuch truths , as are at first unknown or very imperfectly difcerned . The five principal nations , who have in different ages divided among themselves ...
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... beginning of the eleventh century , but extend them upwards , as high as poffible , to the carliest authentick records of the human fpecies . India then , on its most enlarged scale , in which the ancients appear to have understood it ...
... beginning of the eleventh century , but extend them upwards , as high as poffible , to the carliest authentick records of the human fpecies . India then , on its most enlarged scale , in which the ancients appear to have understood it ...
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... beginning of the Seventh century , the effects of which we feel at this day from the Pyrenean mountains and the Danube , to the farthest parts of the Indian Empire , and even to the Eastern Islands . I. For the knowledge , which any ...
... beginning of the Seventh century , the effects of which we feel at this day from the Pyrenean mountains and the Danube , to the farthest parts of the Indian Empire , and even to the Eastern Islands . I. For the knowledge , which any ...
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... beginning of the fourteenth century , Khwajah RASHI'D , surnamed FAD'LU'LLAH , a native of Kazvìn ; compiled his account of the Tartars and Mongals from the papers of one PU'LA'D , whom the great grandfon of HOLACU ' had fent into ...
... beginning of the fourteenth century , Khwajah RASHI'D , surnamed FAD'LU'LLAH , a native of Kazvìn ; compiled his account of the Tartars and Mongals from the papers of one PU'LA'D , whom the great grandfon of HOLACU ' had fent into ...
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... beginning of our era ; and the other mounds were very probably constructed by the old Perfians , though , like many works of unknown origin , they are given to SECANDER , not the Macedonian , but a more ancient Hero supposed by some to ...
... beginning of our era ; and the other mounds were very probably constructed by the old Perfians , though , like many works of unknown origin , they are given to SECANDER , not the Macedonian , but a more ancient Hero supposed by some to ...
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