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... four vast rocks , from which as many facred rivers derive their several streams . The inhabitants of this extenfive tract are defcribed by Mr. LORD with great exactness , and with a picturesque elegance peculiar to our ancient language ...
... four vast rocks , from which as many facred rivers derive their several streams . The inhabitants of this extenfive tract are defcribed by Mr. LORD with great exactness , and with a picturesque elegance peculiar to our ancient language ...
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... four general media of fatisfying our curiofity concerning it ; namely , first , their Languages and Letters ; fecondly , their Philofophy and Religion ; thirdly , the actual remains of their old Sculpture and Architecture ; and fourthly ...
... four general media of fatisfying our curiofity concerning it ; namely , first , their Languages and Letters ; fecondly , their Philofophy and Religion ; thirdly , the actual remains of their old Sculpture and Architecture ; and fourthly ...
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... four several dates , we may fix the time of BUDDHA , or the ninth great incarnation of VISHNU , in the year one thousand and fourteen before the birth of CHRIST , or two thousand seven hundred and ninety - nine years ago . Now the ...
... four several dates , we may fix the time of BUDDHA , or the ninth great incarnation of VISHNU , in the year one thousand and fourteen before the birth of CHRIST , or two thousand seven hundred and ninety - nine years ago . Now the ...
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... four quarters of the globe was the veneration paid by men to the vast body of fire , which " looks from his fole dominion like the God of this world ; " and another , the im- moderate respect shown to the memory of powerful or virtuous ...
... four quarters of the globe was the veneration paid by men to the vast body of fire , which " looks from his fole dominion like the God of this world ; " and another , the im- moderate respect shown to the memory of powerful or virtuous ...
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... four thousand years before CHENGIZ KHA'N , who was born in the year 1164 , and with whose reign their historical period commences . It is rather furprizing , that M. BAILLY , who makes frequent appeals to Etymological arguments , has ...
... four thousand years before CHENGIZ KHA'N , who was born in the year 1164 , and with whose reign their historical period commences . It is rather furprizing , that M. BAILLY , who makes frequent appeals to Etymological arguments , has ...
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affert affured Afiatick alfo almoſt alſo ancient anſwered Arabian Arabick Arabs beautiful becauſe beſt BRAHMA Bráhmans BUDDHA called cauſe Chineſe cloſe compofed compofitions confiderable confifts courſe CRISHNA damfel defcribed defire Deity diſtinct diſtinguiſhed divine Egypt eſpecially eſtabliſhed exiſtence expreffed facred faid fame fays fecond feems feven fhall fimilar fince firſt folar fome fubject fuch fuppofed fyftem Greeks himſelf Hindus hiſtory houſe India Indian INDRA iſland itſelf juſt king language laſt learned leaſt letters lunar Magadha MENU modes moon moſt mufick muſt myſelf nature obfervations paffage paffion Pandits Perfian philofopher pleaſure poets praiſe preſent preſerved prince purpoſe queſtion RA'DHA RA'MA raiſed reaſon repreſented reſemblance reſpective ſaid Sanferit ſcience ſeems ſeveral ſhall ſhe ſhort ſhould ſome ſtars ſtate ſtill ſuch ſuppoſed ſyſtem thee themſelves theſe thofe thoſe thou thouſand tranflated univerſe uſed Védas verſe VISHNU vowel whofe whoſe word Yemen