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The Indian histories are full of accounts of the grandeur of this city , and even in the sixth century of our æra , when it had greatly declined from its former populousness , wealth , and magnificence , it was said to contain 30,000 ...
The Indian histories are full of accounts of the grandeur of this city , and even in the sixth century of our æra , when it had greatly declined from its former populousness , wealth , and magnificence , it was said to contain 30,000 ...
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Some persons have suggested the idea that the Hindu and Cretan lawgivers were perhaps the same person , and that Minos is a Greek corruption of Menu ; and hence they fix the existence of the latter only about 1500 years before our æra ...
Some persons have suggested the idea that the Hindu and Cretan lawgivers were perhaps the same person , and that Minos is a Greek corruption of Menu ; and hence they fix the existence of the latter only about 1500 years before our æra ...
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sage in Pausanias ; who , after saying that money was not in use in Greece , at the time of the death of Polydorus , king of Lacedæmon , ( that is about 720 years before our æra , and above 800 after the arrival in Greece of Cadmus ...
sage in Pausanias ; who , after saying that money was not in use in Greece , at the time of the death of Polydorus , king of Lacedæmon , ( that is about 720 years before our æra , and above 800 after the arrival in Greece of Cadmus ...
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We find in the Scriptures , that 1860 years before our æra , Abraham having purchased a piece of ground for a burying place , weighed to Ephron for it , four hundred shekels of silver , current money with the merchants ; * that 121 ...
We find in the Scriptures , that 1860 years before our æra , Abraham having purchased a piece of ground for a burying place , weighed to Ephron for it , four hundred shekels of silver , current money with the merchants ; * that 121 ...
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of money ; * shortly after this , that Joseph was sold by his brethren to Midianite merchants going to Egypt , for twenty pieces of silver ; and that Moses , about 1571 years before our æra , laid a poll - tax of one bekah , or half a ...
of money ; * shortly after this , that Joseph was sold by his brethren to Midianite merchants going to Egypt , for twenty pieces of silver ; and that Moses , about 1571 years before our æra , laid a poll - tax of one bekah , or half a ...
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| Title | Researches Concerning the Laws, Theology, Learning, Commerce, Etc. of Ancient and Modern India |
| Author | Quintin Craufurd |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | T. Cadell and W. Davies, Strand, 1817 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 28 Jun 2016 |
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