Researches Concerning the Laws, Theology, Learning, Commerce, Etc. of Ancient and Modern IndiaT. Cadell and W. Davies, Strand, 1817 |
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Page 53
... bodies , observes , that the first manner cost a talent of silver , the second twenty minæ ; and what is still stronger than all the other passages which we have quoted from him , we find , * that by the criminal laws of Egypt , those ...
... bodies , observes , that the first manner cost a talent of silver , the second twenty minæ ; and what is still stronger than all the other passages which we have quoted from him , we find , * that by the criminal laws of Egypt , those ...
Page 95
... body , it immediately repairs to Yamapur , or the city of Yama , where it is judged according to what may have been ... bodies of men or animals , until its vicious inclination be corrected . Jupiter , the father of gods and men , and ...
... body , it immediately repairs to Yamapur , or the city of Yama , where it is judged according to what may have been ... bodies of men or animals , until its vicious inclination be corrected . Jupiter , the father of gods and men , and ...
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... body was composed of the figures of young women , entwined in so whimsical , but ingenious a manner , as to exhibit the shape of that enormous animal . Several pieces of sculpture of the same figure , in bas - relief , have been met ...
... body was composed of the figures of young women , entwined in so whimsical , but ingenious a manner , as to exhibit the shape of that enormous animal . Several pieces of sculpture of the same figure , in bas - relief , have been met ...
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... body was always clothed first . If a servant presented his master with the left sleeve of his garment first , or his left shoe or sandal , it was considered as portending something unlucky . CHAPTER V. ON THE PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGY OF ...
... body was always clothed first . If a servant presented his master with the left sleeve of his garment first , or his left shoe or sandal , it was considered as portending something unlucky . CHAPTER V. ON THE PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGY OF ...
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... bodies to revolve in the course he has prescribed to them . * mata may be epitomized in the following heads : -1 . The existence of one God , from whom all things proceed , and to whom all must return . 2. A tripartite division of the ...
... bodies to revolve in the course he has prescribed to them . * mata may be epitomized in the following heads : -1 . The existence of one God , from whom all things proceed , and to whom all must return . 2. A tripartite division of the ...
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