Researches Concerning the Laws, Theology, Learning, Commerce, Etc. of Ancient and Modern IndiaT. Cadell and W. Davies, Strand, 1817 |
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... hand - writing , found amongst his papers , twenty - eight languages are mentioned as having been studied by him . 66 Eight ( says he ) critically : English , French , Italian , Latin , Greek , Arabic , Persian , Sanscrit . " Eight ...
... hand - writing , found amongst his papers , twenty - eight languages are mentioned as having been studied by him . 66 Eight ( says he ) critically : English , French , Italian , Latin , Greek , Arabic , Persian , Sanscrit . " Eight ...
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... hands that Hindu policy , both civil and religious , favours population , agriculture , and commerce . ” * " It It may be objected , that a tribe of military forms one part of the Hindū system ; and that war implies oppression . Against ...
... hands that Hindu policy , both civil and religious , favours population , agriculture , and commerce . ” * " It It may be objected , that a tribe of military forms one part of the Hindū system ; and that war implies oppression . Against ...
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... hands cut off . Pliny speaks of the Egyptian talent at the time of Cyrus , that is , above 200 years before the expedition of Alexander , and 527 before our æra . + Brerewood says , Cyrus , devictâ Asiâ , reportavit argenti 500,000 ...
... hands cut off . Pliny speaks of the Egyptian talent at the time of Cyrus , that is , above 200 years before the expedition of Alexander , and 527 before our æra . + Brerewood says , Cyrus , devictâ Asiâ , reportavit argenti 500,000 ...
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... hand riding on a Pegasus . On Thessalian coins a horse is seen , —the Thessalians being famous horsemen , and their force consisting entirely of cavalry . The Byzantine coins had a dolphin twisted round the trident of Neptune . On some ...
... hand riding on a Pegasus . On Thessalian coins a horse is seen , —the Thessalians being famous horsemen , and their force consisting entirely of cavalry . The Byzantine coins had a dolphin twisted round the trident of Neptune . On some ...
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... hand , and in the other a serpent with its tail in its mouth , the symbol of perpetual cycles and revolutions of ages : sometimes he is to be seen in the act of devouring years in the form of children , and sometimes encircled by the ...
... hand , and in the other a serpent with its tail in its mouth , the symbol of perpetual cycles and revolutions of ages : sometimes he is to be seen in the act of devouring years in the form of children , and sometimes encircled by the ...
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