The Works of Sir William Jones, Volume 2J. Stockdale and J. Walker, 1807 - 13 pages |
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Page 28
... then , if the generations in both lines were nearly equal , as they would naturally have been , we fhall find YUDHISH- T'HIR , who reigned confeffedly at the close is of the brazen age , nine generations older than 28 ON THE CHRONOLOGY.
... then , if the generations in both lines were nearly equal , as they would naturally have been , we fhall find YUDHISH- T'HIR , who reigned confeffedly at the close is of the brazen age , nine generations older than 28 ON THE CHRONOLOGY.
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... equal , without obferving , that even the close of it is manifeftly fabulous and poetical , with hardly more appearance of hiftorical truth , than the tale of Troy or of the Argonauts ; for YUDHISHT HIR , it seems , was the fon of ...
... equal , without obferving , that even the close of it is manifeftly fabulous and poetical , with hardly more appearance of hiftorical truth , than the tale of Troy or of the Argonauts ; for YUDHISHT HIR , it seems , was the fon of ...
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... equal on an average to an hundred years , and that Indian princes have reigned , one with another , two and twenty : then reckoning thirty generations from ARJUN , the brother of YUDHISHT'HIRA , to the extinction of his race , and ...
... equal on an average to an hundred years , and that Indian princes have reigned , one with another , two and twenty : then reckoning thirty generations from ARJUN , the brother of YUDHISHT'HIRA , to the extinction of his race , and ...
Page 57
... equal to an hundred or an hundred and twenty years , which NEWTON admits to be the Grecian mode of computing them , we muft place that voyage at least five or fix hundred years before the time fixed by NEWTON himself , according to his ...
... equal to an hundred or an hundred and twenty years , which NEWTON admits to be the Grecian mode of computing them , we muft place that voyage at least five or fix hundred years before the time fixed by NEWTON himself , according to his ...
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... equal , enlightens the fummit of the sky ; with the << 86 66 66 66 fky enlightens the earth ; with the earth en- lightens the lower worlds ; enlightens the higher worlds , enlightens other worlds ; it enlightens the breast , enlightens ...
... equal , enlightens the fummit of the sky ; with the << 86 66 66 66 fky enlightens the earth ; with the earth en- lightens the lower worlds ; enlightens the higher worlds , enlightens other worlds ; it enlightens the breast , enlightens ...
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