The Works of Sir William Jones, Volume 2J. Stockdale and J. Walker, 1807 - 13 pages |
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... tion be attainable , we fhall , perhaps , in due time attain it either from books or infcriptions in the Sanferit language ; but from the mate- rials , with which we are at prefent fupplied , we may establish as indubitable the two ...
... tion be attainable , we fhall , perhaps , in due time attain it either from books or infcriptions in the Sanferit language ; but from the mate- rials , with which we are at prefent fupplied , we may establish as indubitable the two ...
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... preceded the Argonautick expedi- tion ) , but by fuch evidence as our aftrono- mers and scholars fhall allow to be unexcep- tionable . CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE , ACCORDING TO One of the HYPOTHESES intimated 46 ON THE CHRONOLOGY , & c . '
... preceded the Argonautick expedi- tion ) , but by fuch evidence as our aftrono- mers and scholars fhall allow to be unexcep- tionable . CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE , ACCORDING TO One of the HYPOTHESES intimated 46 ON THE CHRONOLOGY , & c . '
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... tion he found the folftitial points in the first de- grees of Carcata and Macara , the equinoctial points were at the fame time in the first of Mé- fba and Tulà : he lived , therefore , in the year 14 3600 of the fourth Indian period ...
... tion he found the folftitial points in the first de- grees of Carcata and Macara , the equinoctial points were at the fame time in the first of Mé- fba and Tulà : he lived , therefore , in the year 14 3600 of the fourth Indian period ...
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... tion without any change in the phrases , by which the seasons were diftinguished ; as our popular language in aftronomy remains unal- tered , though the Zodiacal afterisms are now removed a whole fign from the places , where they have ...
... tion without any change in the phrases , by which the seasons were diftinguished ; as our popular language in aftronomy remains unal- tered , though the Zodiacal afterisms are now removed a whole fign from the places , where they have ...
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... tion of BATTUS ; fo that , confidering three generations as 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 ...
... tion of BATTUS ; fo that , confidering three generations as 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 ...
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