The Works of William Robertson: Historical disquisition concerning the knowledge which the ancients had of India, and the progress of trade with that country prior to the discovery of the passage to it by the cape of Good HopeCadell and Davies, 1812 - 499 pages |
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... established maxim in their policy , to renounce all intercourfe with foreigners . In confequence of this , they held all fea - faring perfons in detef tation , as impious and profane ; and fortifying their harbours , they denied ...
... established maxim in their policy , to renounce all intercourfe with foreigners . In confequence of this , they held all fea - faring perfons in detef tation , as impious and profane ; and fortifying their harbours , they denied ...
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... established with the utmost certainty by a late learned traveller ; who by his knowledge of the monfoons in the Arabian Gulf , and his attention to the ancient mode of navigation , both in that fea and along the Afri- can coaft , has ...
... established with the utmost certainty by a late learned traveller ; who by his knowledge of the monfoons in the Arabian Gulf , and his attention to the ancient mode of navigation , both in that fea and along the Afri- can coaft , has ...
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... establishing an univerfal monarchy , and aspired to the dominion of the fea , as well as of the land . From the won ... establish a station for it , preferable in many respects to that of Tyre , as foon as he completed the conquest of ...
... establishing an univerfal monarchy , and aspired to the dominion of the fea , as well as of the land . From the won ... establish a station for it , preferable in many respects to that of Tyre , as foon as he completed the conquest of ...
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... established in it any powerful empire , resembling that which in mo- dern times ftretched its dominion from the Indus almoft to Cape Comorin , it was even then formed into monarchies of confiderable extent . The King of the Prafij was ...
... established in it any powerful empire , resembling that which in mo- dern times ftretched its dominion from the Indus almoft to Cape Comorin , it was even then formed into monarchies of confiderable extent . The King of the Prafij was ...
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... established there two thousand years fooner . When Alexander in- vaded India , he had fomething more in view than a tranfient incurfion . It was his object to annex that extenfive and opulent country to his empire ; and though the ...
... established there two thousand years fooner . When Alexander in- vaded India , he had fomething more in view than a tranfient incurfion . It was his object to annex that extenfive and opulent country to his empire ; and though the ...
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Page v - THE ANCIENTS HAD OF INDIA ; and the Progress of Trade with that Country prior to the Discovery of the Passage to it by the Cape of Good Hope.
Page 242 - As a man throweth away old garments, and putteth on new, even so the soul, having quitted its old mortal frames, entereth into others which are new. The weapon divideth it not, the fire burneth it not, the water corrupteth it not, the wind drieth it not away; for it is indivisible, inconsumable, incorruptible, and is not to be dried away: it is eternal, universal, permanent, immovable; it is invisible, inconceivable, and unalterable; therefore, believing it to be thus, thou shouldst not grieve.
Page 199 - The station of every individual is unalterably fixed; his destiny is irrevocable; and the walk of life is marked out, from which he must never deviate.
Page 60 - But it is a cruel mortification, in searching for what is instructive in the history of past times, to find that the exploits of conquerors who have desolated the earth, and the freaks of tyrants who have rendered nations unhappy, are recorded with minute and often disgusting accuracy, while the discovery of useful arts, and the progress of the most beneficial branches of commerce, are passed over in silence, and suffered to sink into oblivion.
Page 277 - Thou art the Father of all things animate and inanimate. Thou art the wise instructor of the whole, worthy to be adored. There is none like unto thee...
Page 246 - Let the motive be in the deed, and not in the event. Be not one whose motive for action is the hope of reward. Let not thy life be spent in inaction. Depend upon application, perform thy duty, abandon all thought of the consequence, and make the event equal, whether it terminate in good or in evil...
Page 221 - THESE stupendous works are of such high antiquity, that as the natives cannot, either from history or tradition, give any information concerning the time in which they were executed, they universally ascribe the formation of them to the power of superior beings. From the extent and grandeur of these subterraneous mansions, which intelligent travellers compare to the most celebrated monuments of human power and art...