The Works of Sir William Jones, Volume 2Garland Pub., 1984 - 188 pages |
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... deity are fully comprized in two choriambick verfes of SULPITIUS ; and a farther account of him from OVID would here ... deities ! " He was the God , we fee , of Wisdom ; whence he is represented on coins with two , and , on the ...
... deity are fully comprized in two choriambick verfes of SULPITIUS ; and a farther account of him from OVID would here ... deities ! " He was the God , we fee , of Wisdom ; whence he is represented on coins with two , and , on the ...
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... deity in his capacity of preserver ; fince of the four , which are declared to have happened in the Satya yug , the three first apparently relate to fome ftupendous convulfion of our globe from the fountains of the deep , and the fourth ...
... deity in his capacity of preserver ; fince of the four , which are declared to have happened in the Satya yug , the three first apparently relate to fome ftupendous convulfion of our globe from the fountains of the deep , and the fourth ...
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... Deity to prefide over their labours , without having the leaft in- tercourfe with each other ; but no reafon ap- pears , why two nations fhould concur in fup- pofing that Deity to be a female : one at least of them would be more likely ...
... Deity to prefide over their labours , without having the leaft in- tercourfe with each other ; but no reafon ap- pears , why two nations fhould concur in fup- pofing that Deity to be a female : one at least of them would be more likely ...
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