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... about twenty - five miles below Rajemahal ; no part of the site of ancient Gour , however , is now nearer to the present bank of the Ganges than four miles ; and some parts of it , which are said to have been originally washed by ...
... about twenty - five miles below Rajemahal ; no part of the site of ancient Gour , however , is now nearer to the present bank of the Ganges than four miles ; and some parts of it , which are said to have been originally washed by ...
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We find in the Scriptures , that 1860 years before our æra , Abraham having purchased a piece of ground for a burying place , weighed to Ephron for it , four hundred shekels of silver , current money with the merchants ; * that 121 ...
We find in the Scriptures , that 1860 years before our æra , Abraham having purchased a piece of ground for a burying place , weighed to Ephron for it , four hundred shekels of silver , current money with the merchants ; * that 121 ...
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Here follow the different proportions of his limbs and features in those four forms . - Edinburgh Review , vol . xvii . pp . 313 , 314 , article on Moor's Hindu Pantheon . thalmos was an epithet of Zeus , but that a H 2 OF THE HINDŪS .
Here follow the different proportions of his limbs and features in those four forms . - Edinburgh Review , vol . xvii . pp . 313 , 314 , article on Moor's Hindu Pantheon . thalmos was an epithet of Zeus , but that a H 2 OF THE HINDŪS .
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The ancients mention four Apollos : one , the son of Vulcan ; another , the son of Corybas , and born in Crete ; a third , the son of Jupiter and Latona ; and another , the pastoral Apollo , born in Arcadia , and named by the Greeks ...
The ancients mention four Apollos : one , the son of Vulcan ; another , the son of Corybas , and born in Crete ; a third , the son of Jupiter and Latona ; and another , the pastoral Apollo , born in Arcadia , and named by the Greeks ...
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They live in tribes of three or four hundred , are wonderfully gentle , ( I speak as an eye - witness ) and appear to have some kind of order and subordination in their little sylvan polity . ” * We , however , state this supposed ...
They live in tribes of three or four hundred , are wonderfully gentle , ( I speak as an eye - witness ) and appear to have some kind of order and subordination in their little sylvan polity . ” * We , however , state this supposed ...
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| Title | Researches Concerning the Laws, Theology, Learning, Commerce, Etc. of Ancient and Modern India |
| Author | Quintin Craufurd |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | T. Cadell and W. Davies, Strand, 1817 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 28 Jun 2016 |
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