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See five Memoirs by the Abbé Mignot , in the Mémoires de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles - Lettres , C tion acquired from the relations of modern travellers and missionaries ON ANCIENT INDIA . 17.
See five Memoirs by the Abbé Mignot , in the Mémoires de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles - Lettres , C tion acquired from the relations of modern travellers and missionaries ON ANCIENT INDIA . 17.
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tion acquired from the relations of modern travellers and missionaries , from Marco Paolo downward , though in many particulars faithful , was still too obscure and sometimes too contradictory , to enable them to form any just opinion ...
tion acquired from the relations of modern travellers and missionaries , from Marco Paolo downward , though in many particulars faithful , was still too obscure and sometimes too contradictory , to enable them to form any just opinion ...
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It is given by Euclid as useful for the construction of geometrical problems ; and trigonometry being then unknown . he probably did not think of any other applica tion of it . But what may seem extraordinary is , that when , about 400 ...
It is given by Euclid as useful for the construction of geometrical problems ; and trigonometry being then unknown . he probably did not think of any other applica tion of it . But what may seem extraordinary is , that when , about 400 ...
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tion above . The statue of their supposed son is nearly half a mile distant , and about twenty feet high . One of the legs of the male figure is much broken ; for the Musulmāns never march that way with cannon without firing two or ...
tion above . The statue of their supposed son is nearly half a mile distant , and about twenty feet high . One of the legs of the male figure is much broken ; for the Musulmāns never march that way with cannon without firing two or ...
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... and we earnestly hope that it will continue to be liberally supported and encouraged . * See discourse of the Governor - General , Lord Minto , to the College of Calcutta , 2d March , 1808 . VOL . II . N tion should be explained .
... and we earnestly hope that it will continue to be liberally supported and encouraged . * See discourse of the Governor - General , Lord Minto , to the College of Calcutta , 2d March , 1808 . VOL . II . N tion should be explained .
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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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