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William Robertson. LENOX LIBRARY NEW YORK Printed by A. Strahan , Printers - Street , London . AN HISTORICAL DISQUISITION CONCERNING THE KNOWLEDGE WHICH THE ANCIENTS HAD.
William Robertson. LENOX LIBRARY NEW YORK Printed by A. Strahan , Printers - Street , London . AN HISTORICAL DISQUISITION CONCERNING THE KNOWLEDGE WHICH THE ANCIENTS HAD.
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William Robertson. AN 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 HOPE . With an APPENDIX ...
William Robertson. AN 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 HOPE . With an APPENDIX ...
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... knowledge which the Ancients had of India , and of considering what is certain , what is obscure , and what is fabulous , in the accounts of that country which they have handed down In undertaking this enquiry , I had ori ginally no ...
... knowledge which the Ancients had of India , and of considering what is certain , what is obscure , and what is fabulous , in the accounts of that country which they have handed down In undertaking this enquiry , I had ori ginally no ...
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... knowledge , that I have been at the utmost pains to guard against any errors which this might occasion . I have consulted , with persevering industry , the works of all the authors I could procure , who have given any account of India ...
... knowledge , that I have been at the utmost pains to guard against any errors which this might occasion . I have consulted , with persevering industry , the works of all the authors I could procure , who have given any account of India ...
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... knowledge was requisite , than my attention to other studies had permitted me to acquire . What I wanted , the friendship of my ingenious and respectable Col- league , Mr. Playfair , Professor of Mathematics , has supplied ; and I have ...
... knowledge was requisite , than my attention to other studies had permitted me to acquire . What I wanted , the friendship of my ingenious and respectable Col- league , Mr. Playfair , Professor of Mathematics , has supplied ; and I have ...
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Página 177 - From that time, like everything else which falls into the hands of the Mussulman, it has been going to ruin, and the discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope gave the deathblow to its commercial greatness.
Página 351 - ... the affairs of this empire in equity and firm security for the space of fifty-two years, preserving every tribe of men in ease and happiness; whether they were followers of Jesus, or of Moses, of David, or...
Página 352 - In your temples, to His name the voice is raised in prayer ; in a house of images, where the bell is shaken, still He is the object of adoration. To vilify the religion or customs of other men, is to set at naught the pleasure of the Almighty.
Página 357 - Veeshnoo-Sarma, in a Series of connected Fables, interspersed with moral, prudential, and political Maxims; translated from an ancient Manuscript in the Sanskreet Language, with explanatory Notes, by Charles Wilkins.
Página 225 - Thy tears, my child, ill suit the occasion ; we shall all meet again ; be firm ; see the direct road before thee, and follow it. When the big tear lurks beneath thy beautiful eyelashes, let thy resolution check its first efforts to disengage itself. In thy passage over this earth, where the paths are now high, now low, and the true path seldom distinguished, the traces of thy feet must needs be unequal ; but virtue will press thee right onward a.
Página x - From the raft or canoe, which first served to carry a savage over the river that obstructed him in the chase, to the construction of a vessel capable of conveying a numerous crew with safety to a distant coast, the progress in improvement is immense.
Página 250 - Fasts, mortifications, and penances, all rigid, and many of them excruciating to an extreme degree, were the means employed to appease the wrath of their gods, and the Mexicans never approached their altars without sprinkling them with blood drawn from their own bodies.
Página 188 - Nor is it between the four different tribes alone that such insuperable barriers are fixed ; the members of each cast adhere invariably to the profession of their forefathers. From generation to generation, the same families have followed, and will always continue to follow, one uniform line of life.
Página 2 - India by sea ; and if, from deference to* the sentiments of some respectable authors, their claim were to be admitted, we know with certainty, that the commercial effort which they made in the reign of Solomon was merely a transient one, and that they quickly returned to their former state of unsocial seclusion from the rest of mankind.
Página 356 - Greek ; and those not in technical and metaphorical terms, which the mutuation of refined arts and improved manners might have occasionally introduced, but in the groundwork of language, in monosyllables, in the names of numbers, and the appellations of such things as would be first discriminated on the immediate dawn of civilization.