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, Containing Observations on the Civil Policy-the Laws and Judicial Proceedings-the Arts-the Sciences-and Religious Institutions of the IndiansJohn Biore and Thomas Plowman, 1812 - 384 páginas |
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... Persians ; and even of this we have only a very general and doubtful account . Darius , the son of Hystaspes , though raised to the throne of Persia by chance or by artifice , possessed such active and enterprising talents , as rendered ...
... Persians ; and even of this we have only a very general and doubtful account . Darius , the son of Hystaspes , though raised to the throne of Persia by chance or by artifice , possessed such active and enterprising talents , as rendered ...
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... Persian monarchy . But neither this voyage of Scylax , nor the conquests of Darius , to which it gave rise , diffused any general knowledge of India . The Greeks , who were the only enlight- ened race of men at that time in Europe ...
... Persian monarchy . But neither this voyage of Scylax , nor the conquests of Darius , to which it gave rise , diffused any general knowledge of India . The Greeks , who were the only enlight- ened race of men at that time in Europe ...
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... Persians , he was led in pursuit of the last Darius , and of Bessus , the murderer of that unfortunate monarch , to traverse that part of Asia which stretches from the Caspian sea beyond the river Oxus . He advanced towards the east as ...
... Persians , he was led in pursuit of the last Darius , and of Bessus , the murderer of that unfortunate monarch , to traverse that part of Asia which stretches from the Caspian sea beyond the river Oxus . He advanced towards the east as ...
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... Persia . † The scene of this memorable transaction was on the banks of the Hyphasis , the modern Beyah , which was the utmost limit of Alexander's progress in India . From this it is manifest , that he did not traverse the whole extent ...
... Persia . † The scene of this memorable transaction was on the banks of the Hyphasis , the modern Beyah , which was the utmost limit of Alexander's progress in India . From this it is manifest , that he did not traverse the whole extent ...
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... Persian Gulf , that a communication by sea might be opened with India and the center of his dominions . The conduct of this expedition was committed to Nearchus , an officer equal to that important trust . But as Alexander was ambitious ...
... Persian Gulf , that a communication by sea might be opened with India and the center of his dominions . The conduct of this expedition was committed to Nearchus , an officer equal to that important trust . But as Alexander was ambitious ...
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An Historical Disquisition Concerning the Knowledge which the Ancients Had ... William Robertson Visualização integral - 1791 |
An Historical Disquisition Concerning The Knowledge which the Ancients Had ... William Robertson Visualização integral - 1792 |
An Historical Disquisition Concerning the Knowledge which the Ancients Had ... William Robertson Visualização integral - 1792 |
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Página 191 - 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 235 - Having beheld, O Kreeshna! my " kindred thus waiting anxious for the fight, my " members fail me, my countenance withereth, " the hair standeth an end upon my body, and " all my frame trembleth with horror; even " Gandeev, my bow escapeth from my hand, and " my skin is parched and dried...
Página 377 - Instruction, in a series of connected fables, interspersed with moral, prudential and political maxims.
Página 376 - Greek ; and those not in technical and metaphorical terms, which the mutation of refined arts and improved manners might have occasionally introduced, but in the ground-work 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.
Página 248 - Wise men who have abandoned all thought of the fruit which is produced from their actions, are freed from the chains of birth, and go to the regions of eternal happiness...
Página 248 - 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 ; for such an equality is called Yog [ie attention to what is spiritual}.
Página 239 - attended with prosperity ! May propitious breezes " sprinkle, for her delight, the odoriferous dust of " rich blossoms ! May pools of clear water, green " with the leaves of the lotos, refresh her as she " walks ; and may shady branches be her defence " from the scorching sun-beams...
Página 371 - Distinctions of colour are of his ordination. It is he who gives existence. 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.
Página 203 - ... institutions of its country impose, but to acquiesce in them. From his entrance into life an Indian knows the station allotted to him, and the functions to which he is destined by his birth. The objects which relate to these, are the first that present, themselves to his view.
Página 268 - 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.