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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... considerable progress in that career . The wisdom of the East was early celebrated , * and its productions were early in request among distant nations . The intercourse , however , between dif- ferent countries was carried on at first ...
... considerable progress in that career . The wisdom of the East was early celebrated , * and its productions were early in request among distant nations . The intercourse , however , between dif- ferent countries was carried on at first ...
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... considerable cargo of goods , to a distant coast , the progress of improvement is immense . Many efforts would be made , many experiments would be tried , and much labour as well as ingenuity would be employed , before this arduous and ...
... considerable cargo of goods , to a distant coast , the progress of improvement is immense . Many efforts would be made , many experiments would be tried , and much labour as well as ingenuity would be employed , before this arduous and ...
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... considerable and most lucrative . As by their situation on the Mediterranean , and the imperfect state of navigation , they could not attempt to open a direct communication with India by sea ; the enterprizing spirit of commerce ...
... considerable and most lucrative . As by their situation on the Mediterranean , and the imperfect state of navigation , they could not attempt to open a direct communication with India by sea ; the enterprizing spirit of commerce ...
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... considerable , and rendered the conveyance of goods to it by land carriage so tedious and expen sive , that it became necessary for them to take pos- session of Rhinocolura , the nearest port in the Me- diterranean to the Arabian Gulf ...
... considerable , and rendered the conveyance of goods to it by land carriage so tedious and expen sive , that it became necessary for them to take pos- session of Rhinocolura , the nearest port in the Me- diterranean to the Arabian Gulf ...
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... considerable than that which he made by the route we formerly traced ; and * See NOTE VI , ↑ Strabo , lib . xv . p . 1014 , when we attend to the various movements of his troops SECT . I. 19 CONCERNING ANCIENT INDIA .
... considerable than that which he made by the route we formerly traced ; and * See NOTE VI , ↑ Strabo , lib . xv . p . 1014 , when we attend to the various movements of his troops SECT . I. 19 CONCERNING ANCIENT INDIA .
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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.