Indian Antiquities: Or, Dissertations, Relative to the Ancient Geographic Divisions, the Pure System of Primeval Theology ... of Hindostan: Compared, Throughout, with the Religion, Laws, Government, and Literature of Persia, Egypt, and Greece, the Whole Intended as Introductory to the History of Hindostan Upon a Comprehensive Scale, Volume 7T. Maurice, 1806 - India |
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... less considerable . Probably Josephus gives us the true amount of that wealth , when he states the whole at the round sum of 100,000 talents ; that is , the Alexandrian talent , most in use at the period of his writing . Hiero , the ...
... less considerable . Probably Josephus gives us the true amount of that wealth , when he states the whole at the round sum of 100,000 talents ; that is , the Alexandrian talent , most in use at the period of his writing . Hiero , the ...
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... less surprising ; and this display we find in the colossal image of gold which Nebuchadnezzar , after the plun- der of Jerusalem , and probably from the superb spoils of its temple and royal palace , erected to his god Belus , that is ...
... less surprising ; and this display we find in the colossal image of gold which Nebuchadnezzar , after the plun- der of Jerusalem , and probably from the superb spoils of its temple and royal palace , erected to his god Belus , that is ...
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... less display hospitality blended with munificence to the other ; for , when Xerxes marched with his innumerable army against Greece , the same Pythias not only entertained , at Celænæ , in Phrygia , the whole of this vast army , but ...
... less display hospitality blended with munificence to the other ; for , when Xerxes marched with his innumerable army against Greece , the same Pythias not only entertained , at Celænæ , in Phrygia , the whole of this vast army , but ...
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... less important and interesting , their coined money , which , according to the general judg- ment of medallic writers , was not in existence before the conquest of Babylon by Cyrus ; though others , on the credit of Herodotus , fix the ...
... less important and interesting , their coined money , which , according to the general judg- ment of medallic writers , was not in existence before the conquest of Babylon by Cyrus ; though others , on the credit of Herodotus , fix the ...
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... less urgency of the want , in general , fixed the higher or in- ferior price of the commodity ; but the eye was often the sole judge , and quantity the chief rule of determining . There is a curious account in Cosmas , called ...
... less urgency of the want , in general , fixed the higher or in- ferior price of the commodity ; but the eye was often the sole judge , and quantity the chief rule of determining . There is a curious account in Cosmas , called ...
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Page 107 - The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists...
Page 236 - And this is the offering which ye shall take of them; gold, and silver, and brass, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats...
Page 259 - Where were white, green, and blue hangings, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple, to silver rings, and pillars of marble : the beds were , of gdld and silver, upon a pavement of red and blue, and white, and black marble.
Page 164 - The flesh of the antelope and the rhinoceros give my beloved" (ie the goddess KALI,) " delight for five hundred years. " By a human sacrifice, attended by the forms laid down, DEVI is pleased one thousand years ; and by a sacrifice of three men, one hundred thousand years.
Page 328 - And it came to pass, that in the morning, behold, it was Leah : and he said to Laban, What is this thou hast done unto me ? did not I serve with thee for Rachel ? wherefore then hast thou beguiled me ? 26 And Laban said, It must not be so done in * our country, to give the younger before the firstborn.
Page 278 - And thou shalt set in it settings of stones, even four rows of stones: the first row shall be a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle: this shall be the first row. 18 And the second row shall be an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond.
Page 279 - Six of their names on one stone, and the other six names of the rest on the other stone, according to their birth.
Page 343 - Let him choose for his wife a girl, whose form has no defect ; who has an agreeable name ; who walks gracefully like a phenicopteros, or like a young elephant ; whose hair and teeth are moderate respectively in quantity and in size ; whose body has exquisite softness.
Page 353 - A mansion infested by age and by sorrow ; the seat of malady, harassed with pains, haunted with the quality of darkness, and incapable of standing long; such a mansion of the vital soul, let its occupier always cheerfully quit.
Page 353 - A mansion with bones for its rafters and beams ; with nerves and tendons for cords ; with muscles and blood for mortar ; with skin for its outward covering; filled with no sweet perfume, but loaded with...