An Historical Disquisition Concerning the Knowledge which the Ancients Had of IndiaCadell and Davies, 1817 - 403 стор. |
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accuracy acquired æra Alexander Alexandria ancient appear Arabian Gulf Arrian arts Asia astronomical attention authors Bactria Baghvat-Geeta Brahmins Cape Cape Comorin caravans carried Caspian Caspian sea China cities coast commerce commodities concerning conquests considerable considered Constantinople conveyed Coromandel coast course D'Anville degree Disquisition dominion earth East Egypt empire established Europe Europeans extensive formed Ganges geography Greek Herodotus Hindoos Hist hundred idea Indostan Indus inhabitants intercourse island Jogue kingdom knowledge known labour land Mahomedans Malabar Malabar coast manner Megasthenes ment mentioned merchants mode modern monarchs nations natives nature navigation Nearchus NOTE observed ocean opinion opulence Pagodas Persian Persian Gulf places Pliny ports Portuguese possession productions progress provinces Ptolemy religion rendered respect river Romans S E C sailed Sanskreet Scylax SECT silk Strabo Syria thousand tion trade with India various Venetians visited voyage writers
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Сторінка 187 - 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.
Сторінка 244 - 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.
Сторінка 367 - Akber, whose throne is now in heaven, conducted 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...
Сторінка 367 - 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. To vilify the religion or customs of other men, is to set at naught the pleasure of the Almighty.
Сторінка 49 - ... who have desolated the earth, and the freaks of tyrants who have rendered nations unhappy, are recorded with minute and often disgusting accuracy, while the discovery of useful arts, and the progress of the most beneficial branches of commerce, are passed over in silence, and suffered to sink into oblivion.
Сторінка 373 - Instruction, in a series of connected fables, interspersed with moral, prudential, and political maxims.
Сторінка 257 - They have established among themselves a regular hierarchy and gradation of ranks, which, by securing subordination in their own order, adds weight to their authority, . and gives them a more absolute dominion over the minds of the people.
Сторінка 197 - None of these can ever quit his own caste, or be admitted into another. The station of every individual is unalterably fixed ; his destiny is irrevocable ; and the walk of life is marked out, from which he must never deviate.
Сторінка 236 - It is thy adopted child, the little " fawn, whose mouth, when the sharp points of " Cusa grass had wounded it, has been so often
Сторінка 264 - 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.