A Dissertation on the Languages, Literature, and Manners of Eastern Nations: Originally Prefixed to a Dictionary, Persian, Arabic, and EnglishPrinted at the Clarendon Press, 1778 - 288 pages |
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... Mythology : IN ANSWER TO An APOLOGY , addreffed to the Author , by JACOB BRYANT , ESQ . BY JOHN RICHARDSON , Esq . F. S. A. OF THE MIDDLE TEMPLE , AND OF WADHAM COLLEGE , OXFORD , OXFORD : PRINTED AT THE CLARENDON PRESS . SOLD BY J ...
... Mythology : IN ANSWER TO An APOLOGY , addreffed to the Author , by JACOB BRYANT , ESQ . BY JOHN RICHARDSON , Esq . F. S. A. OF THE MIDDLE TEMPLE , AND OF WADHAM COLLEGE , OXFORD , OXFORD : PRINTED AT THE CLARENDON PRESS . SOLD BY J ...
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... mythology , and man- ners . Syftematic writers on the actions of mankind always to be doubted . The Grecian biftory of Ancient Perfia queftionable . The great object of hiftory to improve fociety . Impro- bability not CONTENTS .
... mythology , and man- ners . Syftematic writers on the actions of mankind always to be doubted . The Grecian biftory of Ancient Perfia queftionable . The great object of hiftory to improve fociety . Impro- bability not CONTENTS .
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... Mythology . CHAPTER SECT . I. p . 104 III . Obfervations on Eaftern manners . Conjectures on channels through which Eaftern cuftoms may have flowed into Europe . Improbability of the expedition of Oden from the Euxine to Scandinavia ...
... Mythology . CHAPTER SECT . I. p . 104 III . Obfervations on Eaftern manners . Conjectures on channels through which Eaftern cuftoms may have flowed into Europe . Improbability of the expedition of Oden from the Euxine to Scandinavia ...
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... Mythology . SECT . II . 380 p . Inconfiftency of the Chronology of the Analyfis . SECT . III . P. 387 Of Mr. Bryant's Theory of the Difperfion ; and of the expeditions of the Sons of Chus . p.394 SECT . IV . Of Sanconiathon , Manetho ...
... Mythology . SECT . II . 380 p . Inconfiftency of the Chronology of the Analyfis . SECT . III . P. 387 Of Mr. Bryant's Theory of the Difperfion ; and of the expeditions of the Sons of Chus . p.394 SECT . IV . Of Sanconiathon , Manetho ...
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... mythology of ancient Greece . His language may , at the fame time , be confidered as the most refined dialect of the older Perfian or Deri ; the Ara- bic being introduced with a very sparing hand : whilft Sadi , Jami , Hafez , and other ...
... mythology of ancient Greece . His language may , at the fame time , be confidered as the most refined dialect of the older Perfian or Deri ; the Ara- bic being introduced with a very sparing hand : whilft Sadi , Jami , Hafez , and other ...
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Abydenus Afia Afiatic againſt alfo almoſt alſo amongſt ancient appear Arabian Arabic Arabic languages Artaxerxes Mnemon becauſe Berofus Bryant called chronology circumftance confequence confidered courſe cuſtom Cuthites D'Herbelot Darab Darius dialects diſcover diſtinguiſhed dynaſty Eaft Eaſt Eaſtern empire eſpecially eſtabliſhed expreffed faid fame fays feems fent fhall fignifies fimilar fingular firſt fome fometimes foon ftill fubject fuch fufficient fuperior fuppofed fupport furniſh fyftem greateſt Grecian Greece Greeks Herodotus hiftorians himſelf hiſtory impoffible Jengiz Khan Khalif king of Perfia language laſt learned author learned gentleman leaſt moft Mohammed moſt muft muſt Mythology neral Noah Oannes obferved occafion Perfian perfon poffibly prefent prince reaſon reign reſemblance reſpect Scythians SECT ſeems Septuagint ſhall ſhe ſhould Simurgh ſome ſtate ſtill Sultan ſuppoſed Syria ſyſtem Tahmuras Tamerlane Tartar thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe thouſand tion tranflated uſed Vizir whilft whofe whoſe wiſh words writers Xerxes