 | Thomas Maurice - 1806 - 402 trang
...records of such unfathomable antiquity ; and he will probably hence renew the suspicion which has long been deemed absurd, that Alexander the Great did absolutely...investigation. The word fire-arms is literally, in Sanscreet, Agnee-aster, a weapon of fire. They describe the first species of it to have been a kind... | |
 | Henry Wilkinson - 1841 - 422 trang
...of such unfathomable antiquity, and he will probably from hence renew the suspicion which has long been deemed absurd, that Alexander the Great did absolutely...ascertain. Gunpowder has been known in China as well as in Hindustan far beyond all periods of investigation. The word fire-arms is literally Shanscrit, Agnee-aster... | |
 | Henry Wilkinson (M.R.A.S.) - 1841 - 370 trang
...of such unfathomable antiquity, and he will probably from hence renew the suspicion which has long been deemed absurd, that Alexander the Great did absolutely...ascertain. Gunpowder has been known in China as well HJni225tan far beyond all periods of iniun The word fire-arms is literally tacr.tp Agnee-aster (agnyastra),... | |
 | 1844 - 498 trang
...records of such unfathomable antiquity, and he will probably hence renew the suspicion, which has long been deemed absurd, that Alexander the Great did absolutely meet with some weapons of this kind in India, as a passage in Quintus Curtius seems to ascertain. Gunpowder has been known in... | |
 | Thomas Burgeland Johnson - 1848 - 1102 trang
...records of such unfathomable antiquity ; and he will probably hence renew the suspicion which has long been deemed absurd, that Alexander the Great did absolutely...a passage in Quintus Curtius seems to ascertain." There is also, (says Mr. Grose) the following antient testimony to this point in Grey's Gunnery, printed... | |
 | Sir Henry Miers Elliot - 1849 - 666 trang
...Jehanyir, p. 25. Teiinant's Indian Recreations, Vol. I. p. -244. § Moor's Hindu Pantheon, p. 299. some weapons of that kind in India, as a passage in...ascertain. Gunpowder has been known in China, as well as Hindustan, far beyond all periods of investigation. The word fire-arms is literally the Sanscrit '... | |
 | 1855 - 534 trang
...in records of such remote antiquity, and he will probably hence renew the suspicion, which has long been deemed absurd, that Alexander the Great did absolutely meet with some weapons of this kind in India, as a passage in Quintius Curtius seems to ascertain. Gunpowder has been known in... | |
 | John Scoffern - 1852 - 232 trang
...Thomson's History of Chemistry. antiquity, and he will probably hence renew the suspicion, which has long been deemed absurd, that Alexander the Great did absolutely meet with some weapons of this kind in India, as a passage in. Quintus Curtius seems to ascertain. Gunpowder has been known in... | |
 | 1858 - 798 trang
...records of such unfathomable antiquity; and he will, probably, hence renew the suspicion, which has long been deemed absurd, that Alexander the Great did absolutely meet with some weapons of this kind hi India, as a passage in Quintus Curtius seems to ascertain. Gunpowder has been known in... | |
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... hence renew the suspicion which has long been deemed absurd, that Alexander the Great did absolutely meet with some weapons of that kind in India as a passage in Quintus Curtius seems to ascertain. Gunpowder has been known in China, as well as in... 
