The sentence was executed with blind obedience, the volumes of paper or parchment were distributed to the four thousand baths of the city; and such was their incredible multitude that six months were barely sufficient for the consumption of this precious... The Nile: Notes for Travellers in Egypt - Page 252by Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge - 1901 - 671 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1802 - 888 pages
...blind obedience: ' the volumes oí paper or parch* ment were distributed to the four ' thousand baths; and such was ' their incredible multitude, that '...were barely sufficient * for the consumption of this pre* ¿ious fuel. Since the Dynasties of * Abulpharagius have been given ' to the world in a Latin... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 488 pages
...volumes of paper or parchment were distributed to the four thousand baths of the city; and such wastheir incredible multitude, that six months were barely...sufficient for the consumption of this precious fuel. Since the Dynasties of Abulpharagius116 have been given to the world in a Latin version, the tale has... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1806 - 526 pages
...executed with blind obedience; the volumes of paper or parchment were distributed to the four thousand baths of the city ; and such was their incredible...sufficient for the consumption of this precious fuel. Since the Dynasties of Abulpharagius * have been given to the world in a Latin version, the tale has... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1806 - 526 pages
...obedience; the volumes of paper or parchmentwere distributed tothe/bur thousand baths of the city«J and such was their incredible multitude, that six months were barely sufficient for the con4Utpl|#i<«i<<rf>*hJ5 preeiofrs fuel. Since the Dynasties of Abulpharagius * have been given to... | |
| Thomas Hartwell Horne - 1814 - 970 pages
...parchment were distributed to the four thousand baths of the city; and such was their incredible number, that six months were barely sufficient for the consumption of this precious fuel 1 . § 7. LIBRARIES OF THE GREEKS. Of Grecian Literature or History we have no authentic information,... | |
| 1817 - 494 pages
...The*1 volumes of paper, or parchment, were distributed to the four thousand baths of the city ; and six months were barely sufficient for the consumption of this precious fuel. *16. 1794. — GIBBON DIED. It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June, 1787, between... | |
| David Ramsay - 1819 - 386 pages
...with blind obedience; the volumes of paper or parchment were distributed to the four thousand fcutha of the city; and such was their incredible multitude,...sufficient for the consumption of this precious fuel. This tale Las been repeatedly transcribed from Abulpharagius; and cve;y scholar, with pious indignation,... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 546 pages
...with blind obedience: the volumes of paper, or parchment, were distributed among the four thousand baths of the city ; and such was their incredible...sufficient for the consumption of this precious fuel. Since the dynasties of Abulpharagius have been given to the w r orld in a Latin version, the tale has... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1831 - 522 pages
...same name, was equal to old Philoponus in diligence, and far superior in good sense and mal knowledge. multitude, that six months were barely sufficient for the consumption of this precious fuel. Since the Dynasties of Abulpharagius(ll6) have been given to the world in a Latin version, the tale... | |
| Richard Watson - 1832 - 1030 pages
...paper or parchment were distributed to the four thousand baths of the city; and such was their number, that six months were barely sufficient for the consumption of this precious fuel. ALGUM, вЛк or D'DU1?«, 1 Kings x, 11, 12. This is the name of a kind of wood, or tree, large quantities... | |
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