 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1707 - 462 pages
...Pythagorean Life } and there they have built 400 Pagodes , two whereof are confiderable for their greatnels and finery, being lately covered with green and yellow...finely grav'd and gilded, the chief whereof is the Idol Qtton-em. To jthe'fe two great Pagodes belong two chief priefts, who govern all the reft. They have... | |
 | Edmond Halley - 1707 - 456 pages
...Pythagorean Life ; and there they have built 400 Pagodes , two whereof are confiderable for their greatneft and finery, being lately covered with green and yellow Tiles brought from the femperor's Palace at Nankin, and inwardly adorn'd with ftately Idols finely gray'd and gilded, the... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1749 - 894 pages
...hundred Pagodes, two whereof are confiderable for their Greatnefs and Finery, being lately cover'd with green and yellow Tiles brought from the Emperor's Palace at Nankin, and inwardly adorn'd with (lately Idols finely grav'd and gilded, the chief whereof is the Idol Quon-em. To thefe two great Pagodes... | |
 | Robert Kerr - 1824 - 584 pages
...have built four hundred pagodas, two of which are considerable for their size and splendour, and were lately covered with green and yellow tiles, brought from the emperor's palace at Nankin. They are adorned within by stately idols, finely carved and gilded, the chief of these being an idol... | |
 | John Francis Davis - 1841 - 356 pages
...they have built above four hundred pagodas (temples), two whereof are considerable for their greatness and finery, being lately covered with green and yellow tiles brought from the emperor's palace at Nanking ;* and inwardly adorned with stately idols finely carved and gilded, the chief whereof is the... | |
 | E. Bretschneider - 1881 - 208 pages
...Pythagorean life ; and there they have built 400 pagodas, two whereof are considerable for their greatness and finery, being lately covered with green and "yellow tiles brought from the emperors pallace at Nankin, and inwardly adorned with statelyidols finely graved and gilded, the chief... | |
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Greatnefs and Finery, being lately covered with green and yellow Tiles brought from the Emperor's Palace at Nankin ; and inwardly adorn'd with ftately Idols finely grav'd and gilded, the chief whereof is the Idol Quon-em. To thefe two great Pagodes belong... 