| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1826 - 624 pages
...superstition, unless indeed they are fraudulently kept up as necessary to blind the eyes of the populace. ' The residence of the White Elephant is contiguous...connected by a long open gallery, supported by numerous wooden pillars, at the further end of which a curtain of black velvet, embossed with gold, conceals... | |
| Aaron Arrowsmith - 1831 - 970 pages
...ambassadors; the order of precedence in Ava being 1st. the king, 2d. the white elephant, and 3d. the queen. The residence of the white elephant is contiguous...connected by a long open gallery supported by numerous wooden pillars, »t the farther end of which a curtain of black velvet, embossed with gold, conceals... | |
| Aaron Arrowsmith - 1832 - 546 pages
...ambassadors ; the order of precedence in Ava being 1st. the king, 2d. the white elephant, and 3d. the queen. The residence of the white elephant is contiguous...connected by a long open gallery supported by numerous wooden pillars, at the farther end of which a curtain of black velvet, embossed with gold, conceals... | |
| Aaron Arrowsmith - 1839 - 880 pages
...ambassadors ; the order of precedence in Ava being 1 st. the king, 2d. the white elephant, and 3d. the queen. The residence of the white elephant is contiguous to the royal palace, witli which it is connected by a long open gallery supported by numerous wooden pillar», at the farther... | |
| Alfred Radford Symonds - 1845 - 430 pages
...and the want of one would be deemed a sure sign of some great evil about to come upon the country. The residence of the white elephant is contiguous to the royal palace, and connected with it by a long open gallery, at the further end of which a curtain of velvet embroidered... | |
| 1847 - 788 pages
...the king ; second, the white elephant ; third, the queen. The residence of the white elephant adjoins the royal palace, with which it is connected by a long open gallery, at the farther end of which, a curtain of black velvet embossed with gold, conceals the august animal... | |
| Joachim Hayward Stocqueler - 1848 - 372 pages
...and the want of one would be deemed a sure sign of some great evil about to come •upon the country. The residence of the white elephant is contiguous to the royal palace, and connected with it by a long open gallery, at the further end of which a curtain of velvet embroidered... | |
| Shilling - 1857 - 98 pages
...ELEPHANT. — The following is the account of the sacred animal, which was white from disease : — " The residence of the White Elephant is contiguous...with which it is connected by a long open gallery, at the further end of which a black velvet curtain, embossed with gold, conceals the august animal... | |
| James Hough - 1860 - 724 pages
...attended with great devotion, even by the monarch himself. The following account of this singular custom ought to inspire deep commiseration for a whole empire...offered to him, consisting of gold and silver muslins, broad cloths, otto of roses, rose-water, Benares brocades, tea, &c. &c., were displayed on carpets.... | |
| George Winfred Hervey - 1884 - 888 pages
...the last stage of many millions of transmigrations through which a soul passes on its way to nigban. The residence of the white elephant is contiguous to the royal palace. A lofty curtain of black velvet, richly embossed with gold, conceals the animal from the common eye.... | |
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