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 250by Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge - 1902 - 674 pagesFull view - About this book
| Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 478 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 multitude,...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 - 1923 - 578 pages
...parchment were distributed to the "our thousand baths of the city ; and such was their incredible nultitude that six months were barely sufficient for the consumption of this precious fuel. Since the Dynasties of Abulpharagius ls* have been given to the world in a Latin version, the tale... | |
| Jonathan Perkins Weethee - 1897 - 664 pages
...and ought to be destroyed." "The volumes of paper or parchment was distributed to the four thouaand baths of the city and such was their incredible multitude...sufficient for the consumption of this precious fuel," says Gibbon. The size and grandeur of Alexandria, the capital of Egypt, shows its condition at that... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1901 - 676 pages
...Amrou was inclined to gratify the wish of the grammarian, but his rigid integrity refused to alien ate the minutest object without the consent of the caliph;...sufficient for the consumption of this precious fuel. Since the Dynasties of Abulpharagius"0 have been given to the world in a Latin version, the tale has... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1901 - 570 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 186 have been given to the world in a Latin version, the tale... | |
| Henry Cabot Lodge - 1906 - 612 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 multitude...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... | |
| Archibald Henry Sayce - 1906 - 612 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 multitude...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... | |
| David Allyn Gorton - 1910 - 510 pages
...blind obedience," says Gibbon; "the volumes of paper or parchment were distributed to the four thousand baths of the city; and such was their incredible multitude,...barely sufficient for the consumption of this precious fuel."1 But this stupendous mass of literature was not all destroyed. Again large numbers of MSS. fell... | |
| David Allyn Gorton - 1910 - 500 pages
...obedience," says Gibbon ; "the volumes of paper or parchment were distributed to the four thousand baths of the city; and such was their incredible multitude,...barely sufficient for the consumption of this precious fuel."1 But this stupendous mass of literature was not all destroyed. Again large numbers of MSS. fell... | |
| Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1920 - 282 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 multitude...sufficient for the consumption of this precious fuel. . . . The tale has been repeatedly transcribed; and every scholar, with pious indignation, has deplored... | |
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