 | James Mill - 1817 - 688 páginas
...each other : within them the floors glowed with double and triple carpets of the brightest colours; and the walls were adorned with those beautiful tissues...fine, yet firm texture was employed as the fittest cloathing for eastern kings. The looms of Babylon, and of the neighbouring Borsippa, a town owing its... | |
 | John Gillies - 1820 - 596 páginas
...other I27 ; within them the floors glowed with double and triple carpets of the brightest colours 128 ; and the walls were adorned with those beautiful tissues...employed as the fittest clothing for eastern kings. 129 The looms of Babylon, and of the neighbouring Borsippa, a town owing its prosperity to manufactures... | |
 | John Gillies - 1820 - 592 páginas
...other127; within them the floors glowed with double and triple carpets of the brightest colours 12s ; and the walls were adorned with those beautiful tissues...employed as the fittest clothing for eastern kings. 12s* The looms of Babylon, and of the neighbouring Borsippa, a town owing its prosperity to manufactures... | |
 | John Gillies - 1820 - 1214 páginas
...other127; within them the floors glowed with double and triple carpets of the brightest colours 128 ; and the walls were adorned with those beautiful tissues...employed as the fittest clothing for eastern kings. 1W The looms of Babylon, and of the neighbouring Borsippa, a town owing its prosperity to manufactures... | |
 | James Mill - 1840 - 556 páginas
...each other : within them the floors glowed with double and triple carpets of the brightest colours ; and the walls were adorned with those beautiful tissues...employed as the fittest clothing for eastern kings. The looms of Babylon, and of the neighbouring Borsippa, a town owing its prosperity to manufactures... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1846 - 562 páginas
...manufacturing town in the neighborhood of the capital, supplied those beautiful tissues called situlunm, whose fine, yet firm texture was employed as the fittest clothing for Eastern kings. 9. Every Babylonian is said to have worn an engraved gem, which served for a signet, and which was... | |
 | James Mill, Horace Hayman Wilson - 1848 - 546 páginas
...each other: within them the floors glowed with double and triple carpets of the brightest colours ; and the walls were adorned with those beautiful tissues...Sindones, whose fine yet firm texture, was employed aa the fittest clothing for eastern kings. The looms of Babylon, and of the neighbouring Borsippa,... | |
 | James Mill - 1858 - 516 páginas
...other : within them the floors glowed with double and triple carpets of the brightest colours ; anil the walls were adorned with those beautiful tissues...Sindones, whose fine yet firm texture was employed as the nttest clothing for eastern kings. The looms of Babylon, and of the neighbouring Borsippa, a town owing... | |
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The looms of Babylon, and of the neighbouring Borsippa, a town owing its prosperity to manufactures wholly, supplied to all countries round, the finest veils or hangings, and every article of dress or furniture composed of cotton, of linen, or of wool. 