 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1807 - 492 pages
...chofen fpot is on the Eaftern bank of the Tigris ; and fuch was the rapid increufe of the , new capital, that the funeral of a popular faint might be attended...thoufand women of Bagdad and the adjacent villages. The Abbaffides foon difdained the abftincnce of the firft caliphs, and afpired to emulate the magnificence... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...miles above the sofModain: the double wall was of a circular form; and such wa^ the rapid еаяи enlivening strain ; ш U o'er, m ENGLISH LITERATURE. 183 The Hermit. At the C í might be attended by eiirht hundred thousand men and sixty thousand ¡en of Bagdad and the adjacent... | |
 | Joseph Gwilt - Architects - 1842 - 1114 pages
...; the double wall was of a circular form ; " and such," says Gibbon, •• was the rapid increase of a capital, now dwindled to a provincial town, that the funeral of a popular saint might be attended by eight hundred thousand men and sixty thousand women of Bagdad and the adjacent... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...fruitions of the teatifie vision.' double wall was of a circular form ; and such was the rapid increase irst to die, Crushed by her meagre hand when welcomed from saint might be attended by eight hundred thousand men and siity thousand women of Bagdad and the adjacent... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...fruitions of tho beatific vision/ double wall was of a circular form ; and such was tht rapid increase d his evenings to the enlightened and polished society which had gathered in saint might bt attended by eight hundred thousand men ana «ixty thousand women of Bagdad and the adjacent... | |
 | John Seely Hart - Readers - 1845 - 404 pages
...above the ruins of Modain : the double wall was of a circular form ; and such was the rapid increase of a capital now dwindled to a provincial town, that the funeral of a popular saint might be attended by eight hundred thousand men and sixty thousand women of Bagdad and the adjacent... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 616 pages
...above the ruins of Modain; the double wall was of a circular form, and such was the rapid increase of a capital now dwindled to a provincial town, that the funeral of a popular saint might be attended by eight hundred thousand men and sixty thousand women of Bagdad and the adjacent... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1855 - 496 pages
...above the rains of Moclain : the double wall was of a circular form ; and such was the rapid increase of a capital now dwindled to a provincial town, that the funeral of a popular saint might be attended by eight hundred thousand men and sixty thousand women of Bagdad and the adjacent... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1858 - 608 pages
...above the ruins of Modain ; the double wall was of a circular form, and such was the rapid increase of a capital now dwindled to a provincial town, that the funeral of a popular saint might be attended by eight hundred thousand men and sixty thousand women of Bagdad and the adjacent... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - Readers (Secondary) - 1866 - 568 pages
...above the ruins of °Modain: tho double wall was of a circular form ; and such was the rapid increase of a capital now dwindled to a provincial town, that the funeral of a popular saint might be attended by eight hundred thousand men and sixty thousand women of Bagdad and the adjacent... | |
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The chosen spot is on the eastern bank of the Tigris, about fifteen miles above the ruins of Modain : the double wall was of a circular form ; and such was the rapid increase of a capital now dwindled to a provincial town, that the funeral of a popular... 
