 | Nathan Drake - English literature - 1800 - 482 pages
...was built on the eastern bank of the Tigris, and its population during the ninth century was so great that the funeral of a popular saint might be attended...thousand men and sixty thousand women of Bagdad and the neighbouring villages. Here, amid the luxuries of the east, the once temperate and simple Caliphs of... | |
 | Charles Wilkinson - Greece - 1806 - 484 pages
...elegance of its structure, the number of students it contained, as well as the learned men it produced. In this " city of peace," amidst the riches of the East, the Abassides soon aspired to emulate the magnificence of the Persian kings. After his wars and buildings,... | |
 | David Ramsay - World history - 1819 - 386 pages
...of the Tigris. It increased rapidly ; and became the imperial seat of the Abbassides for 5OO years. In this city of peace, amidst the riches of the East, the Abbassides soon disdained the frugality of the first caliphs, and aspired to emulate the magnificence of the Persian kings. Almansor... | |
 | 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...thousand women of Bagdad and the adjacent villages." The magnificence displayed in the palace of the caliph could only be exceeded by that of the Persian... | |
 | 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 siity thousand women of Bagdad and the adjacent village«. In this city of peace, amidst the riches... | |
 | 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 that situati bt attended by eight hundred thousand men ana «ixty thousand women of Bagdad and the adjacent vilbjcf.... | |
 | Edward Bishop Elliott - Bible - 1847 - 606 pages
...is further noted by historians as that of the decline of the Saracenic power. So Gibbon observes ; 5 "In this City of Peace, amidst the riches of the East, the Abbasides aspired to emulate the magnificence of the Persian Kings ; "—" The luxury of the Caliphs... | |
 | 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...this city of peace, amidst the riches of the east, th« AblMkssides soon disdained the abstinence and frugality of the first caliphs. and aspired to emulate... | |
 | 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...villages. In this city of peace, amidst the riches of the cast, the Abbassides soon disdained the abstinence and frugality of the first caliphs, and aspired... | |
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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... 
