 | Constable and co, ltd - 1829 - 764 páginas
...impossible for me to enumerate the variety of its riches and beauty. It contains 4000 palaces, 4000 baths, 400 theatres or places of amusement, 12,000 shops for the sale of vegetables, and 40,000 tributary Jews." The superb Alexandrian Library formed the subject of a query... | |
 | Anniversary calendar - 1832 - 600 páginas
...riches and beauty ; and I shall content myself with observing, that it contains 4000 palaces, 4000 baths, 400 theatres or places of amusement, 12,000...by Cleopatra) was then destroyed to feed the baths. That collection consisted of the treasures in the Serapion of 300,000 volumes and those 200,000 rolls... | |
 | Augustin Calmet - 1832 - 1060 páginas
...its riches and beauty ; I shall content myself with oliserving that it contains 4000 palaces, 4000 baths, 400 theatres or places of amusement, 12,000 shops for the sale of vegetable goods, and 40,000 tributary Jews." With this event, ьауя a modern geographer, the sun of Alexandria... | |
 | Andrew Crichton - 1834 - 432 páginas
...its riches and beauty ; and I shall content myself with observing that it contains 4000 palaces, 4000 baths, 400 theatres or places of amusement, 12,000...sale of vegetable food, and 40,000 tributary Jews. The town has been subdued by force of arms, without treaty or capitulation, and the Moslems are eager... | |
 | William Carpenter - 1836 - 776 páginas
...of its riches and beauty: I shall content myself with observing that it contains 4000 palaces, 4000 baths, 400 theatres or places of amusement, 12,000 shops for the sale of vegetable goods, and 40,000 tributary Jews." With this event, says a modern geographer, the sun of Alexandria... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - 1841 - 1052 páginas
...caliph with its capture, said, " We have taken the great city of the West. It is impossible for mo to enumerate the variety of Its riches and beauty...sale of vegetable food, and 40,000 tributary Jews. The town has been subdued by force of arms, without treaty or capitulation." It was on this occasion... | |
 | Charles Bucke - 1841 - 370 páginas
...riches and beauty ; I shall content myself with observing that it contains 4000 palaces, 4000'baths, 400 theatres or places of amusement, 12,000 shops...sale of vegetable food, and 40,000 tributary Jews." He then related •what Philoponus had requested of him. " If these •writings of the Greeks," answered... | |
 | John Gardner Wilkinson - 1843 - 690 páginas
...436. TAKING OF ALEXANDRIA. 471 shall content myself with observing that it contains 4000 palaces, 4000 baths, 400 theatres, or places of amusement, 12,000 shops for the sale of vegetables and food, and 40,000 tributary Jews. The town lias been subdued by force of arms without... | |
 | 1860 - 620 páginas
...months, took Alexandria, " the great city of the West, with its 4000 palaces, 4000 baths, 400 theaters, 12,000 shops for the sale of vegetable food, and 40,000 tributary Jews" — above all, with its splendid library, which, according to a story, rightly questioned in our own... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 838 páginas
...great city of the west. It is impossible for me to enumerate the variety of its riches and beauty ; 1 shall content myself with observing, that it contains...amusement, 12,000 shops for the sale of vegetable »oods, and 40,000 tributary Jews." It consisted at this time, according to the Arabian accounts, of... | |
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I shall content myself with observing that it contains 4000 palaces, 4000 baths, 400 theatres or places of amusement, 12,000 shops for the sale of vegetable food, and 40,000 tributary Jews. 
