| J. Forbes Royle - 1851 - 664 páginas
...the court of the Persian palace at Shushau, on the occasion of the great feast given by Ahasuerus, where " were white, green, and blue hangings, fastened...purple to silver rings and pillars of marble." The word corresponding to iff sen is in the Hebrew karpas, and is rendered in the Septuagint and Vulgate... | |
| John Forbes Royle - 1851 - 664 páginas
...the court of the Persian palace at Shushan, on the occasion of the great feast given by Ahasuerus, where " were white, green, and blue hangings, fastened...purple to silver rings and pillars of marble." The word corresponding to green is in the Hebrew karpas, and is rendered in the Septuagint and Vulgate... | |
| Phineas Camp Headley - 1851 - 294 páginas
...fastenings — the tall columns, the golden couches, and tessellated floors — are described as " white, green and blue hangings, fastened with cords...purple to silver rings, and pillars of marble : the beds were of gold and silver, upon a pavement of red, and blue, and black, and white marble." Of this... | |
| Robert Tyas - 1851 - 250 páginas
...the word " green" in the Book of Esther i. 6, should have been " cotton ;" " white cotton and blue, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and pillars of marble." The Cotton-plant may not have been indigenous to Palestine, but there can be no doubt that it was cultivated... | |
| James Fergusson - 1851 - 448 páginas
...intermediate figures, which were probably supplied by curtains, these being " white, green, and blue, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and pillars of marble." * How much farther this animate style of decoration was carried, we do not know, but in the use of... | |
| James Fergusson - 1851 - 408 páginas
...intermediate figures, which were probably supplied by curtains, these being " white, green, and blue, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and pillars of marble." * How much farther this animate style of decoration was carried, we do not know, but in the use of... | |
| Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1852 - 652 páginas
...made a feast unto all the people that were present in Shushan the palace, both unto great and small, seven days, in the court of the garden of the king's...purple to silver rings and pillars of marble : the beds were of gold and silver, upon a pavement of red, and blue, and white, and black marble." (Esth.... | |
| Philip Henry Gosse - 1852 - 744 páginas
...made a feast unto all the people that were present in Shushan the palace, both unto great and small, seven days, in the court of the garden of the king's...purple to silver rings and pillars of marble : the beds were of gold and silver, upon a pavement of red, and blue, and white, and black marble. Esth.... | |
| 1852 - 702 páginas
...colors, and investing the apartments "with purpureal gleams." In the royal garden at Shushan there were " white, green, and blue hangings, fastened with...and purple to silver rings and pillars of marble." Ingenious devices, as wreaths and festoons in stucco and fretwork, arc the ornaments of the upper part... | |
| Philip Henry Gosse - 1852 - 388 páginas
...king's palace." The company seems to have been entertained in a sort of pavilion or tent, com'posed of white, green, and blue hangings, fastened with cords...purple to silver rings and pillars of marble ; the couches on which the guests reclined were of gold and silver ; and the pavement beneath was formed... | |
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