| Charles Wilkinson - 1806 - 484 ˹éÒ
...hundred. The face of the country was interspersed with groves of innumerable palmtrees ; and the.diligent natives celebrated, either in verse or prose, the...fruit, were skilfully applied. Several manufactures employed the industry of a numerous people. Babylon had been I 3 int° into a royal park ; but new... | |
| Herodotus - 1812 - 478 ˹éÒ
...a traveller, has exhausted the whole subject of palm-trees. The diligent natives, adds Mr. Gibbon, celebrated either in verse or prose the three hundred...leaves, the juice, and the fruit were skilfully applied. 147 The process.'] — Upon this subject the learned and industrious Larcher has exhausted no less... | |
| Herodotus - 1814 - 422 ˹éÒ
...a traveller, has exhausted the whole subject of palm-trees. The diligent natives, adds Mr. Gibbon, celebrated either in verse or prose the three hundred...leaves, the juice, and the fruit were skilfully applied. *** The process.] — Upon this subject the learned and industrious Larcher has exhausted no less than... | |
| Thomas Maurice - 1816 - 452 ˹éÒ
...the ground, it springs up again fairer and stronger than ever. The benefits conferred on mankind by the trunk, the branches, the leaves, the juice, and the fruit, were thought innumerable. It will be recollected that pillars fabricated after the beautiful model of the... | |
| Herodotus - 1821 - 482 ˹éÒ
...a traveller, has exhausted the whole subject of palm-trees. The diligent natives, adds Mr. Gibbon, celebrated either in verse or prose the three hundred and sixty uses to winch the trunk, the branches, tbe leaves, the juice, and the fruit were skilfully applied. 217 The... | |
| Thaddeus Mason Harris - 1824 - 474 ˹éÒ
...traveller, has exhausted the whole subject of palm-trees. " The diligent natives (says Mr. Gibbon) celebrated, either in verse or prose, the three hundred...the juice, and the fruit were skilfully applied." The extensive importance of the date-tree (says Dr. Clarke51) is one of the most curious subjects to... | |
| Maria Gowen Brooks - 1825 - 72 ˹éÒ
...translation of Herodotus. Mr. Gibbon adds, that the diligent natives celebrated, either in verse or prose, three hundred and sixty uses to which the trunk, the branches, the leaves, the juice and the fruit of this plant were applied. Nothing can be more curious and interesting than the natural history of... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 864 ˹éÒ
...hundred. The face of the country was interspersed with groves of innumerable palm-trees; and the diligent natives celebrated, either in verse or prose, the...foreign trade; which appears, however, to have been conducted by the hands of strangers. Babylon had been converted into a royal park ; but near the ruins... | |
| 1826 - 524 ˹éÒ
...traveller, has exhausted the whole subject of palm-trees. ' The diligent natives (says Mr. Gibbon) celebrated, either in verse or prose, the three hundred...the juice, and the fruit were skilfully applied.' The extensive importance of the date-tree (says Dr. Clarke*) is one of the most '• curious subjects... | |
| James Lawson Drummond - 1826 - 420 ˹éÒ
...markets, entirely from this tree. Gibbon, the historian, writing of the palmtree, adds, that the Asiatics celebrated, either in verse or prose, the three hundred...the juice, and the fruit, were skilfully applied." * * Forties's Oriental Memoirs, vol. ip 23. CONCLUSION. I HAVE now, reader, introduced you to a slight... | |
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