| ʿAbd al-Razzâḳ b. Najaf Ḳulî - 1833 - 678 pages
...Media, the nobles and princes of the provinces, being before him : when he shewed the palace ; where were white, green, and blue hangings, fastened with...of " red, and blue, and white, and black marble." Esther, cap. i. It is to be observed, that marbles of each of these colours are found at present in... | |
| Charles Williams - 1833 - 284 pages
...feasted all the people that were in Shushan, in the court of the garden of the king's palace, where were white, green, and blue hangings, fastened with...and purple to silver rings, and pillars of marble. Julius Caesar caused the Forum, at Rome, to be covered with fine curtains, as also the whole of the... | |
| 1833 - 930 pages
...palace ; 6 Where mere while, green, and 2 blue hangings, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple U> tood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day. 14 And B of red, and blue, and white, and black marble. 7 And they gave them drink in vessels of gold, (the... | |
| James Forbes - 1834 - 712 pages
...palace, both unto great and small, seven days, in the court of the garden of the king's palace ; where were white, green, and blue hangings, fastened with...pavement of red, and blue, and white, and black marble." — Esther, ch. i. ver. 5, 6. This is exactly descriptive of the shahmyanah, or large canopy, spread... | |
| James Forbes - 1834 - 578 pages
...palace, both unto great and small,seven days, in the court of the garden of the king's palace ; where were white, green, and blue hangings, fastened with...a pavement of red, and blue, and white, and black marble."—Esther, ch. i. ver. 5, 6. This is exactly descriptive of the shahmyanah, or large canopy,... | |
| Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - 1838 - 604 pages
...guests reclined upon couches of gold and silver, beneath a canopy of " white, and green, and violet," fastened " with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and pillars of marble." " The royal wine," in abundance, flowed freely forth, in golden vessels of every variety of form and dimension,... | |
| 1838 - 594 pages
...guests reclined upon couches of gold and silver, beneath a canopy of " white, and green, and violet," fastened " with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and pillars of marble." "The royal wine," in abundance, flowed freely forth, in golden vessels of every variety of form and dimension,... | |
| 1837 - 852 pages
...palace, both unto great and small, seven days, in the court of the garden of the king's palace; 6 Where @ w7 w. white, and black, marble. 7 And they gave them drink in vessels o gold, (the vessels being diverse... | |
| John Forbes Royle - 1837 - 230 pages
...alluded to in Esther, is that of the description of the Court of the garden of the King's palace, where were white, green, and blue hangings, fastened with...and purple to silver rings and pillars of marble. It has been remarked, that cloth of amianthus could never have been got in sufficient quantities for... | |
| 1837 - 628 pages
...magnificent canopy of the skies. Though at the feast of the eastern monarch the palace was adorned with ' white, green, and blue hangings, fastened with cords...and purple, to silver rings, and pillars of marble ; though the couches were of silver and gold, upon a pavement of red, and blue, and black marble ;... | |
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