 | Thomas Harmer - 1776 - 516 pages
...was by no means neceflary that their feet mould be naked. 7 Maundrell, p. 125, fpeaks of mud-walls, and doors adorned with marble portals, carved and inlaid with great beauty. 1 P. 206. a Figure prife de ceux qui font ce mortier compofe de chaux & de cendre corroyee de bains.... | |
 | John Wesley - 1786 - 738 pages
...primitive example their fucccfTors have followed ever fince. But however, in the ft mud walls you find the gates and doors adorned with marble portals, carved and inlaid with great beauty and variety. In the infide, ihe houfe.i difcover a Very different fare« Here you find generally a large fquare... | |
 | Universal history - 1779 - 492 pages
...fireets are very narrow, are all built, on the outfide, .either with •fun-burnt -brick, or :Hemifli .wall ; and yet it is no uncommon thing to fee the...gates and .doors adorned with marble por-tals, carved atid inlaid with great beauty and variety ; and, within thefe portals, to find large fquare courts,... | |
 | Edward Wells - 1801 - 394 pages
...primitive example their fuccefTors have followed ever fince. But however in thefe mud walls you find the gates and doors adorned with marble portals, carved and inlaid with great beauty and variety. It is an objedt not a little furprifing, to fee mud and marble, ftate and fordidnefs fo mingled •... | |
 | Charles Wilkinson - 1806 - 484 pages
...outside with sun-burnt bricks ; and yet it is DO uncommon thing to see the gates and doors adorned adorned with marble portals, carved and inlaid with great beauty and variety : and within are large square courts, planted with fragrant trees, and adorned with marble fountains. The ceilings... | |
 | Noah Webster - 1806 - 304 pages
...80,000. Most of these ar.e Arabs and Turks. The houses are built with brick, and many of them have gates and doors adorned with marble portals, carved and inlaid with great beauty. Within these are large square courts ornamented with fragrant trees and marble fountains, encompassed... | |
 | 1815 - 480 pages
...becomes, by the washing of the houses, an entire quagmire ; yet the gates and doors of these buildings are adorned with marble portals, carved and inlaid with great beauty and variety; and it appears not a little surprising to see mud and marble, meanness and grandeur, so mingled together.... | |
 | 1816 - 816 pages
...are all built on the outfide either with fun burnt brick, or Flemifh wall : and yet it is nouncommon thing to fee the gates and doors adorned with marble...and Variety ; and within thefe portals to find large courts beautified with fragrant trees and marble fountains, and compafTed round with fplendid apartments.... | |
 | Thomas Stackhouse - 1817 - 636 pages
...better materials than either sun-burnt brick, or Flemish wall, and \ ut it is no uncommon thing to see the gates and doors adorned with marble portals, carved...and inlaid with great beauty and variety, and within these portals, to find generally a large square court, beautified with fragrant trees and marble fountains,... | |
 | Youth's instructor - 1822 - 488 pages
...houses are all built cither with sun-burnt brick or Flemish wall ; yet it is no uncommon thing to see the gates and doors adorned with marble portals, carved...and inlaid with great beauty and variety, and within these portals to find large square courts, beautified with fragrant trees mid marble fountains, and... | |
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Flemifo wall ; and yet it is no uncommon thing to fee the gates and doors adorned with marble portals, carved and inlaid with great beauty and variety... 
