 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1805 - 512 pages
...and the spoils of a victorious camp. Whole forests were cut down to supply fuel for the kitchens ; the plain was spread with pyramids of meat, and vases of every liquor, to which thousands of guests were courteously invited : the orders of the state, and the nations... | |
 | English literature - 1822 - 1148 pages
...marriage of six of his grandsons; where, according to Gibbon, following the statement of Sherefedden, ' the plain was spread with pyramids of meat and vases...pearls and rubies were showered on the heads of the bridegrooms and their brides, and contemptuously abandoned to their attendants;' where ' a general... | |
 | English literature - 1822 - 582 pages
...marriage of six of his grandsons; where, according to Gibbon, following the statement of Sherefedden, ' the plain was spread with pyramids of meat and vases...pearls and rubies were showered on the heads of the bridegrooms and their brides, and contemptuously abandoned to their attendants;' where ' a general... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 542 pages
...and the spoils of a victorious camp. Whole forests were cut down to supply fuel for the kitchens ; the plain was spread with pyramids of meat, and vases of every liquor, to which thousands of guests were courteously invited : the orders of the state, and the nations... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1835 - 744 pages
...count of this fête, tells us that "whole forests were cut down to supply fuel for the kitchens ; and the plain was spread with pyramids of meat, and vases of every liquor, to which thousands of guests were courteously invited." He goes on to say that, " After the... | |
 | Samuel Morewood - Alcoholic beverages - 1838 - 768 pages
...every pleasure was allowed, the people were free, and the sovereign presided, a delighted •spectator. Pearls and rubies were showered on the heads of the brides and bridegrooms, and left to be collected by their attendants.* At another feast given by a Khan of Tartary, which lasted... | |
 | P A. Beddome - History - 1844 - 280 pages
...the splendour and profusion of the court of Samarcand. Whole forests were cut down to supply fuel ; the plain was spread with pyramids of meat, and vases of every liquor, to which thousands of guests were courteously invited : the orders of the state, and the nations... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...and the spoils of a victorious camp. Whole forests were cut down to supply fuel for the kitchens ; oon on the east oriel shone, Through slender shafts of shapel liquor, to which thousands of guests were courteously invited ; the orders of the state, and the nations... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1851 - 694 pages
...and tho spoils of a victorious carnp. Whole forests were cut down to supply fuel for the kitchens ; the plain was spread with pyramids of meat, and vases of every liquor, to which thousands of guests were courteously invited : the orders of the state, and the nations... | |
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Canighul, decorated with innumerable tents and pavilions, which displayed the luxury of a great city and the spoils of a victorious camp. Whole forests were cut down to supply fuel for the kitchens ; the plain was spread with pyramids of meat, and vases... 
