Paris universal exhibition of 1878. Handbook to the British Indian section. Presentation ed |
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... Pliny , and Arrian , during the first century before and the first century after Christ , that we owe most of our knowledge of ancient India . Arrian , the author of the Periplus of the Erythrean Sea , almost a contemporary of Arrian ...
... Pliny , and Arrian , during the first century before and the first century after Christ , that we owe most of our knowledge of ancient India . Arrian , the author of the Periplus of the Erythrean Sea , almost a contemporary of Arrian ...
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... Pliny's description of Bactrian [ Indian ] Bdellium : - " It is shining and dry , and covered with numerous white spots resembling the finger nails . " Such Bdellium would appear to be the Boen vug of Damocritus , an obscure medical ...
... Pliny's description of Bactrian [ Indian ] Bdellium : - " It is shining and dry , and covered with numerous white spots resembling the finger nails . " Such Bdellium would appear to be the Boen vug of Damocritus , an obscure medical ...
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... Pliny's " Cyprus in Egypt , " and the women of Egypt and other eastern countries tinge their hands and feet with its ruddy dye , whence probably proceeds the designation of Aurora as " rosy - fingered , " [ podobákтuhos s ] . In Egypt ...
... Pliny's " Cyprus in Egypt , " and the women of Egypt and other eastern countries tinge their hands and feet with its ruddy dye , whence probably proceeds the designation of Aurora as " rosy - fingered , " [ podobákтuhos s ] . In Egypt ...
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... Pliny . The Apricot , the unλéa åpμeviakǹ of Dioscorides , and malus Armeniaca of Pliny , is the πpaikkоkia , and præcocia , i.e. , early Peach ; whence the Arabic al - burquq , Spanish albaricocque , Italian albicocco , French abricot ...
... Pliny . The Apricot , the unλéa åpμeviakǹ of Dioscorides , and malus Armeniaca of Pliny , is the πpaikkоkia , and præcocia , i.e. , early Peach ; whence the Arabic al - burquq , Spanish albaricocque , Italian albicocco , French abricot ...
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... Pliny . Dragon's Blood , or Gum Dragon , is obtained from the Calamus Draco , one of the Rattan Palms of the Eastern Archipelago , and Dracena Draco , a liliaceous tree of the Canary Islands and Madeira ; and Pterocarpus Draco , a ...
... Pliny . Dragon's Blood , or Gum Dragon , is obtained from the Calamus Draco , one of the Rattan Palms of the Eastern Archipelago , and Dracena Draco , a liliaceous tree of the Canary Islands and Madeira ; and Pterocarpus Draco , a ...
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Page 36 - All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad.
Page 45 - And after three months we departed in a ship of Alexandria, which had wintered in the isle, whose sign was Castor and Pollux.
Page 40 - Tyrus, and will cause many nations to come up against thee, as the sea causeth his waves to come up. And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus, and break down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock. It shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord God: and it shall become a spoil to the nations.
Page 39 - Tarsus, bound for the isles Of Javan or Gadire, With all her bravery on, and tackle trim, Sails fill'd, and streamers waving, Courted by all the winds that hold them play, An amber scent of odorous perfume Her harbinger...
Page 125 - She is not afraid of the snow for her household: for all her household are clothed with scarlet.
Page 40 - The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble...
Page 109 - Her wise ladies answered her, yea, she returned answer to herself, have they not sped ? have they not divided the prey ; to every man a damsel or two ; to Sisera a prey of divers colours, a prey of divers colours of needlework, of divers colours of needlework on both sides, meet for the necks of them that take the spoil...
Page 125 - Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain ; but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.
Page 90 - And they did beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it into wires, to work it in the blue, and in the purple, and in the scarlet, and in the fine linen, with cunning "work.
Page 36 - And they sat down to eat bread ; and they lifted up their eyes, and looked, and behold, a company of Ishmaelites came from Gilead with their camels, bearing spicery, and balm, and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.