 | Albert Barnes - Bible - 1854 - 554 pages
...were made there. " So delicate," says he, " were some of them, that they would pass through a man's ring, and a single person could carry a sufficient...number of them to surround a whole wood. Julius Lupus, who died while governor of Egypt, had some of those nets, each string of which consisted of 150 threads;... | |
 | sir John Gardner Wilkinson - 1854 - 496 pages
...their fineness ; and Pliny says " some of them were so delicate that they would pass through a man's ring, and a single person could carry a sufficient...number of them to surround a whole wood. Julius Lupus, who died while governor of Egypt, had some of these nets, eacli string of which consisted of 150 threads;... | |
 | Sir John Gardner Wilkinson - Egypt - 1854 - 466 pages
...their fineness ; and Pliny says " some of them were so delicate that they would pass through a man's ring, and a single person could carry a sufficient number of them to surround a whole wood. Julius Lepus, who died while governor of Egypt, had some of these nets, each string of which consisted of... | |
 | John Gardner Wilkinson - Egypt - 1854 - 456 pages
...their fineness ; and Pliny says " some of them were so delicate that they would pass through a man's ring, and a single person could carry a sufficient number of them to surround a whole wood. Julius Lepus, who died while governor of Egypt, had some of these nets, each string of which consisted of... | |
 | Herodotus - Greece - 1858 - 658 pages
...was extended to the nets which were so delicate that pass through a man's ring, and a single ]>erson could carry a sufficient number of them to surround a whole wood. (1'lin. xix. 1. On the Byssus, see note6 ch. 8(1.) The transparent fineness of the linen dresses of... | |
 | Herodotus - History, Ancient - 1859 - 552 pages
...texture was extended to the nets of Egypt, which were so delicate that they could pass through a man's ring, and a single person could carry a sufficient number of them to surround a whole wood. (Plin. xix. 1. On the Byssus, see note • ch. 86.) The transparent No. V. fineness of the linen dresses... | |
 | Albert Barnes - Bible - 1860 - 548 pages
...were made there. " !>o delicate," says he, " were some of them, that they would pass through a man's ring, and a single person could carry a sufficient...number of them to surround a whole wood. Julius Lupus, who died while governor of Egypt, had some of those nets, each string of which consisted of 150 threads;... | |
 | James Hamilton Fyfe - 1864 - 366 pages
...Egypt were so delicate that SHIPS OF THE NILE. 77 they could be passed through a finger ring, and " n single person could carry a sufficient number of them to surround a whole wood." Cotton and woollen garments were also manufactured by the Egyptians. Among the things which Solomon... | |
 | Herodotus - Greece - 1866 - 560 pages
...texture was extended to the nets of Egypt, which were so delicate that they could pass through a man's ring, and a single person could carry a sufficient number of them to surround a whole wood. (Plin. xix. 1. On the Bysaus, see note • ch. 80.) The transparent No. IV. No. V. fineness of the... | |
 | John Brown - 1866 - 602 pages
...texture was extended to the nets of Egypt, which were so delicate that they could pass through a man's n The transparent fineness of the linen dresses of men and women in the Egyptian paintings, the remark... | |
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some of them were so delicate that they would pass through a man's ring, and a single person could carry a sufficient number of them to surround a whole wood. Julius Lupus, who died while governor of Egypt, had some of these nets, each string of which... 
