 | Nathan Drake - English literature - 1800 - 482 pages
...Sultana, the third and greatest of the Abdalrahmans constructed the city, palace, and gardens of Zehrar Twenty-five years, and above three millions sterling...employed by the founder; his liberal taste invited the most skilful sculptors and architects of the age; J Abulfeda, p. 237. and the buildings were sustained... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1805 - 488 pages
...animals. and greatest of the Abdalrahmans constructed the city, pa- CHAP, lace, and gardens of Zehra. Twenty-five years, and above three millions sterling,...architects of the age ; and the buildings were sustained or adorued by twelve hundred columns of Spanish and African, of Greek and Italian marble. The hall... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1806 - 406 pages
...sultana, the third and greatest of the Abd".lrahmans constructed the city, palace, and gardens of Zehra. Twenty-five years, and above three millions Sterling,...employed by the founder : His liberal taste invited the artiits of Constantinople, the most skilful sculptors and architects of the age ; and the buildings... | |
 | James Kennedy (of Glasgow.) - Poetry - 1810 - 450 pages
...tower'd above. 212 greatest of the Abdalrahmans constructed the city, palace, and gardens of Zehra. Twentyfive years and above three millions sterling...most skilful sculptors and architects of the age; andfthe buildings were sustained, or adorned, by twelve hundred columns of Spanish and African, Greek... | |
 | James Forbes - 1815 - 458 pages
...manners and customs at the present day. — " Abdalrahman's buildings at Zehra were sustained or adorned by twelve hundred columns of Spanish and African,...Greek and Italian marble. The hall of audience was incrusted wilh gold and pearls, and a great bason in the centre was surrounded with the curfeus and... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1816 - 488 pages
...Ahdalrahmans constructed the city, CTIAP. palace, and gardens of Zelira. Twenty-five years, and UL above three millions sterling, were employed by the...architects of the age ; and the buildings were sustained or adorned by twelve hundred columns of Spanish and African, of Greek and Italian, marble. The hall... | |
 | David Ramsay - World history - 1819 - 386 pages
...Abdalrahmans constructed the city palace and gardens of Zehra. Twenty-five years, and about three million? sterling, were employed by the founder; his liberal...architects of the age, and the buildings were sustained or adorned by 1200 columns of marble. The hall of audience was encrusted with gold and pearls, and... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1820 - 404 pages
...the most skilful sculptors and architects of the age ; and the buildings were sustained or adorned by twelve hundred columns of Spanish and African, of Greek and Italian marble. The 'When Bell of Antermony (Travels, vol. i, p. 99) accompanied the Russian ambassador to the ai.dienc'e... | |
 | Picture gallery - 1824 - 234 pages
...the Abdalrahmans constructed the city, palace, and gardens of Jehrar. " Twenty-five years, and about three millions sterling, were employed by the founder. His liberal taste invited the most skilful sculptors and architects of the age; and the buildings were sustained or adorned by twelve... | |
 | James Christie - Eleusinian mysteries - 1825 - 212 pages
...architecture ; they borrowed from Byzantium. Gibbon observes* that, in Spain, the third of the Abdolrahmans invited the artists of Constantinople, the most skilful sculptors and architects of the age, to construct his city, palace, and gardens, at Zehra. This was indeed so late as between AD 912 and... | |
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Twenty-five years, and above three millions sterling, were employed by the founder: his liberal taste invited the artists of Constantinople, the most skilful sculptors and architects of the age; and the buildings were sustained or adorned by twelve hundred... 
