 | Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 512 էջ
...their brides retired to the nuptial chambers ; nine times, according to the Asiatic fashion, they were dressed and undressed; and at each change of apparel,...and contemptuously abandoned to their attendants. A general indulgence was proclaimed : every law was relaxed, every pleasure was allowed ; the people... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 542 էջ
...their brides retired to the nuptial chambers ; nine times, according to the Asiatic fashion, they were dressed and undressed ; and, at each change of apparel,...and contemptuously abandoned to their attendants. A general indulgence was proclaimed : every law was relaxed, every pleasure was allowed ; the people... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 594 էջ
...nine times, according to the •\siatic fashion, they were dressed and undressed ; and at each i hange of apparel, pearls and rubies were showered on their...and contemptuously abandoned to their attendants. A général indulgence was proclaimed ; every law was relaxed, every pleasure was allowed ; the people... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1827 - 634 էջ
...to the Asiatic fashion, they were dressed and undressed ; and at each change of apparel, pearls aud rubies were showered on their heads, and contemptuously abandoned to their attendants. A general indulgence was proclaimed ; every law was relaxed, every pleasure was allojwed) tb« people... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1835 - 744 էջ
...brides retired to their nuptial chambers ; nine times, according to the Asiatic fashion, they were dressed and undressed ; and at each change of apparel,...heads, and contemptuously abandoned to their attendants : a general indulgence was proclaimed ; every law was relaxed, the people were free, the sovereign... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1841 - 504 էջ
...their brides retired to the nuptial chambers ; nine times, according to the Asiatic fashion, they were dressed and undressed ; and at each change of apparel, pearls and rubies were ehowered on their heads, and contemptuously abandoned to their attendants. A general indulgence was... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 էջ
...their brides retired to the nuptial chambers ; nine times, according to the Asiatic fashion, they were te ; And all and each that passed that way Did join...Flew optn in short space ; The tollmen thinking as A general indulgence wae proclaimed ; every law was relaxed, every pleasure was allowed ; the people... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 էջ
...their brides retired to the nuptial chambers ; nine times, according to the Asiatic fashion, they were eye ! Whate'er this prodigy, it threatens more Than midnight t A general indulgence was proclaimed ; every law was relaxed, every pleasure was allowed ; the people... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1851 - 694 էջ
...their brides retired to the nuptial chambers : nine times, according to the Asiatic fashion, they were dressed and undressed ; and at each change of apparel,...and contemptuously abandoned to their attendants. A general indulgence was proclaimed : every law was relaxed, every pleasure was allowed ; the people... | |
 | Gabriel Gottfried Bredow - 1850 - 224 էջ
...happy pairs dressed G 122 UNIVERSAL HISTORY. AD and undressed; while at every change of apparel 40 pearls and rubies were showered on their heads, and contemptuously abandoned to their attendants. A general indulgence was proclaimed, every law relaxed and pleasure allowed, the people were free,... | |
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After the marriage contracts had been ratified by the cadhis, the bride-grooms and their brides retired to the nuptial chambers: nine times, according to the Asiatic fashion, they were dressed and undressed; and at each change of apparel, pearls and rubies... 
