 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1805 - 506 pages
...monarch addicted to foreign superstitions, and who actually received an embassy from the isle of Ceylon. Amidst their pious occupations, they viewed with a...silk, and the myriads of silkworms, whose education (eii.her.on trees or in houses) had once been considered as the labour of queens.7' They soon discovered... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1806 - 454 pages
...addicted to foreign superstitions, and who actually received iin 3,1?™.bassy from the isle of Ceylon. Amidst their pious occupations, they viewed with a...(either on trees or in houses) had once been considered as the labour of queens f . They soon discovered that it was impracticable to transport the short-lived... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1811 - 456 pages
...monarch addicted to foreign superstitions, and who actually received an embassy from the isle of Ceylon. Amidst their pious occupations, they viewed with a...silk-worms, whose education (either on trees or in. houses) IradoHce been considered as the labour of queens.f They soon discovered that it was impracticable to... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1816 - 508 pages
...monarch addicted to foreign superstitions, and who actually received an embassy from the isle of Ceylon. Amidst their pious occupations, they viewed with a curious eye the common dress of tlie Chinese, the manufactures of silk, and the myriads of silk-worms, whose education (either on trees... | |
 | Constable and co, ltd - 1832 - 960 pages
...various parts of India, and that two monks, employed as missionaries from some of these, found access to the country of the Seres, or China. There, amidst...Chinese, the manufactures of silk, and the myriads of Silk Worms, whose education, either on trees or in houses, had once been considered the labour of queens.... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1826 - 384 pages
...extremities of Asia. Two Persian monks had long resided in China, who amidst their pious occupations, viewed with a curious eye the common dress of the...(either on trees or in houses) had once been considered as the labour of Queens. They soon discovered that it was impracticable to transport the short-lived... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 486 pages
...monarch addicted to foreign superstitions, and who actually received an embassy from the isle of Ceylon. Amidst their pious occupations, they viewed with a...the myriads of silk-worms, whose education (either * See the Christian missions in India, in Cosmas (1. iii. p. 178, 179. 1. xi. p. 337), and consult... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1826 - 462 pages
...monarch addicted to foreign superstitions, and who actually received an embassy from the isle of Ceylon. Amidst their pious occupations, they viewed with a...Chinese, the manufactures of silk, and the myriads of silk worms, whose education (either on trees or in houses) had once been considered as the labour of... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1826 - 376 pages
...extremities of Asia. Two Persian monks had long resided in China, who, amidst their pious occupations, viewed with a curious eye the common dress of the...manufactures of silk, and the myriads of silkworms, whose training (either on trees or in houses) had once been considered as the labour of queens. They soon... | |
 | Great Britain - 1831 - 496 pages
...of silk, when they obtained relief in a very extraordinary and unexpected manner. Two Persimn monks having been employed as missionaries in some of the...on trees or in houses, had once been considered the labour of queens. They soon discovered that it was impracticable to transplant the short-lived insect,... | |
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Amidst their pious occupations, they viewed with a curious eye the common dress of the Chinese, the manufactures of silk, and the myriads of silk-worms, whose education (either on trees or in houses) had once been considered as the labour of queens. 
