 | Johann Joachim Eschenaburg - 1795 - عدد الصفحات: 680
...preference, Neither none, nor brick, nor tiles were employed in thefe flight habitations. They were indeed no more than low huts of a circular figure, built of rough timber, thatched with ftraw and pierced at the top to leave a free paiTage for the fmoke. In the mon inclement winter, the... | |
 | Johann Joachim Eschenburg - 1795 - عدد الصفحات: 678
...Neither ftone, nor brick, nor tiles were employed in thefe flight habitations. "They were indeed no inore than low huts of a circular figure , built of rough timber, thatched with ftraw and pierced at the top to leave a free paffage for the fraoke* In the moft inclement Winter,... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1803 - عدد الصفحات: 404
...grove. Keither stone nor brick nor tiles were employed in thesithese slight habitations ; they were built of rough timber, thatched with straw, and pierced at the top to give a free pannage to the smoke. The principal article of their wealth consisted of their numerous... | |
 | H. Nolte - 1823 - عدد الصفحات: 646
...preference. Neither atone, nor brick, nor tiles were employed in these «light habitations. They were indeed no more than low huts of a circular figure, built of rough timber, thatched with itraw and pierced at the top to leave a free passage for the smoke. In the most inclement winter, the... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - عدد الصفحات: 814
...preference. Neither stone, nor brick, nor tiles, were employed in these slight habitations. They were, indeed, no more than low huts of a circular figure,...at the top to leave a free passage for the smoke. That they considered cities as places of confinement, rather than of security, appears from the following... | |
 | Horace Smith - 1832 - عدد الصفحات: 240
...of their edifices neither stone, brick, nor tiles were employed ; they were low circular structures, built of rough timber, thatched with straw, and pierced at the top to allow a free passage for the smoke. Others, however, were of much larger dimensions and more solid... | |
 | 1837 - عدد الصفحات: 538
...gloried in passing whole daya and nights at table. Their habitations were nothing more than low huU of a circular figure, built of rough timber, thatched with straw, and pierced at the top, to allow the light to enter and the smoke to go out ; and " each barbarian," says Gibbon, " fixed his... | |
 | Elizabeth Stone, Mary Margaret Stanley Egerton Countess of Wilton - 1841 - عدد الصفحات: 424
...gloomy landscape, are intimately connected with our theme. The use of the needle for the daily * " In the most inclement winter the hardy German was...a scanty garment made of the skin of some animal." — GiBBOV. necessities of life could never, as we have remarked, be superseded ; but the practice... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - عدد الصفحات: 556
...preference. Neither stone, nor brick, nor tiles, were employed in these slight habitations.23 They were indeed no more than low huts of a circular figure,...winter the hardy German was satisfied with a scanty gannent made of the skin of some animal. The nations who dwelt towards the North clothed themselves... | |
 | John Beswicke Greenwood - 1859 - عدد الصفحات: 282
...squatters. Neither stone, nor bricks, nor tiles, were employed in these slight habitations. They were indeed no more than low huts, of a circular figure,...at the top to leave a free passage for the smoke. (See Gibbon's Roman Empire, chap, ix., vol. i., p. 354, 8vo edition.) The habitations of the mass of... | |
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... each barbarian fixed his independent dwelling on the spot to which a plain, a wood, or a stream of fresh water, had induced him to give the preference. 
