 Here are more than twenty different species of grapes; which, as they do not all ripen at the same time, continue to afford a delicious refreshment for several months. The Arabs likewise preserve grapes, by hanging them up in their cellars, and eat them...  Wines: Scriptural and Ecclesiastical - Side 77af Norman Shanks Kerr - 1882 - 173 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Josiah Conder - 1831 - 362 sider
...so bad as to require to be mixed with straw, to make it burn. ' Fruits are very plentiful at Sanaa. Here are more than twenty different species of grapes,...in their cellars, and eat them almost through the whole year. The Jews make a little wine, and might make more, if the Arabs were not such enemies to... | |
 | Ralph Barnes Grindrod - 1839 - 564 sider
...vines. Dryden translates the passage thus :— and kept for a part " Fruits are plentiful at Sana. Here are more than twenty different species of grapes,...in their cellars, and eat them almost through the whole year." —Niebuhr's Travels through Arabia, Sfc., Trans, by Robt. Heron, vol. i. p. 406,1792.... | |
 | Ralph Barnes Grindrod - 1840 - 1078 sider
...the juice of the grape could be procured at any period of the year. " Fruits are plentiful at Sana. Here are more than twenty different species of grapes;...in their cellars, and eat them almost through the whole year." — Niebuhr's Travels through Arabia, $c., Trans, by Robert Heron, vol. ip 406, 1792.... | |
 | Ralph Barnes Grindrod - 1855 - 540 sider
...of the year. " Fruits are plentiful at Sana. Here are more than twenty different species of grapeSj which, as they do not all ripen at the same time,...in their cellars, and eat them almost through the whole year." — Niebuhr'i Travels through Arabia. 4-c., Tra.nl. In/ Robert Heron, vol. ip 406, 1792.... | |
 | 1872 - 354 sider
...the banks of a small river. Fruits are very plenteous ; there are more than twenty different kinds of grapes, which, as they do not all ripen at the...in their cellars, and eat them almost through the whole year. Two leagues northward from Sana is a plain named Eodda, which is overspread with gardens,... | |
 | 1874 - 368 sider
...the banks of a small river. Fruits are very plenteous ; there are more than twenty different kinds of grapes, which, as they do not all ripen at the...in their cellars, and eat them almost through the whole y©ar. Two leagues northward from Sana is a plain named Kodda, which is overspread with gardens,... | |
 | 1882 - 826 sider
...Josephus' testimony (Bel. Jud., vii, 8, 4) has already been given, f Niebuhr says that " the Arabs preserve grapes by hanging them up in their cellars, and eat them almost through the whole year." \ Swinburne quotes from an Arabic manuscript of the fourteenth century, preserved in the... | |
 | Leon C. Field - 1883 - 180 sider
...Josephus' testimony (Bel. Jud., vii, 8, 4) has already been given, t Niebuhr says that " the Arabs preserve grapes by hanging them up in their cellars, and eat them almost through the whole year." \ Swinburne quotes from an Arabic manuscript of the fourteenth century, preserved in the... | |
 | 1884
..." the possibility of keeping grapes fresh from one season to another." Take an example, " The Arabs preserve grapes by hanging them up in their cellars, and eat them almost through the whole year." By abundant similar testimonies he makes good his conclusion, " Thus unfermented wine... | |
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