The Magic of Jewels and CharmsJ.B. Lippincott, 1915 - 422 sider |
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... EMERALD THAT BELONGED TO THE DEPOSED SULTAN OF TURKEY . 2. ALMANDITE GARNET . 3. SARDONYX IDOL - EYE OF A BABYLONIAN BULL . 4. AQUAMARINE SEAL . 159 ILLUSTRATING PRECIOUS STONES AND MINERALS USED FOR SEALS IN ANCIENT ASSYRIA AND ...
... EMERALD THAT BELONGED TO THE DEPOSED SULTAN OF TURKEY . 2. ALMANDITE GARNET . 3. SARDONYX IDOL - EYE OF A BABYLONIAN BULL . 4. AQUAMARINE SEAL . 159 ILLUSTRATING PRECIOUS STONES AND MINERALS USED FOR SEALS IN ANCIENT ASSYRIA AND ...
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... emerald with white veinings " was sometimes called galactite , and See Theophrasti , " De lapidibus ( Peri lithôn ) , ed . by John Hill , London , 1746 , pp . 15-17 ; cap . 10 . another variety had alternate red and white stripes or ...
... emerald with white veinings " was sometimes called galactite , and See Theophrasti , " De lapidibus ( Peri lithôn ) , ed . by John Hill , London , 1746 , pp . 15-17 ; cap . 10 . another variety had alternate red and white stripes or ...
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... emerald " was a variety of jade , or a banded jasper . This so - called galactite , which enjoyed such an extra- ordinary reputation in ancient and medieval times , is not , properly speaking , a stone , but a nitrate of lime . The ...
... emerald " was a variety of jade , or a banded jasper . This so - called galactite , which enjoyed such an extra- ordinary reputation in ancient and medieval times , is not , properly speaking , a stone , but a nitrate of lime . The ...
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... emeralds , etc.29 Possibly some alchemists were glassmakers , and fused the quartz with various mineral salts into imitations of the gems , having the colors , but not the hardness or other properties . One of the strangest fancies as ...
... emeralds , etc.29 Possibly some alchemists were glassmakers , and fused the quartz with various mineral salts into imitations of the gems , having the colors , but not the hardness or other properties . One of the strangest fancies as ...
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... emerald and even occasionally small pearls . This serves to indicate that the pretty exterior of such objects exerted an influence upon these birds in some degree analogous to the impressions aroused in mankind on viewing them.35 25 ...
... emerald and even occasionally small pearls . This serves to indicate that the pretty exterior of such objects exerted an influence upon these birds in some degree analogous to the impressions aroused in mankind on viewing them.35 25 ...
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Side 258 - This story shall the good man teach his son ; And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by, From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered...
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Side 377 - Nay, had she been true, If heaven would make me such another world Of one entire and perfect chrysolite, I'd not have sold her for it.
Side 84 - ... smoothed ; it looks as if the whole had been broken into many pieces by a violent blow, and then united again. It is very difficult to determine accurately the quality of this stone, which has been worn to its present surface by the millions of touches and kisses it has received.
Side 282 - Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.
Side 240 - And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people : and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
Side 79 - Ye men of Ephesus, what man is there that knoweth not how that the city of the Ephesians is a worshipper of the great goddess Diana, and of the image which fell down from Jupiter?
Side 267 - If Candlemas Day be fair and bright Winter will have another flight But if Candlemas Day be clouds and rain Winter is gone and will not come again.
Side 268 - ST. Swithin's day if thou dost rain, For forty days it will remain : St. Swithin's day if thou be fair, For forty days 'twill rain na mair.
Side 326 - Nothing therefore is more excellent than the mysteries which ye seek after, saving only the mystery of the Seven Vowels and their forty and nine Powers, and the numbers thereof. And no name is more excellent than all these (Vowels), 1M a Name wherein be contained all Names and all Lights and all Powers.