The Magic of Jewels and CharmsJ.B. Lippincott, 1915 - 422 sider |
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... writer still holds that true sentiment , the antithesis of superstitious dread , is good for all mankind -sentiment meaning optimism as truly as superstition stands for pessimism - and that even the fancies generated by sentiment are ...
... writer still holds that true sentiment , the antithesis of superstitious dread , is good for all mankind -sentiment meaning optimism as truly as superstition stands for pessimism - and that even the fancies generated by sentiment are ...
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... writers of medieval times , can be paralleled by similar rain - making or rain - inducing stones in many other parts of the world and among many primitive peoples even in modern times . The rain - makers of the African tribe of Wahumas ...
... writers of medieval times , can be paralleled by similar rain - making or rain - inducing stones in many other parts of the world and among many primitive peoples even in modern times . The rain - makers of the African tribe of Wahumas ...
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... writers , denoted a hard , metallic substance . Possibly , when iron first became known to the Greeks , the adjective àðaμávivos , " indomitable , " was ap- plied to it , and later the noun adamas was formed from this adjective and was ...
... writers , denoted a hard , metallic substance . Possibly , when iron first became known to the Greeks , the adjective àðaμávivos , " indomitable , " was ap- plied to it , and later the noun adamas was formed from this adjective and was ...
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... writer's personal observation in Garland and Montgomery counties , Arkansas , demon- strated that quartz crystals were to be found in mounds together with chipped arrow - points of chalcedony , although the crystals did not appear to ...
... writer's personal observation in Garland and Montgomery counties , Arkansas , demon- strated that quartz crystals were to be found in mounds together with chipped arrow - points of chalcedony , although the crystals did not appear to ...
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... ) , vol . xv , No. 1 , January- March , 1913 . * See the present writer's " Gems and Precious Stones of North America , " New York , 1892 , p . 126 . other mineral , such as rutile , for instance , MAGIC STONES AND ELECTRIC GEMS 29 29.
... ) , vol . xv , No. 1 , January- March , 1913 . * See the present writer's " Gems and Precious Stones of North America , " New York , 1892 , p . 126 . other mineral , such as rutile , for instance , MAGIC STONES AND ELECTRIC GEMS 29 29.
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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...
Side 321 - Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm : for love is strong as death ; jealousy is cruel as the grave : the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame...
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.