Precious Stones. For Curative Wear; and Other Remedial Uses: by M.D. W. T. Fernie

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So it was the Souls of the Stones extended themselves originally from the place of the Stone's natural residence, and 48 PRECIOUS STONES. " In the Prologue of Bartholomew Anglicus, On the Properties of Things, a reminder of the same doctrine is thus conveyed : " Reciteth this also the blessed Apostle Paul, in his Epistles, saying, that by things visible, which be made, and are visible, man may see, and know, by his inward intellectual sight, the divine, celestial, godly things which be invisible to this our natural sight.

Robert Boyle, " or from other external remedies, into the Blood, and Humours, and there produce great changes, will scarcely seem improbable to him who considers how perspirable, according to Hippocrates, a living body is ; and the Vegetable, and Animal bodies may well be supposed to send forth expirations, since even divers Minerals are found to do the. " Maecenas, the famous patron of Quintus Flaccus Horatius, was a passionate lover of Gems, and Precious. C. 28). Not merely," (C. W. King, 1885), PRECIOUS STONES.

Isaacs " (otherwise Abdul Hafizben-Isak) in that remarkable Eastern story by Marion Crawford, 1899 : " Though Mr. " " I was enthralled, and fascinated by his eyes. I once saw in France a jewel composed of six precious stones, each a gem of great value, so set that they appeared to form but one solid mass, yielding a strange radiance that changed its hue at every movement, and which multiplied the sunlight a thousandfold. "Were I to seek a comparison for my friend's eyes, I might find one in this masterpiece of the jeweller's art.

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