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By Charles William King

Published 1867

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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page ii
by Sydney Smith, Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey, Macvey Napier, William Empson, George Cornewall Lewis, Henry Reeve, Arthur Ralph Douglas Elliot, Harold Cox - 1929
... et originaux, XVI« xviie et xviiie Siècles. Tomes L—XIII. Paris: 1852-1864. Page 2. Correspondance des Réformateurs dan les Pays de la Langue Française, ...
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Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia - Page 443
1865
"Publications of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia": v. 53, 1901, p.788-794.
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Diamant: Zauber und Geschichte eines Wunders der Natur - Page 52
by Alois M Haas, Ludwig Hödl, Horst Schneider - 2004 - 255 pages
... es sich bei diesem so geruhmten Stein wie auch bei den anderen antiken Diamanten nicht um geschliffene Steine, sondern nun um gut ...
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Seville - Page 300
For one of these geins some Genoese merchants at Seville had offered Cortez 40000 ducats. The queen of Charles V. had previously intimated her desire ...
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Delhi - Page 203
The process used for refining gold in the mint of Delhi in the middle of the sixteenth century, was as simple as the ancient Egyptian, ...
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Florence - Page 268
The Muncipality ot Florence (nothing can more strongly exemplify the national taste) long gloried in the ownership of a magnificent single row of ...
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Peshawar - Page 72
hidden in the wall of a fortress that had been Shah Zeman's prison, it shone on the breast of Shah Soujah when the English embassy visited Peshawar. ...
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Naxos - Page 51
Before the introduction of the true Diamond into Greece, sharp fragments of Corundum obtained from Naxos served the same purpose: the name Adamas was ...

Livorno - Page 51
Flavio Serletti, of Livorno, goon after the year 1700, is believed to have been the first to revive (at Stosch's suggestion) the use of this ancient ...

Athens - Page 191
And when Sulla, hard pressed for money during the siege of Athens, obliged the Amphictyons to surrender all the Delphic treasures to his agent Caphis, ...
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Rome - Page 310
in reality rough diamonds: that stone could hardly have been omitted from this assemblage of all that was most precious amongst the spoils of Rome.
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Madras - Page 84
as the story goes, concealed it in a gash made for its reception in the calf of his leg, until he had the opportunity of escaping to Madras. ...
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Madrid - Page 147
The style of art indicates the third century for its date.f Equally late are the disci of Madrid, and that of Geneva, both with historical subjects; ...
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Cairo - Page 351
Emeralds had fallen so low at the beginning of this century that Cairo fixes the first carat at no more than 24 fr. ...
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Algiers - Page 300
the disastrous expedition against Algiers in 1541, " which made the misfortune fall more heavily upon Cortez than on any one else besides the emperor. ...

Paris - Page 235
This gem has been pronounced antique by the best judges in Paris, and was bequeathed as a precious souvenir by the late possessor, L. ...
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Pesaro - Page 17
This sage, who nourished at Pesaro at the close of the fifteenth century as physician to Cesare Borgia, has in his ' Spe-culum Lapidum'* (written in ...

Thasos - Page 173
The gold-mines in Thasos opened by the Phoenicians, who first colonised that island, made " a whole hill turned upside down in the search," between ...

Lisbon - Page 57
Such was the productiveness of the mines on their first discovery, that in 1732, 1146 ounces of Diamonds were shipped at Eio for Lisbon. ...

London - Page 117
who lost no time in betaking himself and the spoil to London, where he broke up the necklace and converted the brilliants into money. ...
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Herat - Page 72
himself the kingdoms surrounding his native passes, and erected them into an empire which extended from Moultan to Herat, from Peshawar to Candahar. ...

Basel - Page 187
The sands of the Rhine below Basel are still washed every summer for gold-dust by the peasantry of the grand- duchy of Baden, as are also those of the ...

Bologna - Page 137
These, with his equally- famed enamels and pieces of plate executed for his patrons the Bentivogli, tyrants of Bologna, were lost or destroyed upon ...

Lahore - Page 73
power fell before the arms of England which it had challenged, the talisman of Indian sway passed from the treasury of Lahore to the jewel-chamber - ...

Vienna - Page 116
conceited, luxurious prince of the Church, had been ambassador at Vienna, and in that capacity had given great offence to both courts by a letter, ...

Windsor - Page 73
Windsor." The Hindoos, however, have constantly enjoyed the sweet consolation of revenge that Nemesis so often grants to the worsted side, ...

Mayence - Page 152
It was discovered a few years back near Mayence, having doubtless been lost in some one of the innumerable fights between the invaders and the Germans ...

Jerusalem - Page 333
being struck with the fear of sacrilege, sent them off with all possible dispatch to the Christian church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem. ...
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Syracuse - Page 120
Xenophon mentions that Nicias (the commander of the ill-starred expedition to Syracuse) kept a thousand slaves there, always maintaining the same ...

Amsterdam - Page 110
This business is almost confined to the city of Amsterdam: it is entirely carried on by Jews, and the number of them engaged in it there is about ten ...

Magdeburg - Page 290
Wenceslaus, at Prague, and a fourth some-what larger at Magdeburg, set in the gold tower containing the Host, traditionally believed to be the handle ...

Genoa - Page 290
1565) boasted of an opposition Emerald dish, according to them the only authentic one, but much smaller and far less famed than the relic at Genoa. ...

Birmingham - Page 218
Large quantities of brass are annually exported from Birmingham to Africa, cast into the shape of wide penannular rings called manillas, ...

Milan - Page 107
qui estoit tin anneau et y avoit un fusil * entaille en un camayieu ou estoient ses armes ; lequel fut vendu pour deux ducats au lieu de Milan. ...

Prague - Page 290
Wenceslaus, at Prague, and a fourth some-what larger at Magdeburg, set in the gold tower containing the Host, traditionally believed to be the handle ...

Edessa - Page 321
Astarte the great goddess of Edessa : f — " Precious stones colourless (diamonds), water- coloured (beryls), fiery (rubies), the sardonyx-stones, ...

Venice - Page 95
in the last years of the same century, which is due to Vincenzio Feruzzi, of Venice, a city then the chief seat of the business in Europe (Tav. ii. ...

Edinburgh - Page 264
Moritz linger, a gem-dealer of Edinburgh, stimulated by the fast-increasing scarcity of the Oriental species, travelled all over the pearl-producing ...

Cambridge - Page 253
Amongst the Rutupine antiquities preserved in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge, is a portion of a necklace of small rough Sapphires, ...

Don Carlos - Page 97
97 had engraved upon a Diamond a portrait of Don Carlos, intended for a betrothal present or gage d'amour to Anna, daughter of the Emperor Maximilian ...

Panama - Page 271
The slave was rewarded with the gift of his liberty, his master with the post of Alcalde ol Panama. The pearl was presented to Philip by Don Diego de ...
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Dom Pedro - Page 348
It came from the Muzo mine, Santa Fe di Bogota, and was purchased by the Duke from Dom Pedro. The largest Sapphire has got its name, " The Wooden-.

Don Pedro - Page 318
to have been given to Edward Prince of Wales, the Black Prince, by Don Pedro, king of Castile, after the battle of N'ajara, near Vittoria, AD 1367. ...

Delicias - Page 134
Nil ibi plebeium, nusquam Temesea notabis JEra, sed argento felix propellitur unda Argentoque cadit, labrisque nitentibus instat Delicias mirata suas, ...