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Superstitions
17 pages
Romance and Poetry
25 pages
A Chaplet of Pearls
6 pages
Philosophy
9 pages
Ecclesiastical
15 pages
Robberies
14 pages
Vicissitudes
12 pages
The Tudors and the Stuarts
18 pages
Decorations
33 pages
Highlights
Ecclesiastical
THE Holy Scriptures furnish us with at account of the jewels which distinguished the ephod of Aaron. This is described as having…
Decorations
THE wearing of jewels, and their adaptation to various articles of costume, dates from the most ancient times. I can but briefly…
The Tudors and the Stuarts
HENRY VII. was intensely avaricious, and added to his accumulated hoards of gold and jewels by the most grinding tyranny. He…
A Chaplet of Pearls
There is a magic charm in the Pearl that seems to have fascinated the world in various ages and countries. The modest splendour…
Philosophy
THAT, may we ask," observes a writer in the "Edinburgh Review," "have been the sources of that fascination which precious stones…
Superstitions (FROM the East that fertile)
FROM the East, that fertile pasturage for vivid imaginations, originated the fictions about precious stones, which, transmitted…