Precious Stones: Their History and Mystery

Nine chapters on what people have believed about jewels — the charms and the poisons, the chaplet of pearls, the ecclesiastical treasuries, and the great robberies they invited.

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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

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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…

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1880Year
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