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Popular Mineralogy: Comprising a Familiar Account of Minerals and Their Uses ... Henry Sowerby No preview available - 2018 |
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abundant Actinolite Agate Alger alkali Alumine America amongst Analcime Antimony Apatite appearance Arsenic Asbestus beautiful blowpipe blue Bohemia botryoidal brilliant brown cabinet Carbonic acid Chalcedony clay combination composed composition consists contains Copper Cornwall cube dark derived earth earthy minerals Faroe Islands Felspar fibrous figured Plate found in Cornwall Garnet gems glass Glucine Gold grains granular green colour Hartz heat inches ingredients Ireland Iron pyrites known Kyanite laminæ Lime localities lustre Magnesia Manganese masses massive metal Mica mineral substances mineralogist mines mountains Native Norway observed obtained occasionally occurs crystallized octohedron opake Opal Oxide of Iron pale planes polished possess Potash primary form principal prism proportion Quartz rare resembling rhombic rhombic dodecahedron rhomboid Ruby Sapphire Saxony Scotland Siberia Silex Silver six-sided prism sometimes Sowerby spar specimens stalactitic stone Strontian structure Sulphuret Tellurium termed tint Tourmaline translucent transparent usually various shades veins whence yellow
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Page 297 - Gold ? yellow, glittering, precious gold ? No, gods, I am no idle votarist. Roots, you clear heavens ! Thus much of this will make black, white ; foul, fair ; Wrong, right; base, noble; old, young; coward, valiant. Ha, you gods! why this ? what this, you gods? why, this Will lug your priests and servants from your sides ; Pluck stout men's pillows from below their heads...
Page 22 - Thine, rais'd by thee, recalls the work to light. So wealthy mines, that ages long before Fed the large realms around with golden ore, When chok'd by sinking banks, no more appear, And shepherds only say,
Page 244 - Steel. Hail, adamantine steel! magnetic lord, King of the prow, the ploughshare, and the sword!
Page 336 - Maker said, That not in humble nor in brief delight, Not in the fading echoes of renown, Power's purple robes, nor Pleasure's flowery lap, The soul should find enjoyment ; but from these, Turning disdainful to an equal good, Through all the ascent of things enlarge her view, Till every bound at length should disappear, And infinite perfection close the scene.
Page 145 - And thou shalt set in it settings of stones, even four rows of stones : the first row shall be a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle : this shall be the first row. And the second row shall be an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond. And the third row a ligure, an agate, and an amethyst. And the fourth row a beryl, and an onyx, and a jasper ; they shall be set in gold in their inclosings.
Page 321 - INDIA'S richest ore A safe accession to that barren Shore — When in the dark Peruvian Mine confined, Lost to the cheerful commerce of mankind, The groaning captive wastes his life away, For ever exiled from the realms of day*, Not...
Page 47 - Till then, alone let zealous praise ascend, And hymns of holy wonder, to that Power, Whose wisdom shines as lovely on our minds, As on our smiling eyes his servant-sun.
Page 47 - And lives the man, whose universal eye Has swept at once th* unbounded scheme of things; Mark'd their dependence so, and firm accord, As with unfaltering accent to conclude That this availeth nought?
Page 62 - In still retreats, and flowery solitudes, To Nature's voice attends, from month to month-, And day to day, through the revolving year...
Page 16 - Rocks rich in gems, and mountains big with mines, That on the high equator ridgy rise...