Tourmalins Time Cheques

Author : Augustus Choate Hamlin
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780266526940
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (269 download)

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Download or read book The Tourmaline written by Augustus Choate Hamlin and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-20 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Tourmaline: Its Relation as a Gem; Its Complex Nature; Its Wonderful Physical Properties, Etc., Etc.; With Special Reference to the Beautiful and Matchless Crystals Found in the State of Maine Lavishing millions for gem decorations, as well as in the child when gathering flowers on the meadow in spring to adorn its person. It is simply obedience to one of the laws that per feet our nature, - the love of the beautiful. We also find that the precious stones have, from time immemorial, exercised a powerful influence over all the human families, though, widely scattered over the globe, not only in civilized and refined life, but among the wild Arabs of the desert, and the ruder savages of remote islands and secluded countries. How many beautiful examples of their effects come to us through the mists of antiquity, tinged, perhaps, with the rosy tints of the fabulous, but illustrating the force and sway of the bean tiful in nature upon the disposition of maul How brilliant and potent must have been the gleams of that wonderful opal which induced the Roman senator Nonias to depart into exile rather than yield up his matchless gem to the greedy Marc Antony who coveted it! For exile then to a Roman was worse than death. Of what transcendent beauty must have been. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.