Diary and Correspondence of John Evelyn, F. R. S.: To which is Subjoined the Private Correspondence Between King Charles I. and Sir Edward Nicholas, and Between Sir Edward Hyde, Afterwards Earl of Clarendon, and Sir Richard Browne, Volumen 1Henry Colburn, publisher, 1850 |
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... porphyry , another of calcedon , a vase of onyx , the largest I had ever seen of that stone ; two of crystal ; a morsel of one of the waterpots in which our Saviour did his first miracle ; the effigies of the queen of Saba , of Julius ...
... porphyry , another of calcedon , a vase of onyx , the largest I had ever seen of that stone ; two of crystal ; a morsel of one of the waterpots in which our Saviour did his first miracle ; the effigies of the queen of Saba , of Julius ...
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... porphyry . I have frequently wondered that we never practised this [ art ] in England for cabinets and rooms of state , * for it appears to me beyond any invention of that kind ; but by their careful covering them with canvass and fine ...
... porphyry . I have frequently wondered that we never practised this [ art ] in England for cabinets and rooms of state , * for it appears to me beyond any invention of that kind ; but by their careful covering them with canvass and fine ...
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... porphyry , and the more remarkable for being the first which had been carved out of that hard material , and brought to perfection , after the art had been utterly lost ; they say this was done by hardening the tools in the juice of ...
... porphyry , and the more remarkable for being the first which had been carved out of that hard material , and brought to perfection , after the art had been utterly lost ; they say this was done by hardening the tools in the juice of ...
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... porphyry above the grotto . We were here showed a prodigious great loadstone . The garden has every variety , hills , dales , rocks , groves , aviaries , vivaries , fountains , especially one of five jettos , the middle basin being one ...
... porphyry above the grotto . We were here showed a prodigious great loadstone . The garden has every variety , hills , dales , rocks , groves , aviaries , vivaries , fountains , especially one of five jettos , the middle basin being one ...
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... porphyry , & c .; but amongst the statues none so famous as the Scipio , the Boar , the Idol of Apollo , brought from the Delphic Temple , and two tri- umphant columns . Over these hang the pictures of the most famous persons and ...
... porphyry , & c .; but amongst the statues none so famous as the Scipio , the Boar , the Idol of Apollo , brought from the Delphic Temple , and two tri- umphant columns . Over these hang the pictures of the most famous persons and ...
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