Who, when he saw the first sand or ashes, by a casual intenseness of heat, melted into a metalline form, rugged with excrescences, and clouded with impurities, would have imagined, that in this shapeless lump lay concealed so many conveniences of life,... The Decorator's assistant - Página 98Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| South Kensington Museum - 1878 - 444 páginas
...of life as would in time conftitute a great part of " the happinefs of the world ? Yet by fome fuch fortuitous liquefaction was mankind taught " to procure a body at once in a high degree folid and tranfparent, which might admit the light " of the fun and exclude the violence of the wind,... | |
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...excrescences and crowded with impurities, would have imagined that in this shapeless lump lay concealed so many conveniences of life as would in time constitute a great part of the happiness of the world ? Thus was the first artificer in glass occupied, though without his own knowledge or expectation.... | |
| William Ramsey (P. M.) - 1898 - 206 páginas
...excrescences and crowded with impurities, would have imagined that in this shapeless lump lay concealed so many conveniences of life as would in time constitute a great part of the happiness of the world ? Thus was the first artificer in glass occupied, though without his own knowledge or expectation.... | |
| Benjamin Franklin Biser - 1899 - 196 páginas
...excrescences and clouded with impurities, would have imagined that in this shapeless mass lay concealed so many conveniences of life as would in time constitute...once in a high degree solid and transparent. which would admit the light of the sun, and exclude the violence of the wind ; which might extend the sight... | |
| Edward White - 1907 - 115 páginas
...excrescences and clouded with impurities, would have imagined that in this shapeless lump lay concealed so many conveniences of life as would in time constitute a great part of the happiness of the world." ORIGIN OF GLASS The invention of glass is credited to Phoenician merchants, who rested their cooking... | |
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...excrescences, and clouded with impurities, would have imagined, that in this shapeless lump lay concealed so many conveniences of life, as would in time constitute a great part of the happiness of the world?" Suzuki, Daisetz. The Essentials of Zen Buddhism edited with an introduction by Bernard Phillips, Greenwood... | |
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...exercise and clouded with impurities, would have imagined that in this shapeless lump lay concealed so many conveniences of life as would, in time, constitute a great part of the happiness of the world This was the first artificier in glass employed, though without his knowledge or expectation. He was... | |
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