The boy travellers in southern Europe : adventures of two youths in a journey through Italy, southern France, and Spain, with visits to Gibraltar and the islands of Sicily and Malta (1893)
Knox, Thomas Wallace, 1835-1896 · New York : Harper & Brothers · leaf 66
its glasshouses. A famous invention first proved that glass mightfeign the whiteness of crystal ; and as the wits of men are active and not slothful in add-ing something to inventions, they soon began to turn the material into various colors andnumberless forms. Hence came cups, beakers, tankards,… … 46 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN SOUTHERN EUROPE. for, there is no kind of precious stone which cannot be imitated by the industry of theglass-workers. Consider it to whom it did occur to include in a little ball all the sorts offlowers which clothe the meadows in spring ! Nor has the invention been…
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