Engraved gems; their history and place in art, in which is embodied the author's former treatise, with extensive revisions and additions; reminiscences of travels in the pursuit and acquisition of engraved gems ... to which is added a descriptive list of the author's cabinet of gems, forming a compend of Greek and Roman classics and antiquities .. (1889)
Sommerville, Maxwell, 1829-1904 · Philadelphia, M. Sommerville · leaf 246
lly to be wise! The at-tendant dervishes then l)rought i)ackages of underclothingand other garments before the patriarchal sheikh, who patientlvopened them out and l)reathe(l on evei\ piece. Such Averethe people, I said to myself, who felt reliance in mystic gems,and, clutching jny talismans safely… … SUEZ CANAL. 241 We now participated or assisted at several festivals andtheir out-door-ceremonies, when I again saw snake-charmers,story-tellers, and itinerant fakirs while attending the completionof my camping outtit for Syria, which for sanitary reasons I hadordered to be made of entirely new…
Gems · Classical antiquities
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