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 299
ead them through Christ to their heavenlyFather. After seeing a number of miracles performed on the sickand suffering credulous human beings who presented them-selves before tlie patriarchal sheikh, wearv of these emotionalscenes, Atanus and I gladly witluh-ew, and, clianging air andscene, we were… … CONSTANTINOPLE. 295 eyes drank in; tlie quota f)f fumes wliich we involuntarilvinlialed from myriad steaming cups, chibouques, and nargilehs,which charged the atmosphere; and the monotonous strainsof rude music, the symphonies of tlie Arabic race, which, fall-ing weirdly on our tutored ears, were…
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