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 97
closino-ones eyes on the sinful world was the incentive wliicli formedat first asylums, and so(tn after monasteries: and the monasticlife became popular: wavering men, feeling themselves tooweak to face the temptations of the world, resorted to theseholy retreats and there sought God. Few… … NIGHT OF ART. 93 The numerous orders of monks during this barbarous epochcollected all that possibly could be saved from the destroyingavalanche, and with great diligence transcribed on parchmenttypes of the existing literature. These bequests are interest-ing, and in many instances very curious…
Gems · Classical antiquities
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