Gods and devils of mankind : the whole dark picture strikingly contrasted with the beauty and purity of revealed religion / by Frank S. Dobbins ; assisted by Hon. S. Wells Williams (1897)
Dobbins, Frank S. (Frank Stockton), 1855-1916 · [S.l.] · leaf 590
or the transitory glories of the battle-field. In the money market a white elephant is almostbeyond price. Fifty thousand dollars would hardly repre-sent its pecuniary value; a hair from its tail is worth aJews ransom. It was my good fortune, he says, to pre-sent to the First King of Siam (the… … a golden box, locked with a golden key, and he informedme the box contained a gift far more valuable than allthe rest, and that was a few hairs of the white elephant. 59Q WORSHIP OF THE WHITE ELEPHANT. And perhaps it may be well to state why the white ele-phant is so specially reverenced. It is…
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