 | Bartholomaeus (Anglicus) - 1893 - 212 pages
...him : by virtue of this stone, she is the sooner reconciled to have grace of her husband. OPCRYsTAL, Crystal is a bright stone and clear, with watery CAP....That crystal materially is made of water, Gregory on Ezekicl i. saith : water, saith he, is of itself fleeting, but by strength of cold it is turned and... | |
 | William Thomas Fernie - 1907 - 518 pages
...saith he, " is of itself fleeting ; but by strength of cold it is turned, and made stedfast Crystal. Men trowe that it is of snow, or ice, made hard in space of many years." Robert Boyle (1672), " found the weight of Crystal to be, as relative to that of water, as more than... | |
 | Julia de Wolf Gibbs Addison - 1908 - 496 pages
...crystal. " Men trowe that it is of snow or ice made hard in many years," he observes complacently. " This stone set in the sun taketh fire, insomuch if...dry tow be put thereto, it setteth the tow on fire," and again, quoting Gregory on Ezekiel I., he adds, " water is of itself fleeting, but by strength of... | |
 | John Dryden, George Villiers Duke of Buckingham - 1910 - 570 pages
...similarly Insert, approaching him. 94, 61. Bright, etc. "Crystal is a bright stone and clear, with watery colour. Men trowe that It is of snow or ice made hard in space of many years." STEKI.K, íícdi<eval Lore from Bartholomew ЛпдНсиа, London, 1005, p. 37. »в, 136. Fault,... | |
 | Bartholomaeus (Anglicus), Robert Steele - 1905 - 230 pages
...Crystal is a bright stone and clear, with watery colour. Men trowe that it is of snow or ice made ^ Jiard in space of many years. This stone set in the sun...he, is of itself fleeting, but by strength of cold ' I (/' ' it is turned and made stedfast crystal. And hereof Aristotle telleth the cause in his Meteorics... | |
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CAP. xxxj. colour. Men trowe that it is of snow or ice made hard in space of many years. This stone set in the sun taketh fire, insomuch if dry tow be put thereto, it setteth the tow on fire. 