 | Bernardin de Saint-Pierre - 1836 - 446 psl.
...possession of the learned Count de Caylus constellated rings of gold, or Egyptian talismans, as entire as if they had just come from the hands of the workman. The sa STUDIES Or NATURE. 299 vages who have no knowledge of iron are acquainted with gold, and value... | |
 | 1845 - 440 psl.
...and covered with sentences from the Koran carved in elaborate relief. Many of these head-stones look as if they had just come from the hands of the workman ; they are all in one style ; their shape is an elegant oblong; their proportions and mouldings suggesting... | |
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... as if they had just come from the hands of the workman, and his air and manner were those of a practised man of the world. 