Palissy the Potter: The Life of Bernard Palissy, of SaintesChapman and Hall, 1855 - 494 pagina's |
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Palissy the Potter: The Life of Bernard Palissy, of Saintes (Classic Reprint) Henry Morley Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 2016 |
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¹ Discours afterwards Allevert apothecary baked Bernard Palissy Bordeaux Brother Robin cabinet called Calvin Cardinal Catherine of Medicis cause Church colour constable Constable Montmorenci court death Discours Admirables doctrine Duke of Guise earth enamel enemies fire fishes folly France French friends fruit furnace gabelle garden glass-workers gold head Henry heretics honour Huguenots invention Jean kind King Francis King of Navarre la Boissière labour live Luca della Robbia manure marshes matter means melted metals mind Montluc Montmorenci mountains named nature opinion Palissy's Paracelsus Paris pass petrifaction Philebert philosophers physician Pierre Poitou poor Potter preach Prince of Condé prisoner queen reason Recepte Veritable Reformed rock rustic Saintes Saintonge salt seen Seigneur shells speak stones tell theory things thought tion took town of Xaintes treatise trees vessels walls white enamel wife wood writing
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Pagina 256 - He sendeth the springs into the valleys, which run among the hills. They give drink to every beast of the field : the wild asses quench their thirst. By them shall the fowls of the heaven have their habitation, which sing among the branches. He watereth the hills from his chambers : the earth is satisfied with the fruit of thy works.
Pagina 172 - And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
Pagina 475 - Then answered they and said before the King, That Daniel, which is of the children of the captivity of Judah, regardeth not thee, O King, nor the decree that thou hast signed, but maketh his petition three times a day.
Pagina 153 - Then, because I had never seen earth baked, nor could I tell by what degree of heat the said enamel should be melted, it was impossible for me to get any result in this way, though my chemicals should have been right ; because at one time the mass might have been heated too much, at another time too little...
Pagina 143 - All these defects caused me such labour and heaviness of spirit, that before I could render my enamels fusible at the same degree of heat, I thought I should be at the door of my sepulchre.
Pagina 155 - God willed that when I had begun to lose my courage, and was gone for the last time to a glass-furnace, having a man with me carrying more than three hundred kinds of trial-pieces, there was one among those pieces which was melted within four hours after it had been placed in the furnace, which trial turned out white and polished in a way that caused me such joy as made me think I was become a new creature...
Pagina 80 - Cosa singolare, e multo utile per la state! — a curious thing, and very useful for summer-time, full of coolness and repose for hand and eye. Luca loved the forms of various fruits, and wrought them into all sorts of marvellous frames and garlands, giving them their natural colours, only subdued...
Pagina 161 - ... burnt, because they were composed of different materials, that were fusible in different degrees — the green of the lizards was burnt before the colour of the serpents was melted, and the colour of the serpents, lobsters, tortoises, and crabs, was melted before the white had attained any beauty.
Pagina 434 - ... finding its own level. It is true that there is land below the sea level. The Dead Sea is 1300 feet below the level of the Mediterranean, and all the land about the Caspian is depressed. The level of the sea, also, in Mediterranean seas and gulfs, is affected by local circumstances, and does not at all times correspond with the level of the open water.
Pagina 159 - I received nothing but shame and confusion ; for my pieces were all bestrewn with little morsels of flint, that were attached so firmly to each vessel, and so combined with the enamel, that when one passed the hand over it, the said flints cut like razors : and although the work was in this way lost, there were still some who would buy it at a mean price ; but, because that would have been a decrying and abasing of my...