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We are the photometers, we the irritable goldleaf and tinfoil that measure the accumulations of the subtle element. We know the authentic effects of the true fire through every one of its million disguises. "I was as a gem concealed; Me my burning ray revealed." Koran. Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfilments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.
"This Part consisting of a glasscoverbox enclosing a idol of Chinese fabulousquadruped called 'sai' or Lion, covered with goldleaf ornamented with coined pieces of silver & rings a black bag of funeral balls enclosing some pieces of gold and silver coins &c., in funeral service of Her late Royal Highness the forenamed princess, the ninth daughter or sixteenth offspring of His Majesty the reigning Supreme King of Siam, which took place in ceremony continued from 16th to 21st day of February Anno Christi 1864. prepared ex-property of Her late lamented Royal Highness the deceased, and assistant funds from certain members of the Royal Family, designed from his Gracious Majesty Somdetch P'hra Paramendr Maha Mongkut, Her late Royal Highness' bereaved Royal father.
After he had thus uttered some forty distinct sounds, he drew from the back of the instrument a slip of something like goldleaf, on which as many weird curves and angular figures were traced in crimson. Pointing to these in succession, he repeated the sounds in order.
Then her eyes began absently studying the inscriptions on the windows of the next building, beyond an intervening court, and she smothered an impulse to scream as a sign across several broad panes flared at her in goldleaf. "Hamilton Montagu Burton." A bitter fascination held her gaze there.
'It is not unusual, said Colney. At eleven o'clock he was in London, and Nesta rode beside Mrs. Marsett amid the troop. A South-easterly wind blew the waters to shifty goldleaf prints of brilliance under the sun. 'I took a liberty this morning, I called you "Dear" this morning, the lady said. 'It's what I feel, only I have no right to blurt out everything I feel, and I was ashamed.
'It is not unusual, said Colney. At eleven o'clock he was in London, and Nesta rode beside Mrs. Marsett amid the troop. A South-easterly wind blew the waters to shifty goldleaf prints of brilliance under the sun. 'I took a liberty this morning, I called you "Dear" this morning, the lady said. 'It's what I feel, only I have no right to blurt out everything I feel, and I was ashamed.
A crowd had collected to see whether I should recognise myself, and when I did so, the merriment was extreme. They begged me to send them a supply of vermilion, goldleaf, and brushes; our so called camel's-hair pencils being much superior to theirs, which are made of marmot's hair.
It stands alone on the plain near a group of banyans, and its erection no doubt gained many myriads of merits for the conscience-stricken Buddhist who found the money to build it. All goldleaf has been peeled off the pagoda years ago. It was a picturesque party that now enfiladed into the wide stretch of sand which in the rainy season forms the bed of the river.
This one is a first-rate gilder, she mistressed it entirely in three days. The last thing they did in this way was an elephant. Cost of casting him, reckoning labor and the percentage he ought to pay to the mold, was 1s. 4d. Plaster, chrome, water-size and oil-size, 3d.; goldleaf, 3s.; 1 foot of German velvet, 4d.; thread, needles and wear of tools, 1d.; total, 5s.
It was Botticelli who was engaged to paint the portraits of the Pazzi family, which to their shame and humiliation were to be displayed upon the palace walls. One peculiarity of this artist's pictures was that he used actual goldleaf to make the high lights upon hair, leaves, and draperies.
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