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Ch. 2: Precious Stones

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PRECIOUS STONES.
beauty of colour, with a conspicuous attractiveness, if lent for temporary wear to a differently constituted, and more happily circumstanced friend, who is blithe-hearted, sincere, and of childlike simplicity of motive, and purpose.
The belief that certain Precious Stones can exercise the virtue of betraying the presence of poison by sweat­ing, is mentioned by Holinshed (1577). In speaking about the death of King John, he says : " And thereupon the King suspected them (the Pears) to be poisoned; indeed this by reason that such precious stones as he had about him cast forth a certain sweat, as it were bewraeing the poison," etc., etc.
Plato (B.C. 400) supposed the origin of Precious Stones to be the vivifying spirit abiding in the stars, which converts the most vile and putrid matter into the most perfect objects.
As already stated, the Twelve Stones which were in the Breast-plate of the High Priest were : the Sard, the Topaz, the Carbuncle, or Ruby, the Emerald, the Sapphire, the Diamond, the Ligure, the Agate, the Amethyst, the Beryl, the Onyx, and the Jasper. On the shoulder-knot were likewise two Onyx stones, engraved with the names of the twelve tribes, to each of which one or the other of these stones was consecrated. The Shekinah in the Breast-plate became obscured with
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