 | Edward Young - 1852 - 528 páginas
...softness of wax, the mild lustre even of their original polish, while those which were constructed of Pentelican marble have been decomposed, and sometimes...surface as earthy and as rude as common limestone. The true Parian marble has generally somewhat of a faint bluish tinge among the white, and often has... | |
 | Horace - 1855 - 718 páginas
...softness of wax, the mild lustre even of their original polish, those which were finished in PentcIiiMii marble have been decomposed, and sometimes exhibit...surface as earthy and as rude as common limestone. This is principally owing to veins of extraneous substances which intersect the Penteliian quarries,... | |
 | Edward Young - 1856 - 536 páginas
...softness of wax, the mild lustre even of their original polish, while those which were constructed of Pentelican marble have been decomposed, and sometimes...surface as earthy and as rude as common limestone. The true Parian marble has generally somewhat of a faint bluish tinge among the white, and often has... | |
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Pentelican marble have been decomposed, and sometimes exhibit a surface as earthy and as rude as common limestone. This is principally owing to veins of extraneous substances which intersect the Pentelican quarries, and which appear more or less in all... 
