...procure a body at once in a high degree solid and transparent, which might admit the light of the sun and exclude the violence of the wind, which might...and, what is yet of more importance, might supply the decay of nature and succour old age with subsidiary sight. Thus was the first artificer of glass employed,...

...procure a body at once in a high degree solid and transparent, which might admit the light of the sun, and exclude the violence of the wind, which might...and at another, with the endless subordination of the animal life, and, what is yet of more importance, might supply the decay of nature, and succor...

...procure a body at once in a high degree solid and transparent. which would admit the light of the sun, and exclude the violence of the wind ; which might...and what is yet of more importance might supply the decay of and succor old age with subsidiary sight. Thus was the first artificer of glass employed,...

...procure a body at once in a high degree solid and transparent; which might admit the light of the sun, and exclude the violence of the wind; which might...charm him at one time with the unbounded extent of material creation, and at another with the endless subordination of animal life; and, what is of yet...

...a body, at once, in a high degree, solid and transparent ; which might admit the light of the sun, and exclude the violence of the wind ; which might...charm him, at one time, with the unbounded extent of material creation, and at another with the endless subordination of animal life ; and, what is of yet...