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The Third-Class Reader; Designed for the Use of the Younger Classes in the Schools of the United States - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1838. Excerpt: ... same fate with them." People, now-a-days, are known by the company they keep, and are dealt with accordingly 6. So the poor stork was strangled with the geese, and thus paid the penalty, as many persons have done since, of a thoughtless association with evil companions. LII. Lesson Fifty-second.--Gold and Silver. 1. Gold is usually placed first in the list of metals, and has by almost all nations, in all ages, been considered the most valuable of them all. It is difficult to find a sufficient reason for this preference. Gold is, as we know, not by any means the most useful of them; nevertheless, it has some peculiar properties, which, perhaps, with its beautiful color, have contributed to raise its value. 2. Jt is the most ductile of all metals, and of all substances whatever; that is, the most pliant, flexible, and capable of being drawn out, or spread out without breaking. 3. Now remember what I am about to tell you:--a single pound of gold may be drawn into a wire long enough to go round the globs! It may be hammered into leaves, that are forty times thinner than common writing paper. You see, therefore, of what astonishingly fine particles gold consists. 4. This quality of extreme ductility, makesSt possible to gild a very large surface with a very little gold. Articles that are thus covered, as picture-frames and watch-cases, have the rich and splendid hue of gold itself, and that with comparatively trifling cost. 5. Another valuable quality of gold is, that h does not rust. You know, a piece of iron, or steel, however brightly polished, if exposed for any length of time to damp air, will become red and rough, and in time would be almost consumed by the mere effect of moisture; but a gold wire, thinner than a hair, would remain uninjured in any clima...
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