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Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients

Note 407 — ESSAYS. (continued 3)

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Spangles, or O’s of gold or silver. Beckmann says that these were invented in the beginning of the seventeenth century. See Beckmann’s Hist. of Inventions (Bohn’s Stand. Lib.), vol. i. p. 424.

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