Was the Phoenix of the ancients but an old civilization, enervated by luxury and corrupted by peace, that could only be purified of its foul dross and infused with new energy by fire?
Youth and ardor and opportunity, yet no thought of evil--all the drossin human nature transformed into the spirituelle by the pure white light of love.
The dross that forms on melted lead exposed to a current of air, roasted until it acquires a uniform yellow colour.
On the commercial scale, this oxide is prepared by heating the grey film or dross that forms on the surface of melted lead when freely exposed to the air.
A crude peroxide of tin, obtained by exposing metallic tin in a reverberatory furnace, and raking off the dross as it forms; this is afterwards calcined until it becomes whitish, and is then reduced to powder.
Ezechiel Chapter 22 The general corruption of the inhabitants of Jerusalem: for which God will consume them as dross in his furnace.
Burn fiercely night and day, 'Till all the dross of earthly loves Is burned, and burned away.
All shall be dross for thee, All shall be loss for thee, Welcome the cross for thee I, too, shall win!
The fab'lous wretch of old revers'd I seem, Who turn whatever I touch to dross of rhime.
He must by a particular chemistry, extract the essence of things; without soiling his wit with dross or trumpery.
The last sight she had of him, was as he stood looking down Waterloo Place, his eyes picking out the people one by one, as the miner sifts the dross from the dust of gold.
There she had seen the keen acid of implacable justice separating, with undeviating precision, the dross from the gold.
A time when God purges the man, and tries him in the fire, and burns up the dross in him, that the pure sterling gold only may be left.
Then they are truly purged in the fire of affliction, that whatever dross and trash is in their hearts may be burnt out, and the pure gold left.
But she possessed that "alchemy divine" which could transform even her dross into gold; and what might have been her weakness became her strength, when she placed her supreme regards upon excellence supreme.
Second, keep the metal thoroughly mixed when burning and keep all dross cleaned off the surface.
The lead should be melted first and all the dross cleaned off.
Now take a 3-inch ladle and heat it over the fire and then dip it into the solder and skim off any dross that may have collected.
Yet, as with the covering and the covered object, so here with the dross and the impure gold, sin is conceived of as a substance alien to that of the soul.
He scarce had need to doff his pride or slough the dross of Earth -- E'en as he trod that day to God so walked he from his birth, In simpleness and gentleness and honour and clean mirth.
Take away the dross from the silver, and there shall come forth a vessel for the finer.
As the miser sets his heart on worthless dross and accumulates it, so an unenlightened person clings to worthless mental dross and spiritual rubbish, and makes his mind a dust-heap.
He has a mental alchemy by which he can produce golden instruction out of the dross of failure.
Do this again and again, for the more often you roast it and extinguish it, the more easily the ore can be crushed fine, and the more quickly does it melt in the fire and give up whatever dross it possesses.
The drosswhich adheres to the wood and the charcoal, having been collected, is re-smelted in the furnace.
It is the hand of the Almighty 'purely purging away the dross and all the tin' from his church, that it might be called the "city of righteousness.
It is designed to assay and remove the dross of the whole body of Christ.
And who would wish again the dross Here purged in our Redeemer's name?
Nor would we wish again the dross Here purged in our Redeemer's name.
Facts are not the dross of history, but the true metal, and the historian is a worker in that metal.
In his well-known essay on history, contributed to the Edinburgh Review in 1828, we find him writing as follows: 'Facts are the meredross of history.
To purify the soul from the dross and filthof sensual delights.
The dross of humanity is rejected: all the common wants and grosser feelings of our natures are disallowed.
