“Strongly impressed with the idea that these stones contained gold and silver, they subjected them to all the tortures of ancient alchemy, and the goldsmith's crucible, the forge, and the blacksmith's anvil, were employed in vain to elicit riches which ex
“Strongly impressed with the idea that these stones contained gold and silver, they subjected them to all the tortures of ancient alchemy, and the goldsmith's crucible, the forge, and the blacksmith's anvil, were employed in vain to elicit riches which ex
“强烈地认为这些石头中含有黄金和白银，他们使这些石头遭受了所有古代炼金术的折磨，动用了金匠的坩埚、熔炉和铁匠的铁砧，但是这些想要获得那些仅存在于想象中的财富的努力都白费了。”