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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
g the works of Aristotle, with or without the original. 2. Aristotelis Problemata. Editions This version was made under the pontificate of Nicholas V., and revised under that of Sixtus IV.; and was printed at Rome A. D. 1475. The earliest edition mentioned by Fabricius is that of Venice. Fol. A. D. 1493. 3. Theophrasti Historia Plantarum Libri X., Editions and De Causis Plantarum Libri VI. This version, prepared during the pontificate of Nicholas V., was first printed at Treviso, A. D. 1483. (Panzer, Annal. Typog. vol. iii. p. 40.) It has been repriced, with corrections, by Heinsius and Bodaeus. The little book, Theophrasti de Suffructibus, Theodoro Gaza Interprete, published by H. Sybold, at Strasburg, is merely a reprint of the last four books of the Historia Plantarum. 4. Alexandri Aphrodisiei Problematum Libri II., Editions printed at Venice (fol. A. D. 1501); and often reprinted. Gaza, in his preface to this translation, rejects the common opinion, that it was the w
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Petition of right, the (search)
n sequestered into the hands of some subjects to be employed for the guarding of the seas. And it is acknowledged by the ordinary answers of your Majesty's predecessors in their assent to the Bills of subsidies of Tonnage and Poundage, that it is of the nature of other subsidies, proceeding from the goodwill of the subject. Very few of your predecessors had it for life, until the reign of Henry VII, Tonnage and poundage was granted for life to Edward IV. in 1464. It was also granted in 1483 to Richard III. for life. who was so far from conceiving he had any right thereunto, that although he granted commissions for collecting certain duties and customs due by law, yet lie made no commissions for receiving the subsidy of Tonnage and Poundage, until the same was granted unto him in Parliament. Since his time all the Kings and Queens of this realm have had the like grants for life by the free love and goodwill of the subjects. And whensoever the people have been grieved by laying
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865, Chapter 9: (search)
f small-arms ammunition; four thousand five hundred sets of accoutrements; over five hundred muskets; nine regimental flags; a large number of pistols, knapsacks, swords, canteens, and blankets; a great many axes and intrenching tools; wagons, ambulances, hospital stores, and not a small quantity of subsistence. We also captured fully sixteen hundred prisoners, including those who recovered from their wounds. Our loss in this memorable battle was computed as follows: Killed, 369; wounded, 1483; making an aggregate of 1852. This statement is taken from General Beauregard's report. In General Johnston's report, written from Fairfax Court-House, the result was summed up in this wise: Killed, 378; wounded, 1489; missing, 30; aggregate, 1897. The enemy's loss was not officially acknowledged at the time. The feeling which had led the Northern press to conceal the real strength of General McDowell's army seems also to have impelled the enemy to withhold a true statement of his casu
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), L. (search)
ved from dry distillation of mercury, etc., are condensed. See condenser. Lac. A resin obtained from the Ficus indica. See resin. Lace. A kind of network of threads of flax, cotton, gold or silver wire, or other suitable material, forming a fabric of transparent texture. Its origin is not known, but it appears to have been used by the ladies of ancient Greece and Rome. It was early used in Northern Italy, and is said to have been introduced into France by Mary de Medicis. In 1483 its importation into England was prohibited. The systematic manufacture was introduced into England by refugees from Flanders. Lace was anciently worked by the needle. The invention of lace knitting is attributed to Barbara, wife of Christopher Huttman, a German miner, in 1560. A manufactory was established in France by Colbert, in 1566. Point lace was embroidered with the needle. Bone lace (temp. of Charles 1.) was a kind of thread lace, and received its name from the bobbins
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), P. (search)
g, and were sometimes of wood, ivory, or bone. Hair-pins were common for holding up the knot of braided hair. Before the invention of pins there were many pretty and ingenious devices for fastening the dresses and ornaments of both sexes, such as ribbons, loop-holes, laces with pearls and tags, clasps, hooks and eyes, and skewers made of gold, silver, and brass. From the latter pins were derived, being only miniature skewers. The first mention of brass pins in the English statutes is in 1483, when their importation was prohibited. An act of Henry VIII., A. D. 1543, indicates the clumsy things they were: No person shall put to sale any pinnes, but only such as shall be double-headed, and have the heads soldered fast to the shank of the pinne, well smoothed, the shank well shaven, the point well and round filed, canted and sharpened. The mode of making them was much improved about 1560. Catherine Howard, queen of Henry VIII., it is said, used brass pins brought from France.
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
always a little below concert pitch. The famous sword of Orlando was said to have been the work of the fairies, and its name Durandal (dur en diable, as hard as the devil ) is indicative of its origin, and accounts for the fact (?) that he was able to cleave the Pyrenees with it. It was also called Durandarte, Durindana, Durlindana. Curtana was another famous sword of Orlando. Its name was given to the first royal sword of England from a very early period; in the wardrobe accounts for 1483 it is so designated. Morglay (glaive de la mort) was the sword of Sir Bevis of Southampton. Tizona was the famous sword of the Cid. Andrea Ferrara, so long believed to be the name of a celebrated Italian sword-maker, must be given up Andrea is only an occasional prefix, and Ferrara is most probably a corruption of ferrarium, a weapon-smith, or cutler. The Lord Mayor of London used to bear three swords, — a common, a Sunday, and a pearl sword. These were not famous in chivalric re
James Russell Lowell, Among my books, Dante. (search)
s built by Guido, as is asserted by Balbo (Vita, I. Lib. II. Cap. XVII.), whom De Vericour copies without question, we are at a loss to account for the preservation of the original epitaph replaced by Cardinal Bembo when he built the new tomb, in 1483. Bembo's own inscription implies an already existing monument, and, if in disparaging terms, yet epitaphial Latin verses are not to be taken too literally, considering the exigencies of that branch of literary ingenuity. The doggerel Latin has blorence got a cenotaph fairly built in Santa Croce (by Ricci), ugly beyond even the usual lot of such, with three colossal figures on it, Dante in the middle, with Italy on one side and Poesy on the other. The tomb at Ravenna, built originally in 1483, by Cardinal Bembo, was restored by Cardinal Corsi in 1692, and finally rebuilt in its present form by Cardinal Gonzaga, in 1780, ail three of whom commemorated themselves in Latin inscriptions. It is a little shrine covered with a dome, not unli
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 30. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Graduates of the United States Military Academy at West Point, N. Y., [from the Richmond, Va., Dispatch, March 30, April 6, 27, and May 12, 1902.] (search)
1862 by Major Alfred Rhett, of same regiment. Robert Johnston. 1477. Born Virginia. Appointed Virginia 28. Colonel, commanding Third Virginia Cavalry, Fitzhugh Lee's Brigade, Army of Northern Virginia, 1862. Thomas Bingham.* 1478. Born Pennsylvania. Appointed Pennsylvania. 29. William L. Cabell.* 1482. Born Virginia. Appointed Virginia. 33. Brigadier-General, January 20, 1863. Commanding First Brigade, Second Division, Army of the West. James H. Wilson. 1483. Born Tennessee. Appointed Tennessee. 34. Lieutenant-Colonel Eighth Arkansas Infantry. Robert G. Cole. 1486. Born Virginia. Appointed at Large. 37. Lieutenant-Colonel, 1862, Chief Commissary of subsistence of Army of Northern Virginia. John J. A. A. Mouton. 1487. Born Louisiana. Appointed Louisiana. 38. Brigadier-General, April 16, 1862. Commanding brigade, Trans-Mississippi Department. Killed April 8, 1864, at Mansfield, La. James L. Corley. 1489. Born South