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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), A. (search)
ty of Frascati. The fifth (Aqua Julia) was about six miles long, and entered the city near the Porta Esquilina. The sixth (Aqua Virginis) was constructed by Agrippa thirteen years after the Julia. Its summit, in the territory of Tusculum, was about eight miles from Rome, which it entered by the Pincian Gate. This water stilrs were collected in reservoirs called castella, and thence were conveyed through the city in leaden pipes. The keepers of the reservoirs were called castellani. Agrippa alone built thirty of these reservoirs during his aedileship. There are five modern ones now standing in the city: one at the Porta Maggiore, Castello della Acqu 291) exhibit to the same scale, — 1. The Pont du Gard Aqueduct, at Nismes, under which the river Gardon passes, and which was built by the Romans, possibly by Agrippa. The conduit is 157 feet above the river, and is referred to above. 2. The Solani Aqueduct of the Ganges Canal; the area of the water-way is eighty times th
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), B. (search)
e whole or a part of the person may be washed or bathed. 2. A house or place where such conveniences are provided. 3. A tank containing a liquid for galvanic or electro-metallurgic purposes. 4. A vessel containing a fluid metal or heated composition, as a lead-bath or sand-bath. Baths were long used in Oriental countries, and traveled by the route of Egypt to Greece. Homer mentions the use of the bath as an old custom. From Greece they reached Rome, imported, as it is said, by Agrippa. The thermae (hot baths) were very splendid, and adorned for a people who spent much leisure among the baths and their voluptuous accessories. The marble group of Laocoon was found in 1506 in the Baths of Titus, erected about A. D. 80; and the Farnese Hercules in the Baths of Caracalla, erected A. D. 217. A rollicking Greek thus writes: — And lately baths, too, have been introduced, — things which formerly men would not have permitted to exist inside a city. And Antiphanes point
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
semicircle of 14 feet diameter, formed of hewn blocks, without cement. The whole sewer was 32 feet high, having a sectional area of 448 feet. (See Cresy's Dictionary of civil Engineering ; Smith's Dictionary of Grecian and Roman Antiquities. ) Agrippa sailed through this sewer in a boat, and Nero caused some of his victims to be thrown into the sewers. So numerous were they that Pliny terms Rome urbs pensilis, a city supported on arches. The arch has long been supposed to be of Roman origtended to be elliptical in cross-section, and it is claimed to have been suggested by the shape of the exterior aural canals of various animals. Father Kircher takes occasion in this connection to mock the conclusions of Baptista Porta and Cornelius Agrippa that a sound might be made and then imprisoned in a tube by shutting up both ends, and then letting it out as required. A very remarkable instance of this was afterward cited in the veracious history of Baron Munchausen, whose tunes became
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays, Ought women to learn the alphabet? (search)
le Sexe Masculin; and with her came Margaret Boufflet and a host of others; and finally, in England, Mary Wollstonecraft, whose famous book, formidable in its day, would seem rather conservative now; and in America, that pious and worthy dame, Mrs. H. Mather Crocker, Cotton Mather's grandchild, who, in 1848, published the first book on the Rights of woman ever written on this side the Atlantic. Meanwhile there have never been wanting men, and strong men, to echo these appeals. From Cornelius Agrippa and his essay (1509) on the excellence of woman and her pre-eminence over man, down to the first youthful thesis of Agassiz, Mens Feminae Viri Animo superior, there has been a succession of voices crying in the wilderness. In England, Anthony Gibson wrote a book, in 1599, called A Woman's Woorth, defended against all the Men in the World, proving them to be more Perfect, Excellent, and Absolute in all Vertuous Actions than any Man of what Qualitie soever, Interlarded with Poetry. Per
James Russell Lowell, Among my books, Dante. (search)
end to the conventional elegance which makes the charm of French, and the most virile of poets cannot be adequately rendered in the most feminine of languages. Yet in the works of Fauriel, Ozanam, Ampere, and Villemain, France has given a greater impulse to the study of Dante than any other country except Germany. Into Germany the Commedia penetrated later. How utterly Dante was unknown there in the sixteenth century is plain from a passage in the Vanity of the Arts and Sciences of Cornelius Agrippa, where he is spoken of among the authors of lascivious stories: There have been many of these historical pandars, of which some of obscure fame, as Aeneas Sylvius, Dantes, and Petrarch, Boccace, Pontanus, etc. Ed. Lond. 1684, p. 199. The first German translation was that of Kannegiesser (1809). Versions by Streckfuss, Kopisch, and Prince John (late king) of Saxony followed. Goethe seems never to have given that attention to Dante which his ever-alert intelligence might have been ex
James Russell Lowell, Among my books, Wordsworth. (search)
ved them of the contented repose of implicit faith. To the child a watch seems to be a living creature; but Wordsworth would not let his readers be children, and did injustice to himself by giving them an uneasy doubt whether creations which really throbbed with the very heart's-blood of genius, and were alive with nature's life of life, were not contrivances of wheels and springs. A naturalness which we are told to expect has lost the crowning grace of nature. The men who walked in Cornelius Agrippa's visionary gardens had probably no more pleasurable emotion than that of a shallow wonder, or an equally shallow self-satisfaction in thinking they had hit upon the secret of the thaumaturgy; but to a tree that has grown as God willed we come without a theory and with no botanical predilections, enjoying it simply and thankfully; or the Imagination recreates for us its past summers and winters, the birds that have nested and sung in it, the sheep that have clustered in its shade, the
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 2. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Poems of Nature (search)
am The Mohawk's softly winding stream; The level light of sunset shine Through broad Potomac's hem of pine; And autumn's rainbow-tinted banner Hang lightly o'er the Susquehanna; Yet wheresoe'er his step might be, Thy wandering child looked back to thee Heard in his dreams thy river's sound Of murmuring on its pebbly bound, The unforgotten swell and roar Of waves on thy familiar shore; And saw, amidst the curtained gloom And quiet of his lonely room, Thy sunset scenes before him pass; As, in Agrippa's magic glass, The loved and lost arose to view, Remembered groves in greenness grew, Bathed still in childhood's morning dew, Along whose bowers of beauty swept Whatever Memory's mourners wept, Sweet faces, which the charnel kept, Young, gentle eyes, which long had slept; And while the gazer leaned to trace, More near, some dear familiar face, He wept to find the vision flown,— A phantom and a dream alone! 1841. Hampton Beach. the sunlight glitters keen and bright, Where, miles awa
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 2. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Poems Subjective and Reminiscent (search)
with stories which he at least half believed, of witchcraft and apparitions. My mother, who was born in the Indian-haunted region of Somersworth, New Hampshire, between Dover and Portsmouth, told us of the inroads of the savages, and the narrow escape of her ancestors. She described strange people who lived on the Piscataqua and Cocheco, among whom was Bantam the sorcerer. I have in my possession the wizard's conjuring book, which he solemnly opened when consulted. It is a copy of Cornelius Agrippa's Magic printed in 1651, dedicated to Dr. Robert Child, who, like Michael Scott, had learned the art of glammorie In Padua beyond the sea, and who is famous in the annals of Massachusetts, where he was at one time a resident, as the first man who dared petition the General Court for liberty of conscience. The full title of the book is Three Books of Occult Philosophy, by Henry Cornelius Agrippa, Knight, Doctor of both Laws, Counsellor to Caesar's Sacred Majesty and Judge of the Prero
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 5. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Tales and Sketches (search)
alism, with its inspired priests and priestesses, its revelations and oracular responses. But in many a green valley of rural New England there are children yet; boys and girls are still to be found not quite overtaken by the march of mind. There, too, are huskings, and apple-bees, and quilting parties, and huge old-fashioned fireplaces piled with crackling walnut, flinging its rosy light over happy countenances of youth and scarcely less happy age. If it be true that, according to Cornelius Agrippa, a wood fire doth drive away dark spirits, it is, nevertheless, also true that around it the simple superstitions of our ancestors still love to linger; and there the half-sportful, half-serious charms of which I have spoken are oftenest resorted to. It would be altogether out of place to think of them by our black, unsightly stoves, or in the dull and dark monotony of our furnace-heated rooms. Within the circle of the light of the open fire safely might the young conjurers question