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Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 2 6 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 4 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore) 4 0 Browse Search
Lydia Maria Child, Isaac T. Hopper: a true life 4 0 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 4 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 4 0 Browse Search
Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches 2 0 Browse Search
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army 2 0 Browse Search
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks) 2 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: August 4, 1864., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), F. (search)
the pot, but they had no table-forks. The carver, carptor, had a knife for carving, and the guests furnished their own. The meat was grasped by the finger and thumb of the left hand, and a piece excised. The New Testament, Homer, and Ovid mention the putting of the hands in the dish. Corkscrew hay-fork. The dipping in the dish refers to making a scoop of a piece of bread and dipping out the soup or gravy. To give a sop thus prepared to a friend at table was a delicate attention. Judas received his and went out. The mark of kindness was too much even for his selfish heart. The Chinese use chop-sticks instead of forks. Bronze forks were used by the Egyptian priests in presenting offerings to the gods. Two of them exhumed at Sakkarah are in the Abbott collection. A fork is mentioned in the accounts of Edward I., and is supposed to have been brought from the East by a returning crusader. Voltaire says that they were used by the Lombards in the fourteenth century;
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ldiers being armed with spears, shields, and battleaxes, and a third one carrying a lantern a little in advance. The panes were probably of talc, the lapis specularius of the Romans. The modern Egyptian lantern consists of a waxed cloth strained over a cylinder of wire rings, and having a top and bottom of perforated copper. The mob came out from Jerusalem to search for the Saviour with lanterns and weapons. The moon rose at about 6 P. M. on that night, but it was probably cloudy, or Judas may have suspected that his master would hide in some covert on the mountain. Lanterns are referred to by the Greek authors: — The man who first invented the idea Of walking out by night with a lantern, Was very careful not to burn his fingers. Alexis. So taking out the candle from his lantern. Ibid. A well-lit horn lantern. Eumelus: quoted by ATHENAeUS, A. D. 220. The lanterns of Epictetus and Diogenes will not be soon forgotten. See also candle. Lanterns are re