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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 4 0 Browse Search
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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore) 2 0 Browse Search
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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
d 1355 B. C. At A, in Fig. 5108, two men are engaged in mixing and decanting; wine probably. One is exhausting the air from a siphon preparatory to placing the lower end of the long leg in the vase into which the ends of two other siphons are already placed. The siphon and its name are Greek. How much older than the Greeks as an intellectual nation, we know not. It was a favorite contrivance with Hero of Alexandria, 150 B. C., in his various toys and automata, of which the cup of Tantalus is a favorite instance, and has been reproduced in modern times. See the Spiritalia Heronis. C shows the ordinary siphon; it is filled with liquid, the ends stopped, and the shorter leg immersed in the vessel from which the liquid is to be drawn; the longer leg being placed in or over the receiving vessel. On opening the ends a continuous flow is maintained until the level of the liquid in the upper vessel reaches that of the orifice in the shorter leg of the siphon Siphons. B sh
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 117 (search)
lty of any attempt upon them. In front of a part of the Fourth Corps lay a large farm, extending through a fertile valley half a mile wide, and limited at either side by slight ridges, occupied by the respective combatants. This open stretch of about a mile in extent gave free play to the gunners at either end, and made it a very injudicious act to cross this space, even some distance in the rear. This farm was checkered with fine fields of green wheat and oats, but, like the apples of Tantalus, they might not be eaten. This, when the animals were limited to four pounds a day of grain (a third ration), with no hay, and all the grass in our country eaten up, and when the four pounds of yesterday weighed but three to-day and two to-morrow, was a great grievance. Accordingly, when the rebel bullets were no longer to be encountered, the orderlies and scullions and such as curry horses, trooped forth innumerable, and forthwith there was such a confiscation of heads of wheat, wheat pu
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1849. (search)
ch is hypocrisy); the other, the life of love, family, or otherwise, which is real: and you have plenty of support for both, and very little care for either. But wait until you only have support for one, the outer, and none at all for the other, the inner. Wait till you have to treasure up memories of each little act of affection, in place of having the realities about you daily, and you knowing all the time that these very realities exist, and you can't get at them. Did you ever read of Tantalus, of Ixion, and the other reprobates? Wait till distance blinds you to the faults, and exalts the virtues, of your friends, and you love them with a love the more absorbing and complete because it finds no response in daily life, and because it is all your inner and real life. Then, my dear, you won't call me a truculent border ruffian. Pshaw! what nonsense for me to write this stuff for you to laugh at! I love my friends, and that you know full well, that gave me leave or (if I migh
Margaret Fuller, Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (ed. W. H. Channing), chapter 11 (search)
teresting. At the Miserere of the Sistine chapel, I sat beside Goethe's favorite daughter-in-law, Ottilia, to whom I was introduced by Mrs. Jameson. to R. F. F. Florence, July 1, 1847.—I do not wish to go through Germany in a hurried way, and am equally unsatisfied to fly through Italy; and shall, therefore, leaving my companions in Switzerland, take a servant to accompany me, and return hither, and hence to Rome for the autumn, perhaps the winter. I should always suffer the pain of Tantalus thinking of Rome, if I could not see it more thoroughly than I have as yet even begun to; for it was all outside the two months, just finding out where objects were. I had only just begun to know them, when I was obliged to leave. The prospect of returning presents many charms, but it leaves me alone in the midst of a strange land. I find myself happily situated here, in many respects. The Marchioness Arconati Visconti, to whom I brought a letter from a friend of hers in France, has b
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book II:—secession. (search)
by the stifling smoke, would not be able either to silence the batteries of the enemy or to resist his attacks much longer. The Confederates continued the bombardment during the whole night of the 12th-13th. The garrison, however, had only a few wounded; there was no lack of courage, and the men were sustained by the sight of the Federal vessels, which had been discovered in the horizon, even in the midst of the conflict. But this distant apparition only made them suffer the torments of Tantalus; for if those ships were ready to brave the enemy's batteries, a heavy, rolling sea did not allow them to venture among the narrow and difficult passes at the entrance of the bay. At last the conflagration burst forth with renewed fury, and to avoid an explosion it was found necessary to saturate a portion of the powder with water, The ammunition was nearly exhausted; six guns only replied to the enemy's fire, and the garrison was reduced to the last extremity. The only food left consisted
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book IV:—the first autumn. (search)
nd the ammunition was nearly exhausted. Mulligan had set an example of the most heroic courage. Wherever there was any danger to be encountered he was seen on the spot, and his zeal alone sustained his men in that emergency. His only hope was in the arrival of reinforcements, so often asked and so impatiently looked for. This wish was about to be fulfilled; but so far from ameliorating his condition, it was only to render it the more galling by condemning him to suffer the torments of Tantalus. Sturgis had indeed arrived with his troops on the 19th on the opposite side of the Missouri, as Fremont had directed him; but being without cavalry, he had not been able to scout, and instead of the transport-boats he had counted upon, he found the shore where he should have landed lined with the enemy's skirmishers. Having no means of crossing, he was compelled to fall back and give up all hope of revictualling the besieged. At the same time, a steamer with a battalion of troops from J
The Daily Dispatch: September 20, 1861., [Electronic resource], Remedy for all the diseases of the hog. (search)
has the following, not without interest at this time: One of the most important things with the Roman, and what first engaged his attention in every undertaking, was the res frumentaria, the provision for his troops. He appears to have given much of his personal attention to the commissariat. Fraud and neglect could not easily elude his vigilance. In all our modern armies this appears to be the great stumbling block. Soldiers are often seen perishing with want and privation, like Tantalus, in the midst of abundance. Yet it is seldom, for want of means for preventing it, that such a state of things exists. The wants of the soldier are few and simple; his sacrifices, among our people at least, great and many: it should be the duty of those in power to see that he was well cared for. Napoleon thought the great essential was that every soldier should have two pairs of good shoes. We are told that the shoes given to the Northern army are often of the most miserable materials.
The Daily Dispatch: February 10, 1862., [Electronic resource], From the seacoast. (search)
t think it any more than a desire to drive us from a position which prevents all possibility of marauding upon the plantations in the vicinity, and which are within easy reach of their small steamers. We are almost entirely cut off from communication with the forces in this vicinity on the Carolina side, and though we may see the flash of the "red artillery," and hear the reverberating roar of its deadly music, we are cut off from any participation in the struggle, and are forced, like Tantalus, to see the favorable moment pass away and leave us only the same parching thirst for the refreshing drought. Like some wanderer, who, hidden in the mazes of a wood, hears the battle clang, the shouts of the victors, the greens of the wounded and the despairing agonies of the dying, and yet remains cut off from any knowledge of its cause, so we frequently are here. To await the report from the railroad at 5 P. M., brought from the account of a courier at Hardeeville, frequently garnished