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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), W. (search)
luaEastern U. S.Inferior to the black. HawthornCrataegus oxyacanthaEurope, etcHard and white; takes a good polish. Turnery. HazelCorylus avellanaEuropeWhite; takes a good polish. Turnery, hoops, etc. Hemlock (spruce)Abies canadensisNorthern AmericaVarious. Hickory (Eastern shell-bark)Carya albaEast of AlleghaniesHard. Implements and vehicles. Hickory (Western shell-bark, etc.)Carya sulcata, etcMississippi ValleyHard. Implements and wagons. HollyIlex aquifoliumEuropeHard. Turnery, cabited StatesVarious. Turpentine. Pine (red)Pinus resinosaEastern U. S.Building, etc. Pine (spruce)Pinus glabraS. Car. & southward. Pine (white)Pinus strobusEastern U. S.Principal timber-tree of North America. Pine (yellow)Pinus mitisNorthern AmericaMedium, yellow. Building and various. Plane (occidental)Platanus occidentalisNorth AmericaMedium; called buttonwood and sycamore. Bedsteads, musical instruments, etc. Plane (Oriental）Platanus orientalisAsiaMedium. Joinery, cabinet-work, turn
Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 5: (search)
Those principles which constitute the individuality of the Northern character, which render it staunch, strong, and seaworthy, which bind it together as with iron, are drawn out one by one, like the bolts from the ill-fated vessel; and out of the miserable, loosened fragments is formed that human anomaly,--a Northern man with Southern principles. Such a man is no true son of Massachusetts. This, says Mr. Henry Wilson in his invaluable History of the rise and fall of the slave power in America, was the first public participation of M. Sumner in that great conflict in which he subsequently bore a part so important and honorable. His speech and the resolutions from his pen were based on the fixed and indestructible principles of justice, humanity, and moral rectitude. Stating that the object of the meeting was to strengthen the hearts and hands of those opposed to the admission of Texas into the family of States, and referring to the voices of discouragement they heard, that all
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1, Chapter 9: (search)
them; and the Navy naturally hate to have any thing making odd sizes of their shot. Captain Wise says he has received no answer to a letter offering you any quantity of eleven-inch guns at cost. I suggest answering him with thanks, and keeping the offer open until you can ascertain whether the cost of spindle of guns, the right weight, will be as much as that of the gulls. Mr. Forbes then gives, at considerable length, an interesting account of the different kinds of heavy ordnance in America and in England, and of the experiments made for their improvement; one experiment alone having cost the English Government seven millions pounds sterling. He considered the Dahlgren and Rodman patents both good, and reliable for most purposes. But in these times, he said, without undervaluing them, I would prove all things, and hold fast to that which is good. Mr. Forbes concludes his letter by saying,— Nothing from Colonel Lowell's cavalry since yesterday morning, when they starte
Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches, Lowell (search)
the man afterwards reduced his demand to a reasonable figure Lowell would not go with him at all, and told him that such practices made Americans dislike the Italian people. It is to be feared that a strange Italian might fare just as badly in America. Readers of Lowell's Fireside travels will have noticed that the first of them is addressed to the Edelmann Story in Rome. The true translation of this expression is Nobleman Story; that is, William W. Story, the sculptor, who modelled the r dogmatism. Lowell, if not a transcendentalist, was always an idealist, and he knew that ideality was as necessary to Cromwell and Canning as it was to Shakespeare and Scott. He was certainly more popular in England than he had ever been in America, and he openly admitted that he disliked to resign his position. Professor Child said, in 1882: Lowell's conversation is witty, with a basis of literary cramming; and that seems to be what the English like. He went to twenty-nine dinner parti
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Olde Cambridge, Chapter 2: old Cambridge in three literary epochs (search)
arlyle with his impetuous vigor and by what Holmes called the Macaulay-flowers of literature. These influences in England, with the rise of Emerson and Parker in America, brought a distinct change, and Lowell eminently contributed his share when Professor Bowen, editing the North American, complained of his articles as being too bowy opinions which lay behind the movement called Transcendentalism, there can be no doubt that, so far as literature went, it was the beginning of a new era for America. In the very first number of the Dial, upon its first page Emerson announced it as its primary aim to make new demands on literature ; and it is worth noticing tprobable that we shall use a trifle larger type than our New York contemporary. Poetry, of course, we pay for according to value. There are not above six men in America (known to me) to whom I would pay anything for poetry. There is no medium; it is good or it is good-for-nothing. Lowell I esteem most; after him Whittier (the l
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Olde Cambridge, Chapter 4: Longfellow (search)
intimate friends and both of which met with a good deal of criticism, especially in respect of metre, after their publication. Their success was the more remarkable, as poems on Indian subjects had up to that time been uniformly unsuccessful in America, and those on historical themes had not fared much better. It was, however, his short poems which first made him known, and these derived strength from their simplicity and from being near to the popular heart. It has latterly been somewhat thedicted by his contemporaries. He undoubtedly shared with Carlyle, whose miscellaneous essays were first collected and edited during this period by Charles Stearns Wheeler, another Cambridge instructor, the function of interpreting Germany to America. This he did first in Hyperion, and continued to do in his Poets and poetry of Europe and his numerous translations. Few men, I suspect, have ever surpassed him as what may be called natural translators, proving it possible to produce versions
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Olde Cambridge, Chapter 5: Lowell (search)
longed distinctly to the colonial type, and six out of the seven have, as has been seen, some literary associations. It would be impossible to find elsewhere in America, and hard to select anywhere, a series of houses in this respect so notable. Mrs. Oliver was sister to Vassall, and Mrs. Vassall was sister to Oliver. The deceaetters nor even those friendships and affections which were to him as the air he breathed. Yet it is quite certain that this attitude was not quite understood in America, for various reasons not now worth analyzing, chief of which was the difficult position in which he was placed on account of Fenianism and from the difficulty of dear Granville, the censure proceeding from those who did not know how much more common is this familiar form of address, among social equals, in England than in America. In the same way the ordinary diplomatic courtesies such as He was good enough to say, or I am bound to take for granted, or, My friend, if I may be permitted to
Ernest Crosby, Garrison the non-resistant, Chapter 8: Garrison the non-resistant (search)
seems to give a new and loftier power to a man. No, the strenuous man is not the soldier on horseback with saber drawn, but rather the man with folded arms who sees a new truth and utters it regardless of consequences. No one can injure the man who refuses to be hurt. You may kill him but you cannot touch the man in him. In another place I have given some examples Tolstoy and his message, Funk & Wagnalls Company, New York. of the power and influence of such men even upon the savages of America and Africa. De Quincey in one of his articles on Walking Stewart, the eccentric traveller, quotes the latter to the following effect: It was generally supposed, he said, that the civilized traveller among savages might lay his account with meeting unprovoked violence, except in so far as he carried arms for his protection. Now he had found it by much the safer plan to carry no arms. The most influential men in history have eschewed physical force as an instrument. What man of all has
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 2, Chapter 11: the Rotunda. (search)
l Sherman takes no pains to hide his views. Vice-President Wilson opposes his official superior, and some of the leading journals are demanding that Grant shall retire from the White House, leaving his powers in Wilson's hands. More than all else, Hamilton Fish declares that if the President sustains Sheridan and justifies Durell and Packard, he will resign his post as Secretary of State. This menace tells. Fish is not only the ablest man in Grant's Cabinet, but one of the ablest men in America. Bristow, Secretary of the Treasury, takes the same line as Fish. Without these gentlemen, the President's Cabinet could not stand a week; and if his Cabinet falls, who knows what else may fall? The Governors of powerful States are talking in an ominous way. A State has disappeared, says Governor Alien to the people of Ohio; a sovereign State of this Union has no existence this night. A sovereign State! The President thinks he put an end to all that babble about sovereign States on t
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 2, Chapter 18: at Washington. (search)
in Louisiana, we meet Pinchback in the lobby. Cheated, sah, he bawls at me; cheated, sah. The Senators reject my papers! It is all dat Kellogg, sah! Has not Governor Kellogg signed your papers properly? Gubnor Kellogg! He gubnor! Dat Kellogg is a rascal, sah. He sign de papers all right; put big seal all right; den he write a letter underground, for de Republicans not to vote. He want to come hisself. He neber stay in New Orleans. Sah, Kellogg is de greatest big rascal in America! Pinch seems put out, the Senator remarks, but we must draw the line somewhere. A sound party man, I draw a line at the penitentiary. It may seem singular, but I object to sitting on the next chair to a Senator who has recently come out of jail. Emerging from the hall, and standing on the marble terrace looking over the Potomac towards the mountains of Virginia, I venture to say: A White Revival seems to be setting in, not only in the South, but in the North and West. Have you Rep
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