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George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 34 0 Browse Search
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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.) 16 0 Browse Search
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Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War. 12 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: May 16, 1862., [Electronic resource] 8 0 Browse Search
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters 6 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition. 6 0 Browse Search
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life 6 0 Browse Search
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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), B. (search)
, wrote in the second century B. C. The dictionary Si-wun was compiled about 148 B. C. The Spanish Saracens compiled dictionaries, lexions, encyclopedias, and pharmacopoeias. The Historical Dictionary of Sciences of Mohammed lbu Abdallah, of Granada, is a notable instance. Avicenna also wrote a large number of works, among them an Encyclopedia of Human Knowledge, in twenty volumes. A manuscript copy of the Evangelists, the book on which the English kings, from Henry I. to Edward VI., to to St. Nicholas, the patron of sailors and those whose business is upon the waters, remained long after the other arches had been swept away by the storms of centuries. Benezet's tomb was in the crypt. About 1300, Issim, the Moorish king of Granada, erected a fine bridge at Cordova, across the Guadalquiver. Perronet mentions a stone bridge of three arches, one of which had a span of 159 feet 9 inches, at Verona, erected in 1354. Also a bridge with a stone arch 183.8 feet span, 70.6 fee
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), G. (search)
mother of Shah Abbas, about 1550, has a covering of green glazed tiles on the front of the principal gateway. The Alhambra, a Moorish palace and fortress near Granada, was founded by Mohammed I. of Granada about 1253. Some of the rooms are ornamented by glazed tiles. Coffins of green glazed pottery are found at Warka in MesGranada about 1253. Some of the rooms are ornamented by glazed tiles. Coffins of green glazed pottery are found at Warka in Mesopotamia, and are ascribed by Rawlinson to the period of the Parthian occupation of that country. This is a startling supposition. The style of ornamentation and the figures stamped upon them forbid the supposition that they were imported from China, and yet this single fact of glazed pottery in that place at that time is almosd, pulvis nitratus, is mentioned in an Arabic writing in the Escurial collection, datiing about 1249. The Moors used it in Spain in 1312, and in 1331 the king of Granada battered Alicant with iron bullets, discharged by fire from machines. In 1342 – 43, the Moorish garrison of Algesiras defended themselves against Alonzo XI., kin
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), P. (search)
idols, or of limbs, plants, etc., for votive offerings. The Peruvians use tallow, which is spread on while the ware is hot, and becomes partially carbonized. The Etruscan ware has a similar appearance. In Italy and Spain, ancient and modern, wine-jars are rubbed with wax to render them impervious to liquids. The art of making glazed pottery originated with the Chinese, and passed from thence to India, and from thence successively to Arabia, Spain, Italy, Holland. In the Alhambra of Granada some of the rooms are ornamented with glazed tiles. The tomb of Sultan Mahommed Khoda-Bendeh, at Sultanieh in Persia, was built in the thirteenth century, and has green enameled tiles on the outside and blue within. The painted mosque of Gour, in India, built in 1475, derives its name from the number of glazed tiles with which it is ornamented. The Caravanserai of Mayar, near Ispahan, built by the mother of Shah Abbas, about 1550, has a covering of green glazed tiles on the front of the
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), T. (search)
warrior episode, in Moore's Paradise and the Peri. His conquest, wherein, as Moore says, he Choked up with the glittering wrecks Of golden shrines the sacred waters, occurred A. D. 1000, about the time that Gerbert of Auvergne, the schoolmaster of Rheims, was introducing the civilization of the Spanish Saracens into France and Italy. The passion for glazed tiles extended from India and Ispahan to Spain, from the thirteenth to the sixteenth centuries. The palace of the Alhambra at Granada, the residence of the Moorish kings, was built in 1280, and many of the rooms are ornamented with glazed tiles. The tomb of Sultan Mohammed Khoda-Bendeh, at Sultanich in Persia, was also built in the thirteenth century, and is ornamented on the cupola and minarets with a green glazed tile, and on the architrave with a dark blue tile. The painted mosque of Gour, in India, now in ruins, was built in 1475, and derives its name from the profusion of glazed tiles which adorned it. In Is