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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), G. (search)
6. It is now difficult to sift the error from the truth, but it is said that in the recipe of Bacon the ingredients saltpeter and sulphur were given, and that the charcoal was stated anagrammatically, by the transposition of the letters of the words, curbonum pulvere; which he wrote Lura nope cum ubre. This looks as though he considered it a secret; not necessarily his invention, but a dangerous compound not adapted for the use of the vulgar. Michael Schwartz, a Cordelier monk, of Goslar, in Germany, about A. D. 1320, seems to have combined the three ingredients, and has been credited with the discovery. A commemorative statue of Schwartz was erected in 1853, at Freiburg. Artillery was known in France in 1345. In 1356, the city of Nuremberg purchased gunpowder and cannon. The same year Louvain employed thirty cannon at the battle of Santfliet against the Flemings. In 1361, a fire broke out at Lubec from the careless use of gunpowder. In 1363, the Hanse towns used g
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), T. (search)
: copper, 11; zinc, 1. Arsenic is added to make white tombak. There are a number of other varieties, the constituents and proportions of some of which are given:— Copper.Zinc.Lead.Tin. Tombak for making gilt articles82181.53 Tombak for making gilt articles821831 Tombak for making gilt articles82.317.5..0.2 French tombak for sword-handles, etc.8017..3 Yellow tombak of Paris, for gilt ornaments85.314.7.... Tombak for the same purpose, from Hanover8614.... Tombak of the Okar, near Goslar, in the Hartz8515..Trace. Chrysochalk907.91.6.. Red tombak, from Paris928.... Red tombak, from Vienna97.82.2.... Tom′pi-on. (From a French word meaning a plug or stopper.) 1. （Ordnance.) a. A plug fitted to the bore of a gun at the muzzle, to protect it from injury by the weather. b. The iron bottom of a charge of grape-shot. 2. (Lithography.) The inking-pad of the lithographic printer. Tompon. 3. (Music.) The plug in a flute or organ-pipe, which is adjusted toward<
James Russell Lowell, Among my books, Wordsworth. (search)
o raise people up to his own level, not to descend to theirs,—memorable words, the more memorable that a literary life of sixty years was in keeping with them. It would be instructive to know what were Wordsworth's studies during his winter in Goslar. De Quincey's statement is mere conjecture. It may be guessed fairly enough that he would seek an entrance to the German language by the easy path of the ballad, a course likely to confirm him in his theories as to the language of poetry. The more imaginative, may have been suggested by Burger's Pfarrer's Tochter von Taubenhain. The little grave drei Spannen lang, in its conscientious measurement, certainly recalls a famous couplet in the English poem. After spending the winter at Goslar, Wordsworth and his sister returned to England in the spring of 1799, and settled at Grasmere in Westmoreland. In 1800, the first edition of the Lyrical Ballads being exhausted, it was republished with the addition of another volume, Mr. Longman
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 3: (search)
, the late Baron von Watzdorf, gave me copies of the letter of Count Schaumburg-Lippe to the duke, 26 Nov., 1777; the minute of the consultation of the duke with his ministers; the answer of Carl August, 3 Dec., 1777, and also of the earlier papers. The signature of Goethe, the youngest minister of Chap. III.} Weimar, is wanting to the draft, for he was absent on a winter trip to the Hartz Mountains; but that his heart was with his colleagues appears from his writing simultaneously from Goslar: How am I again brought to love that class of men which is called the lower class, but which assuredly for God is the highest! In them moderation, contentment, straightforwardness, patience, endurance, all the virtues, meet together. Goethe's letters, 4 Dec., 1777. In like manner, when, in 1775, an overture from England reached Frederic Augustus, the young elector of Saxony, Count Sacken, his minister, promptly reported his decision: The thoughts of sending a part of his army to the