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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
Of the second description are the dikes of Holland and of France. These are sea-walls, and belo, near Rotterdam, Holland. E, polder bank, Holland. F, Havre sea-wall. If the entire emban to wage with the waters for its existence as Holland. Many thousands of square miles of tillable tensively used in the banks of the polders of Holland. It consists of a double row of sheetpiling into England by Admiral Schank, probably from Holland, and was first applied to a government explorocomotive1829 DutchSteamboat ( Curacoa, from Holland to West Indies）1829 NasmythEnglishSteam-hammuracoa, in 1829, made several voyages between Holland and the West Indies. The screw-propeller, ving-machine. In 1698, J. Van der Mey, in Holland, had printed a quarto Bible and some other boneath the surface of the water. Drebbel of Holland constructed for James I. a vessel which was mwhere it crosses the Yssel, near Westervoort, Holland. Fig. 6123 is a view of the swing sectio[1 more...]
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), T. (search)
stan3045 1857Ceylon to Hindostan3040 1858*Italy to Sicily840 1858England to Holland12927 1858*England to Emden, Germany28028 1858*Ireland to Newfoundland2,0362,ies of Europe. The best material is the marsh reeds of Eastern England and of Holland. The reeds are cut in the winter, made into sheaves, dried and stacked. Withe thumb, as the sailor's thimble still is. It was introduced into England from Holland in 1605, by John Lofting, who manufactured them at Islington. Thimbles of bthe individual yarns. Thread of fine quality was imported into England from Holland and Flanders for many centuries. The thread for making the Honiton (Devonshirmself made designs for the paintings in terra invitriata. The art spread to Holland, and long abode there. Delft was its headquarters; and the Dutch tiles, whichTrip′let. （Optics.) An arrangement of lenses in a microscope, invented by Holland. In Wollaston's doublet two plane concave lenses were used, but in Holland'
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), W. (search)
and carbonic-acid gas. List of United States Patents for White-Lead. No.Name and Date. –Holland, Mar. 18, 1836. –Clark, Reissued. Extended. Dec. 4, 1828. 95.Richards, Dec. 2, 1836. 160.Phillips, April 17, 1837. 264.Ripley, July 11, 1837. 767.Cumberland, June 7, 1838. 994.Holland, Nov. 3, 1838. 1,115.Button et al., April 10, 1839. 1,231.Clark, July 11, 1839. 1,424.Clark, Donomically effecttive in lifting to a hight above the center of the axle. See scoop-wheel. Holland is said to have 12,000 windmills in operation, averaging eight horse-power each. The annual coThe introduction of sulphite of soda for this purpose is modern. William, Count of Hennegan, Holland, and Zealand, prohibited the adulteration of wine in 1327, the first prohibition of the kind reeves, and as it falls from one to another. We derive it from Britain, which obtained it from Holland in 1710. It was introduced into Scotland by Meikle, the father of that Meikle who invented thr
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1, Chapter 1: (search)
structed to use every effort to prevent the adoption of the Crittenden Compromise, or any similar proposition, by the Convention now in session in Washington. Passed,—yeas 112, nays 27; and the Governor was requested to forward a copy to each of the commissioners. After the adjournment of the House, the members retained their seats, and the Clerk read the following communication:— Extract from the Proceedings of the House of Representatives of South Carolina, Jan. 23, 1861. Mr. Holland offered the following, which were unanimously adopted:— Whereas a certain Mr. Tyler, of Boston, has introduced a resolution in the Massachusetts Legislature, that, in view of the great suffering in South Carolina, the immediate consequence of the citizens of that State acting under a mistaken idea of their rights and obligations, and in view of the abundance of this Commonwealth, a sum be appropriated from the State treasury, to be invested in provisions and stores for the relief of o<
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Book 1: he keepeth the sheep. (search)
he revolutionary army, and was intrusted with the command who had in charge a large portion of the prisoners comprising Burgoyne's army: thus proving that John Brown inherits his military spirit through a patriotic ancestry. A very brief record of John Brown's maternal ancestry, (all that it is now possible to write,) will prove that his descent was as honorable and patriotic by his --mother's family, as from Peter Brown, the Puritan of the Mayflower. Peter Miles was an emigrant from Holland, who settled at Bloomfield, Connecticut, near the confines of Windsor Plain. He had seven sons, was a tailor by trade, and died in 1754, at the age of eighty-eight. Of these seven sons, Jedediah graduated at Yale College in 1722, and was a clergyman and theological author of considerable note. Pelatiah was a useful citizen, and an able attorney at law. John was the father of two clergymen. Peter had a numerous offspring, one of whom was the first minister of East Granby. Of two othe
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 1: the child and his ancestors. (search)
he revolutionary army, and was intrusted with the command who had in charge a large portion of the prisoners comprising Burgoyne's army: thus proving that John Brown inherits his military spirit through a patriotic ancestry. A very brief record of John Brown's maternal ancestry, (all that it is now possible to write,) will prove that his descent was as honorable and patriotic by his --mother's family, as from Peter Brown, the Puritan of the Mayflower. Peter Miles was an emigrant from Holland, who settled at Bloomfield, Connecticut, near the confines of Windsor Plain. He had seven sons, was a tailor by trade, and died in 1754, at the age of eighty-eight. Of these seven sons, Jedediah graduated at Yale College in 1722, and was a clergyman and theological author of considerable note. Pelatiah was a useful citizen, and an able attorney at law. John was the father of two clergymen. Peter had a numerous offspring, one of whom was the first minister of East Granby. Of two othe
L. P. Brockett, Women's work in the civil war: a record of heroism, patriotism and patience, chapter 8 (search)
trated on her arrival in Paris where she lay three weeks ill, before being able to proceed by railroad to Lucerne, Switzerland, and rejoin her sister who had been some months in Europe, and who, with her family, were to be the traveling companions of Mrs. Tyler. Arrived at Lucerne, she was again prostrated by chills and fever, and only recovered after removal to the dryer climate of Berlin. The next year she was again ill with the same disease after a sojourn among the dykes and canals of Holland. Mrs. Tyler spent about eighteen months in Europe, traveling over various parts of the Continent, and England, where she remained four or five months, returning to her native land in November, 1865, to find the desolating war which had raged here at the time of her departure at an end. Her health had been by this time entirely re-established, and she is happy in the belief that long years of usefulness yet remain to her. Ardent and fearless in her loyalty to her Government, Mrs. Tyle
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Book and heart: essays on literature and life, Chapter 10: Favorites of a day (search)
a merely literary ambition. The only absolutely impregnable attitude is in that fine invocation of the radical Proudhon, prefixed to his first work: Thou God who hast placed in my heart the sentiment of justice before my reason comprehended it, hear my ardent prayer.... May my memory perish, if humanity may but be free! --(Ah! perisse ma memoire et que l'humanite soit libre.） Oeuvres Completes;, I. 224. He who is thinking only of himself and of the royalty on his books must watch tremblingly over his own fame, and shudder at every adverse breath; he is like an actor, who hears his doom in every shrinkage of applause from the galleries. But the man whose thoughts are fixed on truth and right is better occupied; if he sees the torch carried onward, what matter who carries it? Still lives the song though Regnar dies ; and it will not trouble him though a generation of critics go to their graves, as Lady Holland said of Lady Cork, full of bitterness and good dinners. 18
Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders., Chapter 1: (search)
rn statesmanship. Mr. Calhoun's doctrines. nullification a Union-saving measure. its ingenuity and conservatism. Calhoun's profound statesmanship. injustice to his memory. how the South has been injured by false party names There is nothing of political philosophy more plainly taught in history than the limited value of the Federal principle. It had been experimented upon in various ages of the world — in the Amphictyonic Council, in the Achaean league, in the United Provinces of Holland, in Mexico, in Central America, in Columbia, and in the Argentine republic; in all these instances the form of government established upon it had become extinct, or had passed into the alternative of consolidation or anarchy and disintegration. Indeed, it is plain enough that such a form of government is the resource only of small and weak communities; that it is essentially temporary in its nature; and that it has never been adopted by States which had approached a mature condition, and h
Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders., Chapter 7: (search)
Yankees would not fight; and so-called statesmen in the South expounded the doctrine that a commercial community, devoted to the pursuit of gain, could never aspire to martial prowess, and were unequal to great deeds of arms. But if these orators had considered the lessons of history they would have found that commercial communities were among the most pugnacious and ambitious and obstinate of belligerents, and might have traced the discovery through the annals of Carthage, Venice, Genoa, Holland, and England. Another idea was that the victory of the South was to be insured and expedited by the recognition of the new Government by the European Powers. Cotton, said the Charleston Mercury, would bring England to her knees. The idea was ludicrous enough that England and France would instinctively or readily fling themselves into a convulsion, which their great politicians saw was the most tremendous one of modern times. But the puerile argument, which even President Davis did not
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