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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 7. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 2 0 Browse Search
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 7. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Book notices. (search)
ighed, the future historian will write Lee down as not only the greatest general which this country has ever produced, but one of the ablest commanders in all history. Some of General Taylor's pen portraits are very vivid, life-like and accurate. We have space for only his portrait of Stanton, of whom he says: A spy under Buchanan, a tyrant under Lincoln and a traitor to Johnson, this man was as cruel and crafty as Domitian. I never saw him. In the end, conscience, long dormant, came as Alecto, and he was not; and the temple of justice, on whose threshold he stood, escaped profanation. The Appletons have brought out the book in a style worthy of their reputation, and it will doubtless have a wide sale. Since the above notice was penned a telegram announces that General Taylor died in New York on the 12th of April. In his death a gallant soldier, an able commander, a brilliant writer and a genial, accomplished gentleman has passed from a wide circle of admiring, loving fri
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
dead-wood (see Fig. 3973). He constructed a boat of 10 tons burden, with an engine of 6 horse-power, which was tried on the Paddington Canal, the river Thames, and, the next year, along the coast. The Archimedes was constructed by the help of the Messrs. Rennie, in 1838. She was 155 feet long, 237 tons burden, 90 horse-power. The screws were 5 and 7 feet in diameter, the lengths 7 1/2 and 8 feet. In 1842, the Rattler was built, to determine the best proportions of the screw, and the Alecto was built on the same lines, and with paddle-wheels, to compare the modes of propulsion. The propeller was preferred, and soon had an important place in the British navy. Captain John Ericsson's English patent is dated July 13, 1836, for a propeller containing several blades or segments of a screw, the twist of which was determined in accordance with the principle now usually adopted. His propeller, the Francis B. Ogden, was tried in April, 1837, and in May of that year was used in towi
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 30: addresses before colleges and lyceums.—active interest in reforms.—friendships.—personal life.—1845-1850. (search)
tion from the same heart. I trust I may now congratulate you on the felicity, first of your selection of your subject, and secondly of its consummation in the delivery. . . . The pleasure with which I listened to your discourse was inspired far less by the success and all but universal acceptance and applause of the present moment than by the vista of the future which is opened to my view. Casting my eyes backward no further than the 4th of July of last year, when you set all the vipers of Alecto a-hissing by proclaiming the Christian law of universal peace and love, and then casting them forward, perhaps not much further, but beyond my own allotted time, I see you have a mission to perform. I look from Pisgah to the Promised Land; you must enter upon it. To the motto on my seal [Alteri soeculi] add Delenda est servitus. Letters of warm and enthusiastic approval came from friends, including W. H. Prescott and Chancellor Kent. Dr. Howe wrote:— I cannot say that I love you bet