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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 2 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 26. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 2 0 Browse Search
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 3. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier) 2 0 Browse Search
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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), B. (search)
the action of the weight, and guides the advanced edge of the bat around the cylinder. See Cottoncleaner. Bat′ting-staff. An implement used by laundresses for beating linen in washing. Batti-tu′ra. The scales which fly off from metals while under the hammer. Battle-axes. Bat′tle-axe. This military weapon is of very remote antiquity, being made of stone before the discovery of metals. (See axe.) It was used by the Sacae, who formed a part of the forces of Xerxes. Brennus, the Gallic king, who captured Rome, was armed with a battle-axe, and in remote ages it appears to have been considered peculiarly as the weapon of an uncivilized people. It was, however, extensively employed during the Middle Ages, and was in use as late as the sixteenth century, when attempts were made to improve it by attaching a pistol to the handle. a, battle-axe from Dr. Abbott's collection of Egyptian antiquities in New York; made of bronze, firmly bound to its original handle by<
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 26. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The Confederate cause and its defenders. (search)
ations: he rather seeks to know how the apparently unimportant action of an insignificant city, provoked the great Persian invasion. His question is, not whether Athens or Sparta bred the better soldier, but he searches the records to find out the causes of the Peloponnesian war. He does not consider whether Vercingetorix, standing a captive in the presence of Caesar, was, after all, the nobler leader; nor whether Attila at Chalons was a greater general than Aetius, nor why the sword of Brennus turned the scale on that fateful day at Rome. He is more concerned to know why the Roman legions marched so far, and why the world threw off the imperial yoke. The causes of wars test yet more deeply than conduct in the field, the characters of peoples, indicate yet more surely what hopes of peace or fears of war lie in the future, to which we are advancing. The foregoing considerations press on no people on earth more heavily than on those of the Southern States of this country. The
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 3. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Anti-Slavery Poems (search)
An unctuous unconcern of all Which nice folks call dishonor! A pleasant print to peddle out In lands of rice and cotton; The model of that face in dough Would make the artist's fortune. For Fame to thee has come unsought, While others vainly woo her, In proof how mean a thing can make A great man of its doer. To whom shall men thyself compare, Since common models fail 'em, Save classic goose of ancient Rome, Or sacred ass of Balaam? The gabble of that wakeful goose Saved Rome from sack of Brennus; The braying of the prophet's ass Betrayed the angel's menace! So when Guy Fawkes, in petticoats, And azure-tinted hose on, Was twisting from thy love-lorn sheets The slow-match of explosion— An earthquake blast that would have tossed The Union as a feather, Thy instinct saved a perilled land And perilled purse together. Just think of Carolina's sage Sent whirling like a Dervis, Of Quattlebum in middle air Performing strange drill-service! ,Doomed like Assyria's lord of old, Who fell bef
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 7. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Zzz Missing head (search)
he best way of settling the Irish question; and that the enslavement and forcible transportation of her poor, to labor under armed taskmasters in the Colonies, is the only rightful and proper remedy for the political and social evils of England. In the Discourse on Negro Slavery we see this devilish philosophy in full bloom. The gods, he tells us, are with the strong. Might has a divine right to rule,—blessed are the crafty of brain and strong of hand! Weakness is crime. Vae victis as Brennus said when he threw his sword into the scale,—Woe to the conquered! The negro is weaker in intellect than his born lord, the white man, and has no right to choose his own vocation. Let the latter do it for him, and,if need be, return to the beneficent whip. On the side of the oppressor there is power; let him use it without mercy, and hold flesh and blood to the grindstone with unrelenting rigor. Humanity is squeamishness; pity for the suffering mere rose-pink sentimentalism, maudlin and