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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Burke, Edmund, 1730-1797 (search)
m may unite in another. When we cannot give the benefit as we would wish, let us not refuse it altogether. If we cannot give the principle, let us find a substitute. But how? Where? What substitute? Fortunately, I am not obliged for the ways and means of this substitute to tax my own unproductive invention. I am not even obliged to go to the rich treasury of the fertile framers of imaginary commonwealths: not to the Republic of Plato; not to the Utopia of More; not to the Oceana of Harrington. It is before me, it is at my feet, and the rude swain treads daily on it with his clouted shoon. I only wish you to recognize, for the theory, the ancient constitutional policy of tills kingdom with regard to representation, as that policy has been declared in acts of Parliament; and, as to the practice, to return to that mode which an uniform experience has marked out to you, as best; and in which you walked with security, advantage, and honour, until the year 1763. My resolutions,
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Weather Bureau. (search)
em of international co-operative simultaneous weather observation, proposed by General Myer at the congress of meteorologists convened at Vienna, is begun......September, 1873 All Smithsonian weather observers transferred to the signal service at the instance of Prof. Joseph Henry......Feb. 2, 1874 Meteorological reports of army post surgeons ordered by the surgeon-general to be sent to the chief signal office......June 19, 1874 Daily publication of Bulletin of international simultaneous meteorological observations of the Northern Hemisphere begun at Washington......Jan. 1, 1875 Publication of graphic synoptic International weather maps of simultaneous observations begun by General Myer......July 1, 1878 Brig.-Gen. W. B. Hazen appointed chief signal officer......Dec. 6, 1880 Gen. A. W. Greely appointed chief signal officer......March 3, 1887 Weather bureau transferred to the Department of Agriculture, and Prof. Mark W. Harrington appointed chief......June 30, 1891
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Weather signals. (search)
s a part of the signal service of the United States army. The Fifty-first Congress passed an act providing that while the signal service should remain as a branch of the army, the forecasting of the weather should become one of the duties of the Agricultural Department and be conducted by a special bureau. This law went into effect on July 1, 1891, and all the duties connected with the system of weather signals were transferred to the new bureau. The first chief of the bureau was Prof. Mark W. Harrington, of Michigan. Simultaneous weather reports from simultaneous observations, taken at different places are transmitted to the bureau at Washington. Three of these simultaneous reports are made in each twenty-four hours, at intervals of eight hours; and warnings are given by signals, maps, bulletins, and official despatches, furnished by the bureau, three times a day, to nearly all the newspapers in the land. So thoroughly is this work done, by means of the telegraph, the perfect or
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Westminster Abbey. (search)
, and it required a century to elapse before England ventured on a public recognition of his supreme greatness. When Dr. Smalridge wrote for the statue of John Philips the ridiculous eulogy that he was Uni Miltono Secundus, primoque poene par, the line was erased by the narrow prejudice of Bishop Sprat, who would not have the walls of the abbey polluted by the name of the author of Paradise lost, because that poet had written the Defensio Populi Anglicani, and been a friend of Cromwell, Harrington, and Vane. In 1737 the monument to Milton was erected by Auditor Benson. The admission of this monument here, a century and a half ago, is one more sign that the Revolution did not wholly fail even in England, and that there were Monument to Sir Peter Warren—Westminster Abbey. those who even then revered the names of Cromwell and Milton. But the principles of that Revolution, never wholly forgotten by Englishmen, were completely triumphant in America. The colonists carried to America