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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 5 1 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 4 0 Browse Search
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 4 0 Browse Search
Margaret Fuller, Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (ed. W. H. Channing) 4 0 Browse Search
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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 2 0 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Steam navigation. (search)
Steam navigation. The value of steam in navigation was demonstrated by Denys Papin in a model steamboat on the Fulda, near Cassel, in 1707. This was soon destroyed by a mob of boatmen. Jonathan Hulls, of London, England, set forth the idea in a patent obtained in 1736. Bernouilli experimented with a steamboat, using artificial fins, and Genevois with one using the duck's-foot propeller, in 1757. In 1775 M. Perier navigated the Seine with a small steamboat, and in 1783 Claude, Comte de Jouffroy, constructed an engine which propelled a boat on the Saone. Immediately after the close of the Revolutionary War, James Rumsey, of Maryland, propelled a vessel by steam on the Potomac River, a fact certified to by Washington. In 1785 an association was formed to aid him, which was called the Rumsey Society, of which Benjamin Franklin was president. Nothing came of it. The next year John Fitch, a native of Connecticut, exhibited a boat on the Delaware propelled by steam; and in 1788
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
lishExpansion engine1778 WattEnglishArrangement of connecting-rod, crank, and fly-wheel1780 WattEnglishDouble engine1781 WattEnglishSun and planet motion1781 JouffroyFrenchSteamboat (Suone）1781 RumseyAmericanSteamboat (hydraulic propeller, Potomac）1782 WattEnglishSteam-driven tilt-hammer1783 EvansAmericanSteam-carriage1783 g a kind of artificial fin, and the latter the duck's-foot propeller. In 1775 we are informed that M. Perier navigated a small steamboat on the Seine. Marquis de Jouffroy's mode of propelling boats. In 1781 the Marquis Jouffroy constructed and ran a steamboat on the Saone Fig. 5606 shows the peculiar features of the enginulton. Perhaps in the fullness of the meed of praise the claims of others have been not fully regarded. He had the benefit of the previous experiences of Hulls, Jouffroy, Ramsey, Rumsey, Symington, Evans, and Fitch, and the choice of six different modes of propulsion, each of which had been used by one or other of his predecessor
John Harrison Wilson, The life of Charles Henry Dana, Chapter 2: education (search)
itual, and though the immediate reaction of the mind may be somewhat ultra, it is cheering to know that a genuine earnest action of some sort is in progress. Even old Harvard is feeling it. Locke is already laid aside, or the same thing as laid aside. Paley is about to suffer the same fate, and what is better perhaps than the inculcation of any positive doctrine, a course of study in the History of Philosophy is to be introduced and carried on with the study of Locke and Cousin, Paley and Jouffroy. Though it may be vain to expect a university as far advanced as the age, still I hope to see old Harvard not very far behind. I attend Mr. Emerson's lectures only; they are without dispute very fine, though perhaps they might be better without some of his peculiarities. Their great merit appears to me to be their suggestive character; they make me think. Thinking you would like to know something certain about Spinoza, I send you Mr. Ripley's last pamphlet which is devoted to the ex
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 8: transcendentalism (search)
est thus aroused was fostered by the coming to Harvard a few years later, as instructor in German, of Charles T. Follen, a political exile. From about this time, some direct knowledge of Kant, Fichte, and Schelling, of Schleiermacher, of Goethe and Schiller — of Goethe probably more than of any other German writer-gradually began to make its way into New England, while the indirect German influence was even greater, coming in part through France in the works of Madame de Stael, Cousin, and Jouffroy, but much more significantly through England, in subtle form in the poetry of Wordsworth, more openly in the writings of Coleridge, There is practically no question that of all these influences the works of Coleridge stand first in importance, and it is due to this fact that New England transcendentalism, in so far as it is a philosophy, bears a closer resemblance to the metaphysical system of Schelling (whose influence on Coleridge is well known) than to that of any other thinker. and,
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Book III (continued) (search)
n in their day. This movement of intellectual liberalism was almost completely annihilated in the greater portion of the country by the evangelical or revivalist movement. The triumph of revivalism was rendered easier by the weakly organized intellectual life and the economic bankruptcy of the older Southern aristocracy, as reflected in the financial difficulties which embarrassed Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe in their old age. The second French wave, the eclectic philosophy of Cousin and Jouffroy, was at bottom simply the Scotch realism of Reid and Stewart over again, with only slight traces of Schelling. With the organization of our graduate schools on German models, and with a large number of our teachers taking their doctors' degrees in Germany, Germanic terms and mannerisms gained an apparent ascendancy in our philosophic teachings and writings; but in its substance, philosophy in America has followed the modes prevailing in Great Britain. The first serious attempt to intro
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index (search)
el, 353, 475, 477, 487, 542, 562 Johnson, Samuel (the American), 394, 475 Johnson, Samuel, Jr., 475 Johnson, T. L., 365 Johnson, Sir, Wm., 613 Johnson, Theodore T., 145 Johnston, Mary, 91, 287, 550 Johnston, R. M., 86 John W. Audubon's Western journal 134 Jones, Henry Arthur, 279 Jones, Hugh, 386 Jones, Robert, 298 Jones, Sir, William, 446 Jonson, Ben, 126 Jordan, David Starr, 363 Joseph Freifeld, 582 Joseph II, 450 Josh Billings. See Shaw, H. W. Jouffroy, 227 Journal (Hannibal, Mo.), 2 Journal (N. Y.), 330 Journal of a March from Santa Fe; to San Diego 1846-47, The, 143 Journal of an exploring tour beyond the Rocky Mountains, a, 137 Journal of a trapper, the, 134 Journal of Commerce (N. Y.), 322 Journal of education, the, 411 Journal of philosophy, psychology, and scientific method, 263 Journal of speculative philosophy, the, 236, 238, 239 Journal of the Am.Oriental Society, 468 Journal of the meeting of th
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 7: (search)
roglies. Poor Thierry was in bed, suffering more than usual; but two or three friends were with him, and he showed how completely his spirits and animation are indomitable. At de Broglie's all was as brilliant as luxury, rank, and talent could make it. The contrast was striking, and not without its obvious meaning; yet both were interesting, and I enjoyed both. February 15.—A formal, luxurious, splendid dinner at Ternaux's, where were Jaubert, the eloquent and witty Doctrinaire leader; Jouffroy, the popular, liberal professor; Jomard, whose modesty and learning I admire more the oftener I see him; Santarem, a Portuguese nobleman, of the rare scholarship which is sometimes, though very seldom, found in his nation; and several others. I talked much with Santarem, and wish I were likely to see more of him, for he is a very extraordinary person; but he leaves Paris in a few days. February 17.—We spent the evening at the Delesserts', where we met Eynard, the mover of the Greek affa
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), chapter 30 (search)
y on, 378. Jeffrey, Francis (Lord}, 1.30, 42, 43-47, 280, II. 146, 147, 148, 150, 151, 154, 4 Jersey, Countess of, I. 138, 269, 296, 410, 11.466. Jewett, C. C., II. 304 note, 308, 810, 314. Johnson, Samuel, I. 53, 55; The Club II. 476, 478; life of, 492. Johnstone, Judge, I. 381. Joinville, Prince and Princess, H. 882. Jones, Commodore, I. 373. Jones, Mr., II. 65. Jordan, Baron von, I. 461, 478. Jomard, E. F., II. 117, 125, 133, 14L Jouberton, Anna, 1.183, H. 88. Jouffroy, II. 133. Jourdain, Camille, 1.255. Jouy, V. E. de, II. 108, 141. Julius. Dr., II. 260; letter to, 250. Jusuf, II. 133, 134, 137. K Kahlden, Baroness, I. 489. Kaltenbaeck, II. 2, 8. Kane, Mr., I 376. Kastner, Professor, I. 76, 77. Kean, Edmund, I. 67, 127. Keating, Dr., Oliver, 1.10. Keiblinger, librarian of Molk, II. 23. Kemble, Stephen, I. 291, 292. Kempt, Sir, James, II. 176. Kenney, Mr., I. 406. Kent, Duchess of, I. 435, 437. Kent, James, Chancellor,
Margaret Fuller, Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (ed. W. H. Channing), chapter 3 (search)
ain those of others. Frequently I felt pleasure and admiration, but more frequently disappointment, sometimes positive distaste. There are many topics treated of in this book of which I am not a judge; but I do pretend, even where I cannot criticize in detail, to have an opinion as to the general tone of thought. When Herschel writes his Introduction to Natural Philosophy, I cannot test all he says, but I cannot err about his fairness, his manliness, and wide range of knowledge. When Jouffroy writes his lectures, I am not conversant with all his topics of thought, but I can appreciate his lucid style and admirable method. When Webster speaks on the currency, I do not understand the subject, but I do understand his mode of treating it, and can see what a blaze of light streams from his torch. When Harriet Martineau writes about America, I often cannot test that rashness and inaccuracy of which I hear so much, but I can feel that they exist. A want of soundness, of habits of pa
Margaret Fuller, Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (ed. W. H. Channing), VI. Jamaica Plain. (search)
ubt about vigorous thought. But we shall manifest free action as far as it goes, and a high aim. It were much if a periodical could be kept open, not to accomplish any outward object, but merely to afford an avenue for what of liberal and calm thought might be originated among us, by the wants of individual minds. * * April 19, 1840.—Things go on pretty well, but doubt. less people will be disappointed, for they seem to be looking for the Gospel of Transcendentalism. It may prove as Jouffroy says it was with the successive French ministries: The public wants something positive, and seeing that such and such persons are excellent at fault-finding, it raises them to be rulers, when, lo! they have no noble and full Yea, to match their shrill and bold Nay, and so are pulled down again. Mr. Emerson knows best what he wants; but he has already said it in various ways. Yet, this experiment is well worth trying; hearts beat so high, they must be full of something, and here is a way