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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.) 6 0 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Engineering. (search)
nufacture of soda, bleaching powders, aniline dyes, and other products of the distillation of coal, also coal-oil from petroleum, acetylene gas, celluloid, rubber goods in all their numerous varieties, high explosives, cement, artificial manures, artificial ice, beet-sugar, and even beer may now be included. The value of our mechanical and chemical products is great, but it is surpassed by that of food products. If these did not keep pace with the increase of population, the theories of Malthus would be true—but he never saw a modern reaper. The steam-plough was invented in England some fifty years since, but the great use of agricultural machinery dates from our Civil War, when so many men were taken from agriculture. It became necessary to fill their places with machinery. Without tracing the steps which have led to it, we may say that the common type is what is called the binder, and is a machine drawn chiefly by animals, and in some cases by a field locomotive. It cut
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Chapter 18: literary traits. (search)
him as the master, but the light use of a trivial phrase is not to be set against her distinct disclaimer, as just quoted. She was indeed too omnivorous a reader, too ardent and fertile a thinker, to go through the successive bondages by which many fine minds — especially the minds of women — work their way to freedom. Miss Martineau, for instance, with all her native vigor, was always following with implicit confidence some particular guide or model; in early life her brother James, then Malthus, then Garrison, then Comte, then even Atkinson; but in Margaret Fuller's case, though there were many friendships, there was no personal and controlling ruler. Emerson came the nearest to this, and yet we see by her letters how frankly she could criticise even him. Her danger lay in the direction of originality, not of imitation ; of too much divergence, not too much concentration. Coming in contact, as she did, with some of the strongest men of her time; first the Boston Transcendentalis
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 13: England.—June, 1838, to March, 1839.—Age, 27-28. (search)
he most agreeable and flattering to myself. Sumner's fancy for collecting autographs was developed at this period. He was supplied with many by Kenyon, Morpeth, Sir David Brewster, Hayward, Talfourd, Brown, Miss Martineau, and the Montagus. These, together with others, some rare and costly, which he purchased late in life, and notes written to himself by distinguished persons, he bequeathed to Harvard College. Kenyon gave him those of Southey, Faraday, Landor, Miss Mitford, Coleridge, Malthus, and Thomas Campbell. Sumner's success in English society was due to the same characteristics which had secured for him at home strongly attached friends, as well among his seniors as among persons of his own age. He had the genuineness and enthusiasm which always charm, alike in the oldest and the newest society. His rare intelligence on all topics most interesting to Englishmen,— their history, politics, law, and literature, and the personal life of their authors and public men,—was
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)
st work on paper currency, referred to above, Franklin was influenced by Petty in selecting labour, rather than silver, as the best measure of value. In his Observations concerning the increase of mankind (1751) he shows himself a forerunner of Malthus, and incidentally points out why wages must continue to be high in a country where there is an abundance of free land. In The interest of great Britain considered with regard to her colonies and the acquisition of Canada and Guadaloupe (1760) hant was Daniel Raymond's The elements of political economy (1820), which disclosed an acquaintance with the English writers and which laid the foundations for the defence of the protective system, afterwards elaborated by List. The influence of Malthus is perceptible in A. H. Everett's New ideas on population (1823), in which the invincibly optimistic attitude of youthful America is revealed. The chief lines of discussion were therefore largely a continuation of the preceding period. The i
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)
erfly, 281, 282 Madison, James, 227, 396, 453 Madrid, M., 593 Madrigals and catches, 52 Maeterlinck, 50, 285 Maggie a girl of the streets, 92 Maggie Pepper, 287 Magnalia Christi Americana, 73, 392 Mahaffy, 239, 466 Mahan, Alfred Thayer, 194, 196-7, 200, 229 Mahn, C. A. F., 477 Mahoney, D. A., 349 Mai Kamashmalon, 602 Mail and express, 44 Major, Charles, 91, 288 Major Barbara, 294 Making of an American, the, 420 Mallarme, 50 Malory, 6, 17, 18 Malthus, 428, 431 Malthusianism and capitalism, 601 Man, the, 437 Man and nature, 473 Manatt, Irving, 468 Man from home, the, 288 Manly, William Lewis, 150 Mann, Horace, 404, 408, 409, 410 Manners, J. Hartley, 295 Mansfield, Richard, 278, 280, 283 Mansions of England, the, 100 Man's woman, a, 93 Man's World, a, 295 Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg, the, 14 Manual of political economy (Cooper, T.), 433 Manual of political economy, a (Smith, E. P.), 436 Manuscript fo