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Henry Morton Stanley, Dorothy Stanley, The Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley, part 1.4, chapter 1.8 (search)
room in the house of Mrs. Williams. My increase of pay enabled me to secure a larger and more comfortable room; but, detesting change, I remained its occupant. My self-denial was compensated, however, by a fine surplus of dollars, with which I satisfied a growing desire for books. So far, all the story-books I had read, beyond the fragments found in School-readers, consisted of that thrilling romance about Enoch and his brothers, a novelette called First Footsteps in evil, Kaloolah, by Dr. Mayo, which I had found at Ffynnon Beuno, and Ivanhoe, in three volumes, at which I had furtively glanced as it lay open in my cousin's study at Brynford. Through the influence of cheap copies of standard books, millions of readers in America have been educated, at slight cost, in the best productions of English authors; and when these have been delegated to the second-hand bookstalls, it is wonderful what a library one can possess at a trifling expense. There was such a stall existing conve
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), chapter 4 (search)
a column of the enemy under General Holmes, which was forming on the River Road, with the intention of intercepting the trains, and drove them off in such confusion that they gave up any further attempt upon them. Toward the close of the fight General McCall, leading a force of the Pennsylvania Reserves, with the view to securing Randol's guns, rode forward on the New Market Road to reconnoitre, when, in the obscurity of the night, he fell into the hands of the Forty-seventh Virginia, Colonel Mayo, of Field's brigade, who, having been unable to hold Randol's guns, had fallen back to the New Market Road. General McCall having been captured, General Meade having been wounded, and General Seymour having become separated by the dispersal of his brigade from the rest of the division, Colonel Roberts, of the First Pennsylvania Reserves, was informed that he, as senior officer, was in command of the division. Colonel Roberts, accordingly, took command of it, and with the assistance of th
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), Index. (search)
rd C., I, 77. McPherson, James B., II, 183, 217. Macey, Brig.-Gen., II, 281. Mackall, Wm. W., I, 201, 258. Macomb, J. N., I, 209, 210, 221. Magaw, Capt., I, 357. Magilton, Albert L., I, 329. Mahone, Wm., I, 278. Malvern Hill, battle of, July 1, 1862, I, 297. Mansfield, Joseph K. F., I, 46, 76, 314. Marcy, R. B., I, 313 Markoe, John, I, 222, 226, 272. Martindale, Gen., I, 280, 329. Mason, A. G., I, 316; II, 254. Mason, James M., I, 228, 234, 240. Mayo, Col., I, 296. Meade, Catherine, I, 1, 2. Meade, Elizabeth (Ingraham), I, 21, 22. Meade, Garrett, I, 1, 2. Meade, George, I, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Meade, Col., George, I, 316, 325, 333-336, 338, 341, 343, 349, 350, 354, 358, 364, 368, 369, 371, 375-377, 382, 384-386, 389; II, 2, 12, 66, 67, 102, 103, 125, 132, 134, 143, 163, 167, 180, 185, 186, 194, 200, 204, 205, 209, 229, 232, 249, 263, 264, 266, 269, 270, 277. Meade, Henrietta, I, 251; II, 144. Meade, John Sergeant, I, 55, 64, 1
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 91 (search)
Doc. 87.--speech of A. H. Stephens at Richmond, Va., April 22. The distinguished gentleman was introduced to the throng by Mayor Mayo, and received with hearty cheers. In response, Mr. Stephens returned his acknowledgments for the warmth of the personal greeting, and his most profound thanks for it as the representative of the Confederate States. He spoke of the rejoicing the secession of Virginia had caused among her Southern sisters. Her people would feel justified if they could hear it as he had. He would not speak of the States that were out, but those who were in. North Carolina was out, and did not know exactly how she got out. The fires that were blazing here he had seen all along, his track from Montgomery to Richmond. At Wilmington, N. C., he had counted on one street twenty flags of the Confederate States. The news from Tennessee was equally cheering — there the mountains were on fire. Some of the States still hesitated, but soon all would be in. Tennessee was n
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), N. (search)
pel, used by anatomists to dissect the nerves. Neurotome. Erasistratus of the Alexandrian College of Surgeons, in the Ptolemaian period, wrote upon the nerves, and knew the distinction between those of motion and those of sensation. — Ency. Brit., II. 751. Rufus of Ephesus, who was probably contemporary with Trajan, in his works on anatomy, divided the nerves into those of sensation and of motion. — Nouvelle Biographic Generale, Tome XLII. p. 882. Nevertheless, Sir Charles Bell and Mr. Mayo are credited by Whewell (History of the Inductive Sciences, III. 425) with the discovery that the two offices of conducting the motive impressions from the central seat of the will to the muscles, and of propagating sensations from the surface of the body and the external organs of sense to the sentient mind, reside in two distinct portions of the nervous substance. New′el. 1. (Carpentry.) The post at the head or foot of a stairs, supporting the hand-rail. The center-post of a wi<
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
Aug. 10, 1869. 10,893.Prescott, May 9, 1854.111,415.Wolff, Jan. 31, 1871. 12,424.Smith and Cowles, Feb. 20, 1855.118,289.Smith, Aug. 22, 1871. 26, 791.Skinner, Jan. 10, 1860.120, 866.Felber, Nov. 14, 1871. 27, 597.Noyes, Mar. 20, 1860.128, 970.Mayo, July 16, 1872. 39, 747.Post, Sept. 1, 1863.131,147.Brackett, Sept. 10, 1872. 75, 728.Brooks and Clements, Mar. 24, 1868.136,529.Mayo, March 4, 1873. 151,742.Bailey, June 9, 1874. Sloam. （Mining.) A layer of earth between coal-seams. Mayo, March 4, 1873. 151,742.Bailey, June 9, 1874. Sloam. （Mining.) A layer of earth between coal-seams. Sloates. （Vehicle.) The cross slats in the frame forming the bottom of a cart or wagon bed. Sloop. （Nautical.) a. A foreand-aft rigged vessel with one mast, like a cutter, but having a jib-stay and standing bowsprit, which the cutter has not. b. Formerly a ship of war of a size between a corvette and a brig. War-vessels of 2,000 tons and upward, as large as line-of-battle ships in the days of Howe and Nelson, carrying 12 to 22 heavy guns, are now termed sloops. Slop.
Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders., Chapter 16: (search)
ing to distant points in the country, and escaping from the alarm and distress in Richmond. But the panic, like all excitements of this sort, was soon subdued on reflection, and shamed by the counsels of the brave and intelligent. The newspapers rebuked it in severe terms. The shop-windows were filled with caricatures of the fugitives. Much of the alarm was turned into ridicule. A meeting of citizens, assembled on the 15th of May, in the City Hall, were addressed by Gov. Letcher and Mayor Mayo, and applauded the sentiment that Richmond should be reduced to ashes before it should become a Yankee conquest. The Legislature of Virginia acted with singular spirit, and led in the work of the restoration of public confidence. On the 14th of May it adopted the following resolution, which, indeed, deserves to be committed to history as an example of heroic fortitude and patriotic sacrifice: 4 Resolved, by the General Assembly of Virginia, That the General Assembly hereby expresses
Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders., Chapter 41: (search)
ition of Southern spirit, and twenty-four hours thereafter was subscribing himself to some very petty Federal officer, most respectfully, your most obedient servant. Here and there, hurrying up with the latest news from the War Department, was Mayor Mayo, excited, incoherent, chewing tobacco defiantly, but yet full of pluck, having the mettle of the true Virginian gentleman, stern and watchful to the last in fidelity to the city that his ancestors had assisted in founding, and exhibiting, no mae of them — the Shockoe warehouse-situated near the centre of the city, side by side with the Gallego flour mills, just in a position and circumstances from which a conflagration might extend to the whole business portion of Richmond. In vain Mayor Mayo and a committee of citizens had remonstrated against this reckless military order. The warehouses were fired; the flames seized on the neighbouring buildings and soon involved a wide and widening area; the conflagration passed rapidly beyond c
James Parton, Horace Greeley, T. W. Higginson, J. S. C. Abbott, E. M. Hoppin, William Winter, Theodore Tilton, Fanny Fern, Grace Greenwood, Mrs. E. C. Stanton, Women of the age; being natives of the lives and deeds of the most prominent women of the present gentlemen, Grace Greenwood-Mrs. Lippincott. (search)
of Grace Greenwood. They had the dew of youth, the purple light of love, the bloom of young desire. As well think of culling a handful of moist clover-heads, in the hope of reproducing the sheen and fragrance, the luxuriance and the odor of a meadow, fresh bathed in the Paphilan wells of a June morning! In 1850 many of these sketches and letters were collected and republished by Ticknor & Fields, under the name of Greenwood Leaves. The contemporary estimate given to these writings by Rev. Mr. Mayo is so just and so tasteful that no reader will regret its insertion here :-- The authoress is the heroine of the book; not that she writes about herself always, or often, or in a way that can offend. But her personality gets entangled with every word she utters, and her generous heart cannot be satisfied without a response to all its loves, and hopes, and misgivings, and aspirations. There is extravagance in the rhetoric, yet the delicious extravagance in which a bounding spirit
History of the First Universalist Church in Somerville, Mass. Illustrated; a souvenir of the fiftieth anniversary celebrated February 15-21, 1904, Sunday School members (search)
2 Aldrich Street Lowell, H. Parker42 Aldrich Street Ludwig, Hattie38 Rush Street Mansfield, Mabel 35 Bradley Street Marden, Mr. and Mrs. Frank W.83 Boston Street Marden, Helen83 Boston Street Marden, Mrs. Julia A.83 Boston Street Marden, Louise83 Boston Street Marsten, Marion20 Sever Street, Charlestown Maxwell, Rev. and Mrs. H. D.80 Myrtle Street Maxwell, Bernard80 Myrtle Street Maxwell, Dorothy80 Myrtle Street Maxwell, Marjory 80 Myrtle Street Maxwell, Imogene 80 Myrtle Street Mayo, Liva A.14 Chester Avenue Mess, Mr. and Mrs. J. W.19 Chester Avenue Messer, Mrs. M. J.27 Franklin Street Messer, Millie27 Franklin Street Messer, Theodore27 Franklin Street McAllister, Gaylie9 Louisburg Place McCullough, Eva11 Franklin Street McFarland, Bessie121 Highland Avenue McIntire, Lee.15 Broadway Miers, Louis3 Washington Street Miller, Alice255 Medford Street Mills, Mr. and Mrs. John F.7 Lincoln Street Mills, Mary 7 Lincoln Street Mills, Hubert61 Tufts Street Mills, B
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