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Henry Morton Stanley, Dorothy Stanley, The Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley, part 2.13, chapter 2.24 (search)
he writes:-- Rest! Ah, my dear! we both need it — I more than you. Absolute stillness, somewhere in remote and inaccessible places, in an island, or in the air, only certain articles of food and comfort being indispensable. Then let me wake to strains of music, and I think I should rise to life again! Until then, existence is mere prolonged endurance. Stanley all his life had a passion for reading, when he could not be doing. He delighted in reading Caesar, Thucydides, Xenophon, Polybius, and lighter books also did not come amiss. From Cheltenham, he wrote:-- I have begun again on Thucydides. Gladstone's Gleanings are ended. They are all good. Strange! how I detect the church-going, God-fearing, conscientious Christian, in almost every paragraph. Julian Corbett's Drake is fair; I am glad I read it, and refreshed myself with what I knew before of the famous sailor. From the Bell Hotel, Gloucester, he wrote, June 3, 1891:-- I had a long walk into the country,
Henry Morton Stanley, Dorothy Stanley, The Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley, part 2.13, chapter 2.29 (search)
r a new orchard. Stanley gave her a bathing-house and canoes. I gave her roses. One day Stanley told me that a case full of books had just arrived, which we could unpack together in the evening. The case was opened, and I greatly rejoiced at the prospect of book-shelves crammed with thrilling novels, and stories of adventure. Stanley carefully removed the layers of packing-paper, and then commenced handing out . . . translations of the Classics, Euripides, Xenophon again, Thucydides, Polybius, Herodotus, Caesar, Homer; piles of books on architecture, on landscape gardening, on house decoration; books on ancient ships, on modern ship-building. Not a book for me! I exclaimed dismally. Next week, another case arrived, and this time all the standard fiction, and many new books, were ranged on shelves awaiting them. Stanley's appetite for work in one shape or another was insatiable, and the trouble he took was always a surprise, even to me. Nothing he undertook was done in a ha
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), B. (search)
uld not grow and be fruitful, Osiris taught the inhabitants to make drink of barley, little inferior in strength and pleasant flavor to wine itself. — Diodorus Siculus (60 B. C.). Hecataeus, in his Description of the world, refers to the Egyptian beer. Sophocles and Aeschylus also. The latter, — And after this he drank his beer, and much And loudly bragged Athenaeus says that Thracians and Paeonians drank of barley-wine, or a similar drink made from millet or other grain. Polybius describes the palace of one of the Spanish kings as being [furnished with] huge silver and gold goblets full of the wine made of barley. — Athenaeus. Aristotle says that wine of grapes is stimulating, but that of barley has a tendency to stupefy. — Ibid. Beer-cooler. Beer-cool′er. （Brewing.) a. A large shallow vat or cistern in which the beer is exposed to the air to cool. b. A tub or cistern in which beer is exposed to cooling influences mechanically exerted, as in F
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), G. (search)
same, and the trade of England with Odessa, at the present time, is a counterpart of that which twenty-three centuries ago was carried on between Athens and the Scyths of the Pontus. The Greeks in former times [Strabo, A. D. 16] imported from the Chersonesus corn and the cured fish of Palus Maeotus. Leucon is said to have sent to the Athenians 2,100,000 medimni of grain from Theodosia (a town). A medimnus was about 1 1/2 bushels, English. A Sicilian bushel of wheat in the time of Polybius (150 B. c.) was worth, in Cisalpine Gaul, Lombardy, and Piedmont, 4 oboli per bushel, barley 2 oboli. The obolus was about 3 cents. The tavern price there for a good meal was 1/4 obolus. The granaries of the Romans were of several kinds, and were enumerated at 327. One kind was a building with heavy brick walls, and a hole in the roof through which it was filled. Another was a structure raised on wooden columns. Egyptian granaries. In Thrace, Cappadocia, Spain, and Africa, gr
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), I. (search)
rnament the Phoenician galleys. Beds inlaid or veneered with ivory were used by those who, as Amos says, are at case in Zion, that lie upon beds of ivory and stretch themselves upon their couches. Two hunting inscriptions, one of which principally records the elephant hunts of Ptolemy Philadelphus, were discovered and copied by Lepsius from the colossi of Aboo Simbel. Since ancient times elephants have withdrawn more to the south in Eastern Africa also. According to the testimony of Polybius, when African and Indian elephants encountered each other on fields of battle, the sight, the smell, and the cries of the larger and stronger Indian elephants drove the African ones to flight. The latter were never employed as war elephants in such large numbers as were used in Asiatic expeditions, where Khandragupta had assembled 9,000, the powerful king of the Prasii 6,000, and Akbar as many. The Numidian Metellus had 142 elephants killed in the circus. In the games given by Pompey,
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
gos. Fire-signals were prepared by Mardonius to notify his master, the great king Xerxes, then at Sardis, of the second taking of Athens. At a later period, Polybius describes a semaphoric system improved by him, in which messages were transmitted by spelling out the words. The letters of the Greek alphabet were divided intothese means were capable of expressing a limited number of signals. The Marquis of Worcester seems to have had in his mind an arrangement analogous to that of Polybius, the sight being aided by telescopes, then recently discovered. Such, at least, may be guessed of the very foggy description. The learned and practical Dr. Hinated Heating several times in contact with charcoal was held to purify it. It was not understood till comparatively lately that steel is a carburet of iron. Polybius, the friend of Scipio Africanus, states that the helmet and armor of the Roman soldier were of bronze, but that the sword was a cut and thrust blade of Spanish s
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), T. (search)
ble. 3. Tangible. 1. Of the first are:— a. Semaphores; moving or posturing arms (Chappe's; Pasley's; Popham's). b. Arrangement of disks, triangles (Edgeworth's), lanterns, arbitrary characters (Hook's). c. Waving flags or torches (Polybius) by day or night. d. Various flags disposed on signal halyards (Marine Code). e. Colored lights. f. Rockets varying in number or variety. g. Intermittent flashes of light, from a mirror (heliotrope), or a lantern. h. Puffs of smokChap. 115, was kept secret by the Phoenicians, who had been dealing with the Celtic natives of Cornwall and Ireland for many centuries, introducing among them many of the weapons and implements which are found in their barrows and bogs. Strabo, Polybius, and Diodorus, each has his guess as to the geographical position of the islands. The trading for tin seems to have been conducted at St. Michael's mound in Cornwall, to which place it was carried in carts across the sands when the channel was
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 12. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), General Sherman's march from Atlanta to the coast-address before the survivors' Association of Augusta, Ga., April 20th, 1884. (search)
pursued a course which would have been fully vindicated as an act of just retaliation for the unparalleled acts of brutality perpetrated by your own army on our own soil. But we do not war upon women and children. Compare General Orders No. 72 of the immortal Lee——redolent, even amid the smoke and carnage of the hottest warfare, of exalted civilization and generous humanity—with the atrocious proclamations of General Butler or the vandal acts of Sheridan, and then listen to the words of Polybius, spoken when the world was two thousand years younger than it now is, and uttered not in the tone of passion and hate so rife in his day, but in inculcation of the soundest lessons of political and moral wisdom: When men proceed to wreak their fury on senseless objects, whose destruction will neither be of advantage to themselves nor in the slightest degree disable their opponent from carrying on the war, especially if they burn the temples of the gods, destroy their statues, and waste thei<
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The Signal Corps in the Confederate States army. (search)
The Signal Corps in the Confederate States army. Though communicating by signal and in cipher is as old as the time of Polybius, its application to military correspondence and messages on the field of battle had been so little systematized and developed when you were put in charge of the Confederate Signal Corps, that the art might, for practical purposes, be regarded as a new one. By judicious arrangement and administration it attained a high efficiency, and to you largely belongs the credit for that result. Letter of Jefferson Davis to Colonel Wm. Norris. The beginnings of the Signal Service in the Confederate army were about simultaneous in the Peninsular command of General John B. Magruder and in the Army of Northern Virginia under General Beauregard. Captain Norris, a member of General Magruder's staff — a gentleman of scientific education and of some nautical experience-called the attention of the General to the advantages to be derived from a system of signals con
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Index. (search)
ckett, Col. John T., 273, 418. Pierpoint, Gov. F. H., 356. Pillow, Gen G. J., 70, 74, 81, 350. Pinckney, Chas C.. 13, 429. Pinckney, Major, Thos., 10. Pitts, Lt., 379. Pizzini, Tr., Capt. A., 296. Platt, Capt. J. A., Death of, 270 Pleasants, James, Heroism of, 222. Plumb, U. S. Senator, 451. Pole Green Church, Battle of, 232. Polk, Gen. L., 43, 69, 80, 81, 204; address of, to army, 229; criticizes Gen. Pillow, 74; 301, 311, 370, 385. Polk, Capt. Marshall T., 71. Polybius, 93. Poole, Capt. W. G., 304. Poore, Major, 66. Pond, Col., 303. Pope, Gen. John, 31, 97, 257. Pope, Capt. Y. I., 379. Porter, Rev., A. Toomer, 142. Porter, Gov. James D., 352. Porterfield, Col., Geo. A., Narrative of Services, 1861-1861, 82, 88. Port Royal captured, 122. Powell, Sergeant J. L., 92. Pratt, Capt , 48, 52. Pray. Lt. A. W., 20. Prentiss, Gen., 301, 306; his cavalry, 62, 64. Presidents of the U. S. born North and South, 431, 436. Pressley, H. M
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