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William A. Smith, DD. President of Randolph-Macon College , and Professor of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy., Lectures on the Philosophy and Practice of Slavery as exhibited in the Institution of Domestic Slavery in the United States: withe Duties of Masters to Slaves., Lecture II: the abstract principle of the institution of domestic slavery. (search)
have conceded this point. They all apply the idea of slave to such a case. Nay, more, they furnish a constructive meaning of the term based upon this meaning. They call a man a slave to his passions, who has voluntarily given himself up to be controlled in his future volitions by his passions as the subjective motive of his actions. No bondage is more grievous than that which is voluntary, says Seneca. To be a slave to the passions is more grievous than to be a slave to a tyrant, says Pythagoras. No one can be free who is intent on the indulgence of evil passions, says Plato. And Cicero says, All wicked men are slaves. St. Paul, Rom. VI. 16, uses the term in the same sense, and with the greatest propriety: Know ye not that to whom ye yield yourselves servants [dou/lous, slaves] to obey, his servants [slaves] ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or obedience unto righteousness? (See Dr. A. Clarke, in loc.) And again, Ephesians VI. 5-7: Servants, [dou=loi,] be obed
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 25 (search)
9. Metempsychosis. There is nothing so strange, Pythagoras, That you, my old Greek boy, Remember how, in former life, You fought at the siege of Troy; For I remember kissing a girl Beneath a mulberry-tree-- Why, a. couple of thousand years ago, Verily, it must be! For in the year that Carthage fell, Fell Corinth of less renown; And I was one of the Roman host At the sack of that famous town: And when I had finished my plundering work, Rested and taken mine ease, I climbed up Acrocorinth to view The city between two seas. I saw Parnassus; but, at the sight I burst not into song: I have no music in my heart, No melody in my tongue. Far east the famed Acropolis beamed In Pallas Athene‘s smile: I gazed on the goddess, and, lost in love, Wondered and worshipped awhile. But down to the city I turned mine eyes, And tripping along the street, I saw a girl that no heart of mine Could ever imagine so sweet. Pallas was soon forgotten; I found A love less cold and coy; Ah! Pallas, old gi
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Poor Richard, (search)
Poor Richard, A fictitious name assumed by Benjamin Franklin. In 1732 he began the publication in Philadelphia of an almanac, with the name of Richard Saunders as author. It continued twenty-five years. Sometimes the author called himself Poor Richard, and the publication was generally known as Poor Richard's almanac. It was distinguished for its numerous maxims on temperance, frugality, order, justice, cleanliness, chastity, and the like. It has been said that its precepts are as valuable as any that have descended from Pythagoras.
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), A. (search)
nters of the abacus was derived from a word signifying a pebble. Pythagoras, the great arithmetician, hated beans, — an antipathy he derived mmon origin. Perhaps it may be accounted for by the studies of Pythagoras in India, and the subsequent instruction of Numa in the school fo3XIII±—— 20XX++ 30XXX+++ The resemblance cannot be accidental. Pythagoras and Kung-fu-tze (Confucius) were contemporaries. Another mode o teach. During the reign of the same king, Egypt was visited by Pythagoras and Anacreon, the friends of Polycrates of Samos; Pythagoras, amoPythagoras, among other things, learned to abominate beans, the peculiar aversion of the Egyptian priests. Egypt was also visited about this time by Solon (heory of oar solar system, was taught in Ancient Egypt, and there Pythagoras learned it. This great philosopher perceived its truth, and carrint for what he wanted to the proper mart of science: for not only Pythagoras studied astronomy at Heliopolis, where it was professed with the
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), B. (search)
a misrepresentation by common people of what is really meant. There is yet some difference between the true theory of progression and the doctrine of the Vedas, the Institutes of Menu (contemporary with Elijah and Homer, and the teaching of Pythagoras, 540 B. C. Rosalind, the charming, refers to the latter, apropos of finding the poetry tacked to the palm-tree: — I never was so berhymed since Pythagoras' time that I was an Irish rat, which I can hardly remember. — As you Like It. The pPythagoras' time that I was an Irish rat, which I can hardly remember. — As you Like It. The pious Moslem prays that the All-Merciful will, in the Day of Judgment, take pity on the soul of Abur-Raihan, who first compiled a table of specific gravities, the discovery of the great Archimedes thirteen hundred years before. Our own Draper desires to add a clause associating in this prayer the name of Alhazen, who first traced the curvilinear path of a ray of light through the air. It would not be hard to find good reason for associating the name of Draper with the illustrious two. The <
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), C. (search)
1400 B. C., is due to the vanity of a nation who considered themselves ne plus ultra, in willful forgetfulness of their great instructor, Egypt, from whose fugitives they received so much. Witness Cecrops and Danaus, and the fact that Thales, Pythagoras, Aristotle, Plato, Solon, Herodotus, and others of their sages, were indebted to the land of the Nile for their eminence in science and arts. It is also quite evident that they improved upon their instructors in both. The natives of China aade piecemeal and the portions fastened together. He supposes the statue erected by Ulysses to Neptune to have been thus constructed. He ascribes the art to Rhoecus and Theodorus, of Samos, in the time of Polycrates (555 B. C.), the patron of Pythagoras and Anacreon. Bronze castings of Egyptian and Etruscan workmanship, and of great antiquity, are found, but are not identified with any date. The bronze statues of both nations, in all probability, antedate the foundation of Rome, 753 B. C.
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), F. (search)
his style. Flutes of ancient Egypt and of Brazil. The instrument called a flute in the translation of the Book of Daniel may have been the pandean pipes, which are very ancient, or it may have been the flute as used in Egypt. The flute is very common in the paintings of the Egyptian tombs. The accompanying cut is from a painting in a tomb near the Pyramids. The action indicates the side position of the mouth-pieces and holes. Of the chromatic scale we may learn more from what Pythagoras has written, for no doubt he derived his information from the Egyptian priests, who were scientific musicians. The flutes of ancient Egypt were single and double; the latter are shown on the paintings of Eleythya. In one case the flute is apparently blown through the nostril, like the New Zealand flute. Herodotus (450 B. C.) mentions the marching of the troops of Alyattes the Lydian to the sound of pipes and harps, and flutes masculine and feminine. This has been understood to refe
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), H. (search)
of them Bruce says: They overturn all the accounts hitherto given of the earliest state of music and musical instruments in the East; and are altogether, in their form, ornaments, and compass, an incontestable proof, stronger than a thousand Greek quotations, that geometry, drawing, mechanics, and music were at the greatest perfection when this instrument was made, and that the period from which we date the invention of these arts was only the beginning of the era of their restoration. Pythagoras and his compeers derived their knowledge from this source, and the services of Terpander are probably limited to inventing a method of expressing musical sounds, and perhaps of setting poetry to music. Fame enough for one man. The Egyptian harps are shown, resting on the ground, supported in front of the person in marching, supported on a stool, and resting on the shoulder; the latter at Eleythya. The present scale of musical notation is ascribed to Guido Aretino, a Tuscan monk, abo
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), L. (search)
rough the pages of antiquity. Pliny mentions that the ancients had globes of glass and crystal, and that Nero used glasses when he watched the fights of the gladiators. The old scoundrel was probably troubled with myopia, and had concave glasses. This we must suppose rather than that he had a combination of lenses similar to a telescope or opera-glass. Lactaneus says that a hollow glass sphere full of water will produce the effect of a solid sphere of glass. lamblichus, in his Life of Pythagoras, tells us that the latter strove to contrive instruments that should aid hearing as effectually as optic glasses and other contrivances aided sight. Coming down from the time of Ptolemy to the revival of learning and science under the Saracens, we find that Alhazen, in the twelfth century, wrote on the refraction of rays and the magnifying power of lenses. Draper's remark here is too good to omit. I join, as, doubtless, all natural philosophers will do, in the pious prayer of Alhaze
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), M. (search)
trees spirally, forming a tube wider at one end than the other, to which oval plates of gold, silver, or other metal were attached by strings, intended apparently to jingle in accord with the instrument. The Greeks ascribed the invention of the threestringed lyre to Thoth, the Egyptian Mercury; and Terpander, the Greek, is credited with founding the Greek music, and with the invention of the sevenstringed lyre. He also contrived a method of representing musical sounds, writing music. Pythagoras added an eighth, completing the octave. The Greeks excelled in the use of the flute, using a variety of instruments of different pitch, but probably played in unison, not in harmony. It is apparently well settled that they did understand counterpoint. The Romans seem to have added nothing to the art. Toward the end of the fourth century, St. Ambrose composed a musical service for the church of Milan. Previous to this time, the Christian service was probably various in different pa
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