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G. S. Hillard, Life and Campaigns of George B. McClellan, Major-General , U. S. Army, Chapter 13: (search)
or an analysis and exposition of his military genius, and, if not a comparison with the great generals of other countries and other times, at least some statement of his merits, some enumeration of his claims. But there is an obvious embarrassment in thus dealing with one who is still living, and may chance to read the pages in which his military character is delineated. What is just praise when spoken of the dead may sound like flattery when spoken of the living. In the interview between Solon and Croesus, so beautifully narrated by Herodotus, the king was told by his wise guest that no man could be called happy until a fortunate life had been closed by a peaceful death; for that so long as a man was alive he was the sport and prey of fortune, and no one could tell what the future had in store for him. In like manner, no accurate estimate can be made of the worth and services of a soldier or statesman until the seal of death is set upon his rounded life and there is no more for hi
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I., Analytical Index. (search)
anding, Mo., Union defeat at, 587. Bocock, Thos. S., of Va., 304-5. Bolivar Hights, captured by the Federals, 620. Booneville, Mo., Rebels defeated at, 574. Booth, Sherman M.. case of, at Milwaukee, 215. Border Ruffians, one of their resolutions, 235; further resolves. 236; 237; 238; numerous outrages by, 242 to 245; their manner of voting, 249; are taught piety by John Brown, 286; allusion to, 490. Boreman, Arthur J., chairman of the Wheeling Convention, 518. Borland, Solon, of Ark., 226; he seizes Fort Smith, 498. Boston, memorializes Congress on the Missouri question, 78; respectable Pro-Slavery mob at, 127; repugnance to the Fugitive Slave Law, 215. Boston Courier, The, on Secession, etc., 356. Boston Post, The, on the President's calls, 457. Boteler, A. R., of Va., 372. Boyce, W. W., of S. C., speech at Columbia, 332. Boyd, Col., reinforces Price at Lexington, 587. Boyd, Linn, of Ky., 208; chosen Speaker, 226; again chosen, 250. Brad
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), Chapter 3: (search)
believe in man's inability to that which is good, and therefore he wished this omitted. Dr. Osgood knew so well his force of mind and purity of life that he yielded to his wishes; and on the 22d of March, 1818, the Governor of the Commonwealth declared in public his belief in the divine origin of Christianity, and took his seat at the table of the Lord. We who were present, and witnessed that act of dedication, can never forget the solemnity of the scene. There was so much of Socrates and Solon about him, that Christianity did not seem strange to him. He lived as he professed. It seemed to be his youthful resolution to make his life worthy the contemplation of his most elevated moments in old age. Some years after, he was chosen deacon of the church, but declined on account of age. We may record here an illustration of the truthfulness and depth of his family affections; an illustration which the writer of this witnessed. He said once to his first cousin, Mrs. Jonathan Brooks,
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bankruptcy laws, past and present. (search)
, but that the unfortunate and the unwise may win surcease of their business sorrows and begin again on this side of the grave. It calls to mind that humanitarian provision of the Mosaic law which commanded a release of debtors every seventh year. For more than twenty-five centuries the law-makers of the world have been legislating on bankruptcy. Draco, the pioneer, made it, with laziness and murder, punishable by death. Quite naturally there followed an age of the absconding debtor. Solon, not wishing to depopulate Athens, mollified these ancient blue laws, and even abolished enslavement for debt; but the bankrupt and the bankrupt's heirs forfeited their rights of citizenship. The noble Roman and his Twelve Tables were more draconic than Draco. Gibbon tells us that: At the expiration of sixty days the debt was discharged by the loss of liberty or life; the insolvent debtor was either put to death, or sold in foreign slavery beyond the Tiber: but if several creditors
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Federal Union, the John Fiske (search)
doubt it gained greatly in power thereby. But generally in the Hellenic world the rural population in the neighborhood of a great city were mere peri/oikoi, or dwellers in the vicinity ; the inhabitants of the city who had moved thither from some other city, both they and their descendants, were mere me/toikoi, or dwellers in the place ; and neither the one class nor the other could acquire the rights and privileges of citizenship. A revolution, indeed, went on at Athens, from the time of Solon to the time of Kleisthenes, which essentially modified the old tribal divisions and admitted to the franchise all such families resident from time immemorial as did not belong to the tribes of eupadrids by whom the city was founded. But this change once accomplished, the civic exclusiveness of Athens remained very much what it was before. The popular assembly was enlarged, and public harmony was secured; but Athenian burghership still remained a privilege which could not be acquired by the
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hayne, Robert young -1839 (search)
the new States, has introduced to our notice a certain Nathan Dane, of Massachusetts, to whom he attributes the celebrated ordinance of ‘87, by which he tells us slavery was forever excluded from the new States north of the Ohio. After eulogizing the wisdom of this provision in terms of the most extravagant praise, he breaks forth in admiration of the greatness of Nathan Dane; and great indeed he must be, if it be true, as stated by the Senator from Massachusetts, that he was greater than Solon and Lycurgus, Minos, Numa Pompilius, and all the legislators and philosophers of the world, ancient and modern. Sir, to such high authority it is certainly my duty, in a becoming spirit of humility, to submit. And yet the gentleman will pardon me when I say that it is a little unfortunate for the fame of this great legislator that the gentleman from Missouri should have proved that he was not the author of the ordinance of ‘87, on which the Senator from Massachusetts has reared so glorious
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), A. (search)
was used without the sand, to contain the counters, which were arranged thereon in parallel rows, representing respectively units, tens, hundreds, thousands, etc. Solon (about 600 B. C.) refers to the arbitrary denominations of the several lines, in a metaphor which compares the different grades of society to the different values tes of Samos; Pythagoras, among other things, learned to abominate beans, the peculiar aversion of the Egyptian priests. Egypt was also visited about this time by Solon (Herodotus, I. 30), who came as a student, and afterwards introduced some of the Egyptian laws into his Athenian code. Al-tincar. （Metallurgy.) A factitioumy at Heliopolis, where it was professed with the greatest eclat; but Eudoxus got his geometry at Memphis, whose priests were the most profound mathematicians; and Solon was instructed in civil wisdom at Sais, whose patron deity being Minerva (as we are told by Herodotus and Strabo), shows polities to have been there in most reques
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), B. (search)
Double foot-bellows, and duplicate pipes to the iron furnace, with four tuyeres, are shown in the paintings of Kourna, Thebes. The blow-pipe and tongs in connection with a smelting-furnace in the same place. The mention of the burning of the bellows in Jeremiah VI. 29, seems to have been in connection with lead and silver smelting and refining. This is a common combination of metals in ores. Strabo ascribes the invention of the bellows to Anacharsis the Scythian, who was coeval with Solon. The anchor and the potter's wheel are also ascribed to this man by Pliny, Seneca, and other Romans; the declaration, however, is quite inadmissible as to the potter's wheel, and equally untrue as to both the bellows and the anchor. Homer mentions the potter's wheel, and it was used in Egypt one thousand years before Homer. On the walls of the tombs of ancient Egypt are painted, Ptah, the Creator, and Neph, the Divine Spirit, sitting at the potter's wheel turning clay to form men. Amon
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), C. (search)
is known to have been in use as long ago as 2000 B. C., and its origin is lost in the obscurity of the remote past. The Greek tradition that wheeled vehicles were invented by Erectorius, the fourth king of Athens, about 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 and India used carts from an early date, which cannot now be determined; the modern Indian cart is a good deal like its predecessor. So clumsy are they that the palanquin is likely to maintain its hold for a while yet. The wandering Scythians from time immemorial covered th
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), D. (search)
pit. The fossu around a Roman encampment was usually 9 feet broad and 7 feet deep; but if an attack was apprehended, it was made 13 feet wide and 12 feet deep. The agger, or parapet, of the encampment was raised from the earth of the fossa, and was crowned with a row of sharp stakes. Valli. The ditch outside the rampart on the western side of Rome was 100 feet wide, 30 deep. The work was constructed by Servius Tullius. 2. An artificial water-course for drainage. By the laws of Solon (594 B. C.), no one was allowed to dig a ditch but at the same distance from his neighbor's land that the ditch was deep. This was the same in the Roman laws of the twelve tables. The Grecian law compelled one who planted common trees to place them no nearer than 9 feet from his boundary; olives, 10 feet. The law of the twelve tables made it, olives and figs 9 feet, other trees 5 feet. The agricultural ditches of the Romans were open (fossa patentes) or closed (fossa coecoe); the latter
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