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George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 2 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: January 31, 1861., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), X. (search)
X. Xe′bec. （Vessel.) A small three-masted vessel with lateen sails, used for coasting voyages in the Mediterranean and on the ocean-coasts of Spain and Portugal. Xy-log′lo-dine. An explosive compound invented by Carl Dittmar of Charlottenburg, Prussia. It is a fluid of milky, reddish, or white color, of a consistency varying from that of ordinary sirup to thick broth, and is intended to be mixed with cellulose or other porous substance to form dualin, though it may be used singly. It is composed of nitric and sulphuric acids, and either glycerine-starch, glycerine-cellulose, glycerine-mannite, glycerinebenzole, or analogous substance. In its preparation commercial sulphuric acid is boiled with pulverized charcoal until it is freed from nitrogen and attains the density of 67° B. 1 1/2 parts of this, or 1 part of the purified acid and 1/2 part of fuming sulphuric acid, are mixed with 1 part of thoroughly purified nitric acid, specific gravity 48° to 50° B.,
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 25: (search)
Danaide pouring out water, nearly completed, for the Crown Prince; and several other things,—but we missed seeing himself, as he is gone to Halle for a visit. I recollect both Rauch and Tieck very well, living in the picturesque valley of Carrara, in 1818, and hard at work on the monuments to which they have since trusted their fame. I should have been very glad, however, to see Rauch again; for though, when I saw him, he had already settled his reputation by the statue of the Queen at Charlottenburg, he had not proved the greater compass of his genius now shown in the still more beautiful statue at Potsdam, and the statues of Blucher, Scharnhorst, and Bulow, with their bas-reliefs in the great square in Berlin. I passed an hour this evening at Miss Solmar's, a well-known maiden lady of pleasant pretensions in conversation, who talks all tongues and keeps open house every evening. I met there, besides the Forsters,—with whom I went,—Varnhagen, formerly Prussian Minister in Bavari<
The Daily Dispatch: January 31, 1861., [Electronic resource], Will of the late King of Prussia. (search)
late King of Prussia. --The will of William V. of Prussia, just dead, was written in 1854, before his mind became affected. The following is an extract from it: "If God the Lord decree that I terminate my terrestrial career peaceably in my country, and if, which I fervently entreat of Him on my knees, my tender and beloved Elise shall survive me, this paper is to be delivered to her immediately after any death. Whatever she shall change shall be executed as if that were written here; her order shall be mine.--Moreover, I wish one day to repose by her side, in the same tomb, as near to her as possible. "As soon as my decease shall have been certified by the physicians, I wish my body to be washed and opened. My heart, deposited in a large heart formed of granite from the country of Marche, and placed at the entrance of the vault in the mausoleum of Charlottenburg (and consequently at the feet of my Royal parents,) shall be enclosed in the ground and covered by it."