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Plato, Phaedrus, section 229c (search)
SocratesNo, the place is about two or three furlongs farther down, where you cross over to the precinct of Agra; and there is an altar of Boreas somewhere thereabouts.PhaedrusI have never noticed it. But, for Heaven's sake, Socrates, tell me; do you believe this tale is true?SocratesIf I disbelieved, as the wise men do, I should not be extraordinary; then I might give a rational explanation, that a blast of Boreas, the north wind, pushed her off the neighboring rocks as she was playing with Pharmacea, and
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), C. (search)
Mohammed II., A. D. 1464. Bore, 25 in.; total length, 17 ft.; weight, 41,888 pounds. d, the Dulle-Griete, of Ghent, Holland. Wroughtiron, made in 1430. Bore, 25 in.; total length, 197 in.; weight, 29,120 pounds. e, great bronze gun of Agra, India, Dhool-Dhanee. Cast in 1628. Bore, 23.2 in.; total length, 170.2 in.; weight, 67,648 pounds. f, wrought-iron gun, Mons Mcg, Edinburgh. Made before 1460. Bore, 20 in.; total length, 159 in.; weight, 12,768 pounds. g, Michelette le Graneval consisting in the increase of the power of bishops and queen, and the introduction of castling. The Emperor Akbar (1543-1605), surnamed Jalalud-din, The glory of the faith, had a chess court in his palace at Futtehpore, nineteen miles from Agra on the Ganges. He was the greatest and the wisest of the monarchs of Hindostan, and, like Alfred of the West Saxons, seems to have been as versatile as he was grand. On the tesselated pavement of one of the court-yards of this splendid palace, t
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), D. (search)
f Mahmoud's tomb as representatives of the success of Mohammedan domination, and carried them back to India proper, chanting a paean whose refrain was the insult of eight hundred years is avenged, and commanding that the doors should be transmitted with all honor to the Temple of Siva. The British government, goaded on the one hand by Exeter Hall, and on the other by its fear of the two unmingled races who occupy Hindostan, found itself with an elephant on its hands, and stopped the gates at Agra, where they remain. Doors. A, batten-door. B, panel-door. a, top-rail. b, middle or lock rail. c, bottom-rail. d, hanging style. e, lock style. f, munnion or muntin. g, panels. In a six-panel door the rail next to the top rail is called the frieze-rail. A panel wider than its hight is a lying-panel. If of equal hight and width, a square panel. If its hight be greater than its width, a standing panel. Double-door; two pairs of folding-doors, hung on the
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), I. (search)
he articles recovered from ancient Babylon. Overlaying was practiced by the same people. Herodotus states that Glaucus the Chian was the man who invented the art of inlaying steel. The salver made by Glaucus was offered by Alyattes the Lydian at the oracle of Delphi. It is described by Athenaeus as covered with representations of plants and animals. Alyattes was the father of Croesus, who reigned till defeated by Cyrus, 556 B. C. Under this head we may fairly refer to the Taj at Agra, the most beautiful building in the world. It is thus described by Sir Charles Dilke: — On the river bank [the Jumna], a mile from Akbar's palace, in the center of a vast garden entered through the noblest gateways in the world, stands the Taj Mahal, a terrace rising in dazzling whiteness from a black mass of cypresses, and bearing four lofty and delicate minars, and the central pile that gleams like an alp against the deep blue sky,--minars, temple, tomb, all of spotless marble and fa
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), R. (search)
mns, obelisks, and other immense blocks, weighing hundreds of tons. The royal roads of Persia ran by the side of the common roads, and were reserved for the uses of the king alone. They were kept in better condition than the common roads, and gave rise to that remark of Euclid, the mathematician, to Ptolemy Philadelphus, at a dinner in the Museum of Alexandria, There is no royal road to geometry. The Moguls constructed good roads in India, with a distancestone at the end of every koss. Agra, Lahore, and Cashmere were thus connected. With the death of Aurungzebe these improvements ceased, and the works commenced to decay. At a comparatively late date the work of improvement of the Indian roads has been pursued with vigor. The Grand Trunk Road connects Calcutta with Peshawur on the borders of Affghanistan. The military roads of Peru were built, one on the plateau, the other on the shore. The former, for nearly 2,000 miles, crossed sierras, gorges, and rivers, by tunnels,
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
the fly-wheel b. At the lower end of the swing-frame is a horizontal bar extending the width of the table, and having attached a number of rods c, carrying flat rubbers of wood covered with felt. The attachments of the connectingrods to the crank and rocking-frame are adjustable, to vary the length of stroke. See also page 1393. Stone-polishing machine. Perhaps the most perfectly polished piece of architecture in the world is the Taj, on the west bank of the Jumna, about 3 miles from Agra. The buildings of the Taj are erected on a platform about 20 feet high, and occupy a space of about 350 feet square They consist of the tomb itself, which is an octagon, surmounted by an egg-shaped dome of about 70 feet in circumference, and of four minarets, about 150 feet high, which shoot up like columns of light into the blue sky. One peculiar feature is its perfect purity, for all portions of the Taj —the platform, the minarets, the building proper—are of pure white marble. The only ex
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Section Fifth: Senatorial career. (search)
gue ye go for men; As hounds and greyhounds, mongrels, spaniels, curs, Shoughs, water-rugs, and demi-wolves are clept All by the name of dogs, leashed together by secret signs and lodges, renew the incredible atrocities of the Assassins and the Thugs,—showing the blind submission of the Assassins to the Old Man of the Mountain in robbing Christians on the road to Jerusalem, and the heartlessness of the Thugs, who, avowing that murder is their religion, waylay travellers on the great road from Agra to Delhi,—with the more deadly bowie-knife for the dagger of the Assassin, and the more deadly revolver for the noose of the Thug. Lxxv. In these invasions, with the entire subversion of all security in this Territory, the plunder of the ballot-box, and the pollution of the electoral franchise, I show simply the process of unprecedented Crime. If that be the best government where injury to a single citizen is resented as injury to the whole State, what must be the character of a gove
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Lxxiv. (search)
ce of the pioneer, whose wife and children find shelter at his feet; but now the tear must be dropped over the sorrows of fellow-citizens building a new State in Kansas, and exposed to the perpetual assault of murderous robbers from Missouri. Hirelings, picked from the drunken spew and vomit of an uneasy civilization, having the form of men,— Ay, in the catalogue ye go for men; As hounds and greyhounds, mongrels, spaniels, curs, Shoughs, water-rugs, and demi-wolves are clept All by the name of dogs, leashed together by secret signs and lodges, renew the incredible atrocities of the Assassins and the Thugs,—showing the blind submission of the Assassins to the Old Man of the Mountain in robbing Christians on the road to Jerusalem, and the heartlessness of the Thugs, who, avowing that murder is their religion, waylay travellers on the great road from Agra to Delhi,—with the more deadly bowie-knife for the dagger of the Assassin, and the more deadly revolver for the noose of the
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 1. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Narrative and legendary poems (search)
valley swept, And gray below the ocean slept, As time and space I wandered o'er To tread the Mogul's marble floor, And see a fairer sunset fall On Jumna's wave and Agra's wall. The good Shah Akbar (peace be his alway!) Came forth from the Divan at close of day Bowed with the burden of his many cares, Worn with the hearing of unnone; And the tired monarch, who aside had thrown The day's hard burden, sat from care apart, And let the quiet steal into his heart From the still hour. Below him Agra slept, By the long light of sunset overswept: The river flowing through a level land, By mango-groves and banks of yellow sand, Skirted with lime and orange, gay ks forgives Conquers himself and all things else, and lives Above the reach of wrong or hate or fear, Calm as the gods, to whom he is most dear.” Two leagues from Agra still the traveller sees The tomb of Akbar through its cypress-trees; And, near at hand, the marble walls that hide The Christian Begum sleeping at his side. And o
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 25., Medford Ship building Notes (search)
826 tons 1864SteamshipFall River932 tons 1865ShipHoratio Harris1100 tons 1866BrigNelly Hastings550 tons 1867BarqueJohn Worster600 tons 1868ShipSpringfield1000 tons 1869ShipCashmere900 tons Built by Joshua T. Foster:— 1855ShipPleiades600 tons 1855ShipLuecothea950 tons 1856ShipAddie Snow1000 tons 1856ShipHesperus1020 tons 1858ShipTemplar800 tons 1859ShipMogule800 tons 1860ShipMatilda875 tons 1860ShipPunjaub760 tons 1860BarqueMogul500 tons 1861ShipQuisnell1012 tons 1862ShipAgra875 tons 1862ShipTangore916 tons 1863ShipNepaul935 tons 1863ShipCosamundal600 tons 1863ShipEastern Belle1030 tons 1867ShipMistic Belle755 tons 1868ShipDon Quixote1174 tons 1869ShipJ. T. Foster1207 tons 1873ShipPilgrim650 tons Built by Hayden & Cudworth:— 1855ZZBarqueZephyr40 tons 1855ShipRival 1855ShipElectric Spark1200 tons 1855ShipGoddess280 tons 18ZZZShipThatcher Magoun1200 tons 18ZZZShipGoodspeed280 tons 18ZZZBarqueCaptain Paine512 tons 1866ShipHenry Hastings Enum