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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Locke, John -1704 (search)
to the Court of Brandenburg in 1664. While pursuing philosophical studies in 1667, he became acquainted with Lord Ashley (afterwards Earl of Shaftesbury), and by his medical skill advised a surgical operation that saved his lordship's life. By him Locke was introduced to the most distinguished statesmen of the time. He superintended the education of Ashley's son, and assisted him in preparing a scheme of government for the Carolinas (see fundamental constitutions). When Ashley (then Earl of Shaftesbury) was accused of treason (1683), he fled to Holland, and Locke followed him. Locke had held various public offices, but now he remained quietly in Holland until after the revolution (1688), when he returned to England in the same vessel that bore the Princess Mary thither. Locke's principal work was an Essay on the human understanding, published twenty years after it was begun. Locke ranks among the most eminent mental philosophers. He died in Essex county, England, Oct. 28, 1704.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Oglethorpe, James Edward 1698-1785 (search)
is own glory, but for a benevolent purpose. He returned to England in 1743, where, after performing good military service as majorgeneral against the Young Pretender (1745), and serving a few years longer in Parliament, he retired to his seat in Essex. When General Gage returned from America, in 1775, Oglethorpe was offered the general command of the British troops in this country, though he was then about seventy-seven years of age. He did not approve the doings of the ministry, and declinede retired to his seat in Essex. When General Gage returned from America, in 1775, Oglethorpe was offered the general command of the British troops in this country, though he was then about seventy-seven years of age. He did not approve the doings of the ministry, and declined. He was among the first to offer congratulations to John Adams, because of American independence, when that gentleman went as minister to England in 1784. He died in Essex, England, Jan. 30, 1785. See Florida; Georgia.
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), A. (search)
expensive, especially the larger sizes. Dr. Dick mentions one of 5 1/2 inches aperture and 5 1/2 feet focal length, which cost 200 guineas. Plopl, an optician of Vienna, has recently invented an improvement on the achromatic, which he calls the dialytic telescope, in which the several different kinds of glass composing the compound object-glass are not placed close together, but at regulated distances apart. This arrangement allows a shortening of the tube. Chester More Hall, of Essex, England, invented the achromatic telescope in 1729, but did not make it public. Dollond had to invent it over again. Acid-ime-ter. An instrument for determining the purity or strength of acids, founded on the principle that the strength of any sample of acid is proportionate to the quantity of alkali which it will neutralize, or the quantity of carbonic acid gas which it disengages from a carbonate of soda or potash. An accurate and economical apparatus for this purpose is proposed by Dr
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), C. (search)
crushing machine, consisting of a pair of cast-iron rollers, for grinding roasted ore. Chats. （Mining.) The central portion or stratum of a mass of ore in the process of washing. Chatty. A porous earthen water-pot, used in India in refrigerating. Chauf′fer. A small table-furnace. It may be of iron or of a black-lead crucible, fitted with air-holes and a grate. Che-bec′. （Nautical.) A kind of vessel employed in the Newfoundland fisheries. Named from Chebacco (now Essex), a town in Massachusetts. Also called a pink-stern. Check. 1. (Fabric.) A pattern produced by crossing stripes in the warp and the weft. The stripes may be of varying colors, or varying thickness, or both. 2. An East-Indian screen or sun-shade made of narrow strips of bamboo, four to six feet long, with connecting cords, and hung before doors or windows of apartments. 3. A card, plate, or tag in duplicate, used to identify articles placed promiscuously with others. See bag
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), L. (search)
their system of dikes. Walcheren is formed of ten islets united into one. At the middle of the fifteenth century, Goeree and Overflakkee consisted of separate islands, containing altogether about ten thousand acres. By means of above sixty successive advances of the dikes, they have been brought to compose a single island, whose area is not less than sixty thousand acres. The first dikes of Holland are attributed to the Romans. A levee 6,000 yards in length defends the Romney Marsh, Essex, England, from overflow by the sea. The levee was made during the occupancy of Britain by the Romans, and is kept in good order, 24,000 acres of rich land being thus obtained. The fresh water in the ditches passes off at the lowest state of the tide by three sluices. In Lincolnshire, England, 400,000 acres of feverand-ague breeding swamp-land have been transformed into fields of wheat, barley, and oats, and excellent meadows. See scoop-wheel. Lev′el. An instrument for indicating a hor
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), M. (search)
track like that of a mole, establishing a duct to lead water from the subsoil, pressing the earth away, but not purposely disturbing the surface. Mole plow. It is said to have been invented by Adam Scott (British), and will be easily understood by the illustration. The work is all beneath the soil, in positions where a surface drain is inadmissible, the thin colter to which the mole is attached only making a mark which is soon obliterated. It was used in draining the marshes of Essex, England, during the latter part of the last century. Tile-laying mole-plow. In a modification, the mole is attached by a short chain to the bottom of the sharp standard, to permit the mole to avoid obstacles, and by lessening its rigidity increase the ease of traction. Fig. 3207 is a tile-laying mole-plow. The cutter-bar is pivoted to the carriage, and adjustable to vary the presentation of its foot by means of an upper beam to which it is attached and braced. A mole trails behind the
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
Vecchia, Ostia, and Antium, as well as those of many modern ports, especially in Europe, whose small rivers afford but narrow refuges. The Roman embankments of Essex and Lincolnshire, in England, were steep mounds of earth, defended by rows of piles, the intervals between the rows being filled up with chalk. Modern embankm off side, whether on the side-saddle or pillion. Queen Elizabeth's side-saddle. The side-saddle of Queen Elizabeth is still preserved at Horeham Hall, Essex, England. The pommel is of wroughtmetal, and has been gilt. The seat is a velvet cushion. I did borrow a very fine side-saddle for my wife. — Pepys, 1661. Sidelian systems of drainage, though the facilities there are not great, as the tides of the Mediterranean have a much smaller range of elevation. The Romney marsh, Essex, England was obtained from the sea nearly 2,000 years back, and consists of 24,000 acres. The water is kept back by a levee 6,000 yards long, and the fresh water f
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 2, Chapter 35: the situation. (search)
olk and urban folk-hedgers and ditchers, skilled mechanics, small farmers, Irish labourers, domestic servants, and bankers' clerks. Our Government does nothing to promote this reflux of the tide. An emigrant, as such, receives no help in getting back; yet thousands and tens of thousands are now fighting their way home to Liverpool and Cork. Ten years ago you never met a Munster peasant or an Essex labourer who had been in America. America was a paradise from which no Munster peasant, no Essex labourer, ever dreamt of coming back. To-day there is another tale to tell. In every hamlet round Cork you find peasants who have tried Chicago and St. Louis. In the neighbourhood of Ongar and Brentwood you hear labourers talk of the Kansas crickets. They have trod the land of promise, and have slipt away to their ancient homes. Germany appears to offer no richer crop of future settlers than the British Isles. Indeed, she offers less; for Prince von Bismarck is directing his attentio
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2, Index to volumes I. And II. (search)
, 196; card from G., 180, final censure from G., 196; influence against G.'s lecturing in Newburyport, 208. Torrey, Charles Turner, Rev. [b. Scituate, Mass., Nov. 21, 1813; d. Baltimore, Md., May 9, 1846], cor. sec. Andover A. S. S., 2.220, of Essex Co. A. S. Soc., 300, 331; approves Clerical Appeal, 266; protests against female A. S. membership, 220, 275; contrives clerical plot, 253, 262, 266, 268, 269, 272; abuse of G., 270; speech at annual meeting Mass. A. S. S., 272, defeat, 275; pushes Mass. Abolitionist, 286; at quarterly meeting Mass. A. S. S., 287; protests against equal female membership, 297; defence at New Eng. Convention, 305; founds Mass. Abolition Soc., 306; fails to capture Essex Co. A. S. S., 331; at Albany Convention, 342, at Chardon St., 427; opposes Borden's reflection, 437. Torrey, M. C., artist, 2.69. Towne, Joseph H., Rev., co-author of Clerical Appeal, 2.136, 139, 140, 141, 156, 157, at Worcester Convention, 170, at new A. S. organization, 177.
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 1, chapter 26 (search)
ce composed of the beauty and fashion of the city, but in the midst of the performance some Roman wag flung upon the stage a handful of nuts, and immediately the actors were monkeys again. Our statesmen went to Washington monkeys in human attire, determined to compromise if possible; the South flung nuts among them for eighteen months, and they were on all fours for the temptation. [Laughter and applause.] That epoch is ended. As in Cromwell's day they sloughed off such effete elements as Essex and Fairfax, we should slough off generals and statesmen; and never can we be successful till routine West Point and rotten Whiggery have been made to put on decent attire, or sent back to private life, and those put in their places who believe in absolute, uncompromising war. This real democratic element in the North is strong enough, were it one and united, to have crushed all its foes on this continent in ninety days. There never was a time since the commencement of the struggle when,
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