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the Rev. W. Turner , Jun. , MA., Lives of the eminent Unitarians 2 0 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Agreement of the people, (search)
Towns, and Parishes therein, except Southwark, 5; Southwark, 2. Middlesex, with the Boroughs, Towns, and Parishes therein, except such as are hereunder named, 4; London, 8: Westminster and the Duchy, 2. Hertfordshire, with the Boroughs, Towns, and Parishes therein, 6. Buckinghamshire, with the Boroughs, Towns, and Parishes therein, 6. Oxfordshire, with the Boroughs, Towns, and Parishes therein, except such as are hereunder named, 4; Oxford City, 2; Oxford University, 2. Gloucestershire, with the Boroughs, Towns, and Parishes therein, except Gloucester, 7; Gloucester, 2. Herefordshire, with the Boroughs, Towns, and Parishes therein, except Hereford, 4; Hereford, 1. Worcestershire, with the Boroughs. Towns, and Parishes therein, except Worcester, 4; Woreester, 2. Warwickshire, with the Boroughs, Towns, and Parishes therein, except Coventry, 5; Corentry, 2. Northamptonshire, with the Boroughs, Towns, and Parishes therein, except Northampton. 5 ; Northampton
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Botetourt, Norborne Berkeley, Baron, (search)
Botetourt, Norborne Berkeley, Baron, Colonial governor; born in Gloucestershire, England, about 1717. But little is known of his career in his earlier life. He was colonel of the Gloucestershire militia, and was summoned to Parliament as Baron Botetourt (the title having been in abeyance since 1406) in April, 1764. He succeeded Sir Jeffrey Amherst has governor-in-chief of Virginia, and arrived there in November, 1768. Having been instructed to assume great dignity, he appeared in the street, of Williamsburg in a coach, with guards and other in-signia of vice-regal pomp: and entered upon his duties with a determination to enforce submission to parliamentary authority. With a generous mind he perceived the righteousness of colonial indignation because of the taxation schemes of the ministry, and he forwarded to England remonstrances of the representatives of the people, with his own opinion against the wisdom and justice of parliamentary measures. In interfering with the wishe
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Fine Arts, the. (search)
ing pictures by employing sunlight as the artist was the result of the previous experiments and writings concerning the chemical action of light by Dr. Draper. The American Academy of Fine Arts was incorporated in 1808, and the first public exhibition of works of art followed. At the suggestion of Prof. Samuel F. B. Morse (q. v.) younger painters associated, and in 1826 organized the National Academy of the Arts of Design in the United States. In 1622 Edward Palmer, a native of Gloucestershire, England, obtained from the London Company a grant of land in Virginia, and from the Plymouth Company a tract in New England. Mr. Palmer died late in 1624. Just before his death he made provision in his will for the establishment, conditionally, of a university in Virginia, with which was to be connected a school of fine arts. His will, dated Nov. 22 (O. S.), 1624, provided for the descent of his lands in Virginia and New England to his sons and nephews, saying: But if all issue fails, the
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Government, instrument of. (search)
idge Town, 1; Cambridge University, 1; Isle of Ely, 2; Cheshire, 4; Chester, 1; Cornwall, 8; Launceston, 1; Truro, 1; Penryn, 1; East Looe and West Looe, 1 Cumberland, 2; Carlisle, 1; Derbyshire, 4 Derby Town, 1; Devonshire, 11; Exeter, 2; Plymouth, 2; Clifton, Dartmouth, Hardness, 1; Totnes, 1; Barnstable, 1; Tiverton, 1; Honiton, 1; Dorsetshire, 6; Dorchester, 1; Weymouth and Melcomb-Regis, 1; Lyme-Regis, 1; Poole, 1; Durham, 2; City of Durham, 1; Essex, 13; Malden, 1; Colchester, 2; Gloucestershire, 5; Gloucester, 2; Tewkesbury, 1; Cirencester, 1; Herefordshire, 4; Hereford, 1; Leominster, 1; Hertfordshire, 5; St. Alban's, 1; Hertford, 1; Huntingdonshire, 3; Huntingdon, 1; Kent, 11; Canterbury, 2; Rochester, 1; Maidstone, 1 ; Dover, 1; Sandwich, 1; Queenborough, 1; Lancashire, 4; Preston, 1; Lancaster, 1; Liverpool, 1; Manchester, 1; Leicestershire, 4; Leicester, 2; Lincolnshire, 10; Lincoln, 2; Boston, 1; Grantham, 1; Stamford, 1; Great Grimsby, 1; Middlesex, 4; London, 6; Westmi
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), I. (search)
forge was established at Bath, in the vicinity of iron and wood. During the Roman occupation of England, some of the richest beds of iron ore were worked, and the debris and cinders yet exist in immense beds to testify to two facts: one, that the amount of material worked was very great; the other, that the plans adopted were wasteful, as it has since been found profitable to work the cinder over again. During the Saxon occupation the furnaces were still in blast, especially in Gloucestershire. The early Norman sovereigns were so intent upon skinning the Jews and the Saxons, that it became dangerous to succeed in any business, success being an invitation to the barons to plunder. Accordingly, we find in the time of King John that iron and steel were imported from Germany. The business lumbered along for some centuries, the government tinkering at it now and again, the exportation being prohibited in the fourteenth century, and the importation of iron in the fifteenth c
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), R. (search)
e wheel when a joint was to be roasted, the animals well knowing that industry would receive its reward. In the onward march of improvement, this device disappeared before its younger rival, the smoke-jack, which ate nothing; though within a comparatively recent period it might still be occasionally met with in England. Its faithful minister, the turnspit dog, is now but rarely seen. The illustration is taken from the castle of St. Briard, on the borders of the Forest of Dean, in Gloucestershire, and forcibly suggests the days when the roast beef of Old England still maintained its time-honored supremacy over mutton and such small deer. The turnspit at work. In default of a turnspit dog, — which is not an uncommon animal, but the art of being thus useful has been lost in the family for several generations past, — the spit may be turned by means of a weight and cord acting over a pulley and wound upon a drum, on whose axis is a band-wheel which turns the spit by means o
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
and the export of that metal from thence shortly afterward is mentioned by Strabo. During the Roman occupation of England some of the richest beds of iron ore were worked, and the debris and cinders yet exist to testify to two facts, — one, that the amount of material treated was immense; the other, that the plans adopted were wasteful, as it has since been found profitable to work the cinders over again. During the Saxon occupation the furnaces were still in blast, especially in Gloucestershire. The direct method of obtaining wrought-iron from the ore prevailed until the commencement of the fifteenth century, and then gradually gave way to a less direct process, but one more convenient in the handling of large quantities. Furnaces, operating by the aid of a strong blast, to melt the iron and obtain cast-iron, which is carbureted in the process, were in use in the neighborhood of the Rhine about 1500. A second process in a forge hearth was used to eliminate the carbon and
the Rev. W. Turner , Jun. , MA., Lives of the eminent Unitarians, John Biddle (search)
catalogue of worthies in whose characters and history, we, as Unitarians, may be expected to take a peculiar interest, as the ornaments of our faith, and as mainly instrumental in recommending it to the Christian world, not only by their able appeals to scripture and reason in its behalf, but by illustrating its efficacy and practical value in the example they have set before us of the virtues which ought to adorn the Christian character. Mr. Biddle was born at Wotton-under-Edge, in Gloucestershire, in the year 1615. Though he had no pretensions to the rank or eminence derived from a long line of distinguished ancestry, he inherited from his parents that truest respectability which arises from a faithful discharge of the duties of life, and which procured them, along with other more valuable advantages, an intercourse with persons of superior station. He received his classical education at the grammar school of his native place, where he seems to have distinguished himself by ea
The Daily Dispatch: March 15, 1861., [Electronic resource], Another Terrific gale in England. (search)
Another Terrific gale in England. --On Wednesday, February 20th, a furious gale swept over London and the surrounding country. In fact, it amounted to a perfect hurricane, and great was the consternation generally caused by the falling of stacks of chimneys, walls, palisades, and everything which afforded a butt to the wind and was not of sufficient strength to resist its violence. The houses in the more exposed situations were shaken to their foundations, much to the terror of the inhabitants. A large destruction of property is reported. The North wing of the Crystal Palace at Sydenham was totally destroyed. In Gloucestershire and Worcestershire the loss of property was very great. Trees in hundreds were thrown down, and many houses were unroofed. At Southampton and other points on the coast great damage was done to the shipping. Throughout the west of England the trains were delayed and telegraphic communication seriousy interrupted.
The Daily Dispatch: December 14, 1860., [Electronic resource], Reformatories and Diminution of crime. (search)
Reformatories and Diminution of crime. At the first meeting of the London Statistical Society, held on the 20th, Mr. Baker, of Hardwicke Court, Gloucestershire, read a paper on criminal returns, his object being to show that the general decrease of crime from the year 1856 to 1859 was principally to be attributed to the establishment of reformatories in all parts of the country. It appears that the number of commitments of every kind has diminished in the four years included in the returns, from 113,736 in 1856, to 107,172 in 1859, notwithstanding there is now greater activity in the police, and, consequently, a greater number of detections. With respect to juvenile crime, it has fallen steadily from 13,981 in 1856 to 8,913 in 1859, being a reduction of 5,068, or 36 per cent, while the adult crime has fallen steadily from 99,755 to 98,159, or 1 ½ per cent.