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P. Ovidius Naso, Art of Love, Remedy of Love, Art of Beauty, Court of Love, History of Love, Amours (ed. various) 1 1 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Walker, Sir Hovenden 1660- (search)
Walker, Sir Hovenden 1660- Military officer; born in Somersetshire, England, about 1660; became a captain in the navy in 1692, and rear-admiral of the white in 1710. The next year he was knighted by Queen Anne. He made an attempt to capture Quebec in 1711, commanding the naval armament sent for that purpose (see Quebec). Returning to England, his ship, the Edgar, blew up at Spithead, when nearly all the crew perished. This accident and the disastrous expedition to Quebec drew upon him almost unqualified censure, and he was dismissed from the service. He afterwards settled upon a plantation in South Carolina; but returned to Great Britain, and died of a broken heart in Dublin, Ireland, in January, 1726.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Willard, Samuel 1640- (search)
Willard, Samuel 1640- Clergyman; born in Concord, Mass. Jan. 31, 1640; graduated at Harvard College in 1659; studied theology and was minister in Groton in 1663-76, when he was driven away by King Philip's War; was pastor of Old South Church, Boston, in 1678; opposed the witchcraft delusions of 1692; and was vice-president and acting president of Harvard College from 1701 till his death, in Boston, Sept. 12, 1707.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Witchcraft, Salem (search)
ed, Witchcraft is the most nefarious hightreason against the Majesty on high. A witch is not to be endured in heaven or on earth. His sermon was printed and scattered broadcast among the people, and bore terrible fruit not long afterwards. In 1692 an epidemic disease broke out in Danvers resembling epilepsy. The physicians could not control it, and, with Mather's sermon before them, they readily ascribed it to witchcraft. A niece and daughter of the parish clergyman were seized with convuome old or ill-favored woman of bewitching them. At length the afflicted and the accused became so numerous that no person was safe from suspicion and its consequences. During the prevalence of this terrible delusion, in the spring and summer of 1692, nineteen persons were hanged; one was Witches' Hill. killed by the horrible punishment of pressing to death; fifty-five were frightened or tortured into a confession of guilt; 150 were imprisoned, and fully 200 were named as worthy of arrest.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Yale, Elihu 1649-1721 (search)
Yale, Elihu 1649-1721 Philanthropist; born in New Haven, Conn., April 5, 1649; was educated in England. About 1678 he went to the East Indies where he remained twenty years and amassed a large estate. He was governor of Fort George there from 1687 to 1692. Mr. Yale married a native of the East Indies, by whom he had three daughters. He passed his latter days in England, where he was made governor of the East India Company and a fellow of the Royal Society. He remembered his native country with affection, and when the school that grew into a college was founded he gave donations to it amounting in the aggregate to about $2,000. It was given the name of Yale in his honor. He died in London, July 8, 1721.
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), A. (search)
It is a cheap material and easily built up. It does not appear likely ever to become a favorite mode of building in those parts of the United States which are at present most thickly populated. It will not do to make too general a statement in a country whose climate varies between Alaska and Mexico. Ad-vice′--boat. A fast-sailing vessel used for reconnoitering. First used, say the authorities, in spying the operations of the French fleet in Brest, previous to the battle of La Hogue, 1692. Of course Themistocles and the consul Caius Duilius never had any light amphiprorae to overhaul the Persians or the Carthaginians, and when found make note on. Adze. Adze. The adze is a very ancient tool, and has a curved blade whose edge is at right angles to the handle; differing from the axe, in which the blade is parallel to the handle. The forms and sizes differ with the character of the work, and in some cases the bit is gouge-shaped in addition to its curve in the plane of
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), D. (search)
in that part of the Colony now known as the State of Maine. Phipps was brought up as a ship-carpenter in Boston, and made many unsuccessful attempts to interest parties in the work. When he succeeded, James II. was urged to confiscate the pound 16,000 which came to the share of William Phipps; for once in his life the king refused to do a mean thing. Phipps was afterwards made high-sheriff of the Colony, was knighted, and subsequently was governor. The English patent of John Williams, 1692, is for an engine for carrying four men 15 fathoms or more under water in the sea, whereby they may work twelve hours together without any danger. It is stated to be useful in raising sunken vessels. It had a submerged chamber, communicating with the surface by a rigid tube, up and down which persons might pass. Projecting sleeves and hooks afforded means for directing grapnels to sunken property. Beckmann mentions a print in Vegetius on War, published in 1511 and 1532, representing a d
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), F. (search)
paper, or cloth, probably each of these, according to circumstances. (For early notices, see gunpowder.) The cracker was used as a grenade anciently in China, and in the 8th century by the Greeks. The first fire-arms used in Europe were cannon. (See artillery; cannon.) Fire-arms to be carried by the soldier were a later invention. The arquebus was used in 1480. The musket by Charles V. in 1540. These used matches or match-locks. The wheel-lock was invented 1517; the flint-lock about 1692. The percussion principle by the Rev. Mr. Forsythe, in 1807. See gun-lock. For varieties, see under the following heads: — Accelerator.Gatling-gun. Armstrong-gun.Gun. Arquebus.Howitzer. Barbette-gun.Jingal. Battery-gun.Lancaster-gun. Birding-piece.Magazine fire-arm. Blunderbuss.Mitrailleur. Bombard.Mortar. Breech-loader.Musket. Byssa.Musketoon. Calabass.Needle-gun. Cannon.Ordnance. Carbine.Parrot-gun. Carronade.Pistol. Casemate-gun.Pistol-carbine. Chassepot-gun.Pivot-g
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), P. (search)
g-board. The hammers are pellets of cork on the ends of elastic rods held in the hands of the performer. This may be the psaltery of the Hebrews: it is hard to tell. The citole, or little chest, was a box with stretched strings which were played by the fingers. Now for a long step: The first stringed instrument in which the hammers were mechanically operated seems to have been the clavicytherium, or keyed cithara (clavis, a key). (See consecutive statement accompanying Plate XL., page 1692.) In this illustration of the sequence of instruments are also shown the clavichord or monochord and the virginal, all of which preceded the spinet, harpsichord, hammer-harpsichord, and fortepiano, as it was first named. Keys were applied to organs in the eleventh century; centuries before they were used on stringed instruments by Guido, of Arezzo, who originated the clavicytherium, or keyed cithara. The history of the piano-forte as we have seen, involves the early history of stringed in
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), R. (search)
ooved-bored small-arms are said to have been in use as far back as 1498; these, however, do not seem to have been rifled in the proper acceptation of the term, the grooves being straight and intended merely to prevent fouling of the bore and facilitate cleaning. The grooves were made spiral by Koster of Birmingham, England, about 1620. In Berlin is a rifled cannon of 1664, with 13 grooves, and one in Munich of perhaps equal antiquity has 8 grooves. The French Carabineers had rifled arms in 1692. Pere Daniel, who wrote in 1693, mentions rifling the barrels of small-arms, and the practice was apparently well known at that time. Rifles were early used by the American settlers in their conflicts with the Indians; and their first successful employment in civilized warfare is said to have been by the colonists in the war of the Revolution. In the Artillery Museum at Paris is a large assortment of old rifles, comprehending a great diversity of grooves and twists. These exhibit st
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
d of ruby. Spin′et. （Music.) A small instrument of the harpsichord kind. It had a single wire for each note, and this was vibrated by a quill. The quill was placed in a jack, a vertical piece which was lifted by the key. The keys were arranged as in the modern piano. It probably had catgut strings at first, but afterward had about 30 brass wires for the lower notes and 20 steel ones for the upper. It was used in France as early as A. D. 1515. The illustration q, Plate XL. page 1692, is from Bonanni's Gabinetto Armonico, 4to, Rome, 1722. The spinet was always triangular, and occupied a place in point of time between the virginal and the harpsichord. Unlike the former, its strings were strained over a bent bridge, and were struck by quills; and, unlike the latter, it had but a single string to a note. See history of the development of the piano-forte, pages 1690, 1691. Lord Bacon says: In spinets, as soon as the spine is let fall to touch the string, the sound ceases
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