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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
over the instep and around the ankle. Sandals were worn by the Jews, and most Oriental nations, as well as by the Greeks and Romans, but appear to have been to a gretinctly shoes. c is the common sandal of the people. The common sandal, in Oriental countries, is made of a piece of hide from the neck of a camel, and sometimes tei-Menephthah was discovered by Belzoni in a deep recess of a tomb. It is of Oriental alabaster, and is covered with some thousands of figures, evidently a funeral nded to Northern Africa, opposite to the coast of Sicily. Scim′i-ter. An Oriental form of saber. It is generally made much heavier toward the point than the s graindrill, with bowl for the seed, and a tube to lead it into the furrow. Oriental plows. b is the modern Turkish plow. c, the modern Arab plow. Seedicings, processions, grand entries, and receptions has always been an accepted Oriental device for gracing such occasions. The feast of the dedication was such among
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), T. (search)
by the Thibetans. A tobacco-pipe, two pouches, flint and steel (which might readily be mistaken for a knife), and those Oriental substitutes for the knife and fork, the chopsticks, are also shown. A nourishing mess is prepared from this brick-tead also conical tents. They were sometimes of leather, usually of cloth. Nero had an octagon tent of great beauty. The Oriental tents were of silk, and gorgeously furnished. That of Attila was very spacious and magnificent. Alexander placed 200 p where the small ends of the reeds meet, is capped with straw. The most ancient mode of roofing was of boughs, or, in Oriental countries, of leaves. Thatch of reeds or straw is also very ancient. Servius and Plautus mention thatch, and Herodoturhaps, a true example of the Persian wheel. See Norin. In process of time this highly useful wheel, so much used in Oriental countries in raising water for irrigation, was improved by removing the exterior surface from which it derived its name,
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), U. (search)
with an umbrella in his hand Dionysius is also represented descending, ad infernos, with a small umbrella. In one feast of Athene, a white parasol was borne by the priestesses of the goddess from the Acropolis to the Phalerus. Mr. Ferguson states, in his Handbook of architecture, that the umbrella is shown in the cave of Karli, in India, and supposes the sculpture to be over eighteen hundred years old. The umbrella so used is called a tee, or tope finial, is a prominent feature in some Oriental buildings, especially the Chinese. The pagodas are a series of umbrella-like roofs. One, two, and a terminal, like other illustrations of the law of climax, may have had something to do with the triple crown or tiara. The machinery of worship in Europe, and here, so far as imported, is mostly of Asiatic origin,—bells, rosaries, censers, robes, and banners, the common property of the Aryan nations, from the Ganges to the Atlantic. See praying-machine. The Tcheou-Li, a book of Chinese
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), W. (search)
tter are given a quick and short alternately reciprocating motion (Fig. 7058). 9. Rocking. a. On a flat bed (Fig. 7059). b. In a concave (Fig. 7060). The Oriental washing-machine is rather hard on clothes, and has caused some surprise to ladies who have sent colored cotton goods to the wash, and have received them with allless. The interweaving of gold threads into dress-stuffs is mentioned by Pliny, who ascribes the invention to King Attalus; but it was practiced in Egypt and in Oriental countries before the era of that monarch. Gold wire is found attached to rings bearing the date of Osirtasen 1., 1740-1696 B. c. In ancient times, and, ind Building and various. Plane (occidental)Platanus occidentalisNorth AmericaMedium; called buttonwood and sycamore. Bedsteads, musical instruments, etc. Plane (Oriental）Platanus orientalisAsiaMedium. Joinery, cabinet-work, turnery. Plane or sycamoreAcer pseudo-platanusBritain, etcSoft. Wooden dishes, carving generally. PlumP
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories, Pennsylvania Volunteers. (search)
ion, to February, 1865. 2nd Brigade, Provisional Division, Army of the Shenandoah, to April, 1865. 2nd Brigade, Dwight's Division, 22nd Corps, Dept. of Washington, to May, 1865. 3rd Brigade, Dwight's Division, District of Savannah, Ga., Dept. South, to July, 1865. 1st Subdistrict, South Carolina, Dept. South Carolina, to December, 1865. Service. Duty in the Defenses of Washington, D. C., till January, 1862. Moved to Key West, Florida, via Annapolis, Md., and on Steamer Oriental January 22-February 4. Duty at Fort Taylor, Key West, Florida, till June 18. Moved to Hilton Head, S. C., June 18-22, thence to Beaufort, S. C., July 2, and duty there till October. Expedition to Florida September 30-October 13. St. John's Bluff October 3. Capture of Jacksonville October 5 (Cos. E and K ). Expedition from Jacksonville to Lake Beresford and capture of Steamer Gov. Milton near Hawkinsville October 6 (Cos. E and K ). Expedition to Pocotaligo, S. C., Octo
Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 6: (search)
own career. Mr. Sumner prepared for The Law Reporter of June, 1846, another beautiful tribute, to the memory of the eminent scholar John Pickering, who died on the 5th of May preceding; and, in the course of the eulogy of his friend, indicates the magic of his own success: His talisman, said he, was industry. He was pleased in referring to those rude inhabitants of Tartary, who placed idleness in the torments of the world to come; and often remembered the beautiful proverb in his Oriental studies, that by labor the leaf of the mulberry-tree is turned to silk. His life is a perpetual commentary on those words of untranslatable beauty in the great Italian poet:-- Seggendo in piuma, In fama non si vien, ne sotto coltre: Senza la qual chi sua vita consuma. Cotal vestigio in terra di se lascia, Qual fumo in áere ed in acqua la schiuma. Dante, Inferno, Canto XXV. On the twenty-seventh day of August, 1846, Mr. Sumner pronounced his splendid oration on The Scholar, the Juris
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Olde Cambridge, Chapter 1: old Cambridge (search)
ry of printing says that the press of Harvard College was, for a time, as celebrated as the press of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge in England. And not merely were the foundations of the town and of the college thus laid in literature, but the early presidents of Harvard were usually selected, not merely for soundness of doctrine,which was not always their strong point,--but for their scholarship and even supposed literary taste. President Dunster, for instance, was an eminent Oriental scholar and performed also the somewhat dubious service of preparing the New England psalm book. As originally compiled it had dissatisfied Cotton Mather, who had hoped that a little more of art was to be employed in it, and good Mr. Shepard thus ventured to criticise its original compilers, the Rev. Richard Mather of Dorchester and the Rev. Messrs. Eliot and Welde of Roxbury:-- You Roxb'ry poets, keep clear of the crime Of missing to give us very good rhyme, And you of Dorchester, you
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 1, Chapter 23: Communism. (search)
ribe. A Pai-TJte who scalps a Shoshone in revenge becomes a chief; a Salhaan who kills an Adouan in revenge becomes a sheikh. Revenge, according to these savage codes, ennobles the shedder of blood. In a Corsican village, the man who has last drawn blood in a great vendetta, struts about in cap and feathers, envied by every village swain, adored by every village maiden. On the Nile, a fellah who goes into the neighbouring hamlet, and exacts blood for blood, is said to do a royal deed. Oriental lawgivers have usually been forced to admit the principle, even while they were trying to check the practice of Blood Atonements. Moses allows retaliation, though he places it under some restraint. Mohammed treats it in a similar spirit. Solon saw the absurdity of exacting tooth for tooth, and eye for eye, yet the Athenian legislator left the principle embodied in his code. England has the merit of repudiating this savage principle. Once, indeed, an attempt was made to introduce the pr
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Chapter 19: personal traits. (search)
labor, and this usually for other people. All periods have their fashions. It does not mar our impression of the admirable capacity and self-devotion of Abigail Adams that she signed her early letters to her husband, John Adams, as Portia. It was the fashion of the time; and when Margaret Fuller afterwards tried to write out her imaginative and mystical side under the name of Leila, it belonged to that period also; a period when German romance was just beginning to be translated, and Oriental poetry to be read. These were her dreams, her idealities; but when it was a question how to provide schoolbooks and an overcoat for her little brother, no other of ten children ever set about the business with less of haziness or indefniteness of mind. If I have seemed in this book to bring my heroine down from the clouds a little; it is simply because I have used the materials at my command, and have tried to paint her as she was; a being not fed on nectar and ambrosia, after all, but on
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Section Fifth: Senatorial career. (search)
y our fathers, at the formation of our National Government, in the absolute control of the States, the appointed guardians of Personal Liberty. Repeal this enactment. Let its terrors no longer rage through the land. Mindful of the lowly whom it pursues; mindful of the good men perplexed by its requirements; in the name of charity, in the name of the Constitution, repeal this enactment, totally and without delay. Be inspired by the example of Washington. Be admonished by those words of Oriental piety—Beware of the groans of the wounded souls. Oppress not to the utmost a single heart; for a solitary sigh has power to overset a whole world. Xxiii. Some other words were uttered on the floor of the Senate, after the delivery of this speech, which should be preserved, since the speakers have all passed away. Mr. Hale, the Senator from New Hampshire, said: I feel that I should be doing injustice to my own feelings, and injustice to my friend the Senator from Massachusetts, if I
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