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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), O. (search)
nd his name is Ctesibus. And Aristocles reports this in his book on Choruses, saying: The question is asked, whether the hydraulic organ is a stringed or a wind instrument. Now, Aristoxenus did not feel sure on this point; but it is said that Plato showed a certain notion of the invention, making a nightly clock like the hydraulic organ, being very like an enormous hour-glass, which, indeed, it resembles. It cannot, therefore, be considered a stringed instrument, and one to be played by toted in 1715 by Rowley, after a pattern devised by the clockmaker George Graham. See planetarium; Tellurian. The heliocentric theory was held by the ancient Egyptians, and taught by them to Pythagoras. The theory did not flourish in Greece. Plato mentions it. A few scholars, like Nicolas (probably of Laodicea, fourth century A. D.), entertained it during the vast intervening period, and it was eventually revived by Copernicus. When the Spaniards conquered Peru, they found the natives
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
rsons, like the pit-saw. Ancient saws. g, Fig. 3032, page 1379, represents a saw discovered by Mr. Burton at Thebes, and now placed in the British Museum. The owner had probably been dead several hundred years before Pythagoras, Solon, or Plato visited Egypt to study science. The ancient saws were hand and frame. a. From a painting at Herculaneum. Two genii working a frame-saw. b. A frame-saw from a funeral monument. c. A frame-saw blade detached; from a monument. d. An Eged into $3 17s. 10d. 2f., and an ounce of standard silver into 5s. 6d. Copper is coined in the proportion of 2 shillings to the pound avoirdupois. The relative value of gold and silver has been variable. Herodotus mentions it as13 to 1. Plato mentions it as12 to 1. Menander mentions it as10 to 1. Livy, B. C. 189,10 to 1. Julius Caesar exchanged at9 to 1. Early Emperors (average),12 to 1. From Constantine to Justinian,14 to 1. Modern times, from14 to 1 to 17 to 1. 9. A unit o
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), T. (search)
reen or curtain. Ovid mentions human figures as worked on the curtains of theaters. For an account of ancient tapestry, see Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, article Tapes. Tapestry is described in the Book of Exodus. Plato, the comic poet, namesake of the philosopher, says: — There the well-dressed guests recline On couches rich with ivory feet; And on their purple cushions dine, Which rich Sardinian carpets meet For the art of weaving embroidered cloths was inphists, says: Clearchus the Solensian has explained the cause of this in his Treatise on Torpor, but since his explanation is rather a long one, I do not recollect his exact words. The author of the Banquet of the learned goes on to say :— Plato, the philosopher, says in the Meno, you seem very much to resemble the sea-torpedo, for that fish causes any one who comes near it to become torpid ; and an allusion to the name occurs also in Homer, where he says,— His hand was torpid at the<
Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 7: (search)
. And this is natural; for, in order to do right, we must first understand what is right. But the people of Greece and Rome, even in the brilliant days of Pericles and Augustus, were unable to arrive at this knowledge. The sublime teachings of Plato and Socrates — calculated in many respects to promote the best interests of the race — were restrained in their influence to the small company of listeners, or to the few who could obtain a copy of the costly manuscript in which they were preserv the utterances of the human voice, which else would die away within the precincts of a narrow room, are prolonged to the most distant nations and times, with winged words circling the globe. We admire the genius of Demosthenes, of Sophocles, of Plato, and of Phidias; but the printing-press is a higher gift to man than the eloquence, the drama, the philosophy, and the art of Greece. The power even of the rudest people to advance in civilization under the law of progress, and the auspicious
Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 16: (search)
st teachers, if not lawgivers — was a slave; so also was Phaedrus the Roman fabulist, whose lessons are commended by purity and elegance; and so, too, was Aleman the lyric, who shed upon Sparta the grace of poesy. To these add Epictetus, sublime in morals; and Terence, incomparable in comedy, who gave to the world that immortal verse, which excited the applause of the Roman theatre, I am a man; and nothing which concerns mankind is foreign to me. Nor should it be forgotten that the life of Plato was checkered by slavery. On the 27th he spoke in favor of a national currency; and on the 30th he opened the way to a great reform still needed, by the introduction of a bill to provide for the greater efficiency of the civil service. In June following he took an active part in the debates on the Freedmen's Bureau Bill. In the course of his remarks he said: The freedmen are not idlers. They desire work. But in their helpless condition they are not able to obtain it without assistanc
Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches, Lowell (search)
for his own fruit. Emerson remarked on this, that Thoreau was sufficiently original in his own way; and he always spoke of Lowell in a friendly and appreciative manner. The whole poem is filled with such homely comparisons, which hit the nail exactly on the head. The most subtle piece of analysis, however, is Lowell's comparison between Emerson and Carlyle: There are persons, mole-blind to the soul's make and style, Who insist on a likeness 'twixt him and Carlyle; To compare him with Plato would be vastly fairer, Carlyle's the more burly, but E. is the rarer; He sees fewer objects, but clearlier, truelier, If C.'s as original, E.'s more peculiar; That he's more of a man you might say of the one, Of the other he's more of an Emerson; C.'s the Titan, as shaggy of mind as of limb,-- E. the clear-eyed Olympian, rapid and slim; The one's two-thirds Norseman, the other half Greek, Where the one's most abounding, the other's to seek. It was the fashion in England at that time to disp
Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches, Chevalier Howe. (search)
f Navarino, it must have been finished after his return to America. The book was hastily written, and hastily published. To judge from appearances it was hurried through the press without being revised either by its author or a competent proofreader; but it is a vigorous, spirited narrative, and the best chronicle of that period in English. Would there were more such histories, even if the writing be not always grammatical. Doctor Howe does not sentimentalize over the ruins of Sparta or Plato's Academy, but he describes Greece as he found it, and its inhabitants as he knew them. He possesses what so many historians lack, and that is the graphic faculty. He writes in a better style than either Motley or Bancroft. His book ought to be revised and reprinted. We quote from it this clear-sighted description of the preparation for a Graeco-Turkish sea-fight: Soon the proud fleet of the Capitan Pashaw was seen coming down toward Samos, and the Greek vessels advanced to meet
John Jay Chapman, William Lloyd Garrison, Chapter 9: Garrison and Emerson. (search)
nother page, we start objections to your project, oh, friend of the slave, or friend of the poor or of the race, understand well it is because we wish to drive you to drive us into your measures. We wish to hear ourselves confuted. We are haunted with a belief that you have a secret which it would highliest advantage us to learn, and we would force you to impart it to us, though it should bring us to prison or to worse extremity. This last passage is an echo of the admirable fooling of Plato's dialogues. But it is not in phrases like these that men show their understanding of a subject like slavery. The time shall come when the fire shall descend on Emerson and he shall tear his mantle and put dust upon his head. If you would see how a man speaks when the virus of Anti-slavery has really entered his veins, you must turn to the address that Emerson delivered at Cooper Union in New York on March 7th, 1854. It is the Fugitive Slave Law that has aroused the seer and wrenched him
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Chapter 8: conversations in Boston. (search)
while she was living and moving in an ideal world, talking in private and discoursing in public about the most fanciful and shallow conceits which the Transcendentalists of Boston took for philosophy, she looked down upon persons who acted instead of talking finely, and devoted their fortunes, their peace, their repose, and their very lives to the preservation of the principles of the republic. While Margaret Fuller and her adult pupils sat gorgeously dressed, talking about Mars and Venus, Plato and Goethe, and fancying themselves the elect of the earth in intellect and refinement, the liberties of the republic were running out as fast as they could go, at a breach which another sort of elect persons were devoting themselves to repair; and my complaint against the gorgeous pedants was that they regarded their preservers as hewers of wood and drawers of water, and their work as a less vital one than the pedantic orations which were spoiling a set of well-meaning women in a pitiable
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Chapter 12: books published. (search)
a and her friend Caroline von Gunderode. These letters were published at Leipzig in 1840, after the death of Gunderode. They were apparently written in the years 1805-06, when Bettina was about sixteen; and she in her letters to Goethe's mother, published in Correspondence of a child, gives an account of this friend and her tragic death. Bettina is now little read, even by young people, apparently, but she then gave food for the most thoughtful. Emerson says: Once I took such delight in Plato that I thought I never should need any other book; then in Swedenborg, then in Montaigne,--even in Bettina; and Mr. Alcott records in his diary (August 2, 1839), he [Emerson] seems to be as much taken with Bettina as I am. For the young, especially, she had a charm which lasts through life, insomuch that the present writer spent two happy days on the Rhine, so lately as 1878, in following out the traces of two impetuous and dreamy young women whom it would have seemed natural to meet on any
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