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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Chicago, (search)
unheeded. Massacre at Fort Dearborn. The less honorable Indians promised good conduct, but there were unmistakable signs Medal given to Black Partridge by the Americans. of treachery, and when the morning arrived for the departure of the white people (Aug. 15), it was clearly seen that the hostiles intended to murder them. With that conviction, the garrison and white settlers went out of the gate of the fort in procession, like a funeral march. The band struck up the Dead March in Saul. The wives of Heald and Helm rode on horseback by the side of their husbands; the former, a good shot, was armed with a rifle. They had not gone far when their savage escort, 500 strong, fell upon them, and a sharp and bloody conflict ensued. Rebecca. Heald behaved bravely. She received several wounds, but, though bleeding and faint, she kept her saddle; and when a fierce The last vestige of Fort Dearborn. savage raised his tomahawk to slay her, she said, in a sweet voice, in his own la
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), A. (search)
not straighten perfectly may have suggested to them the very unique weapon, the boomerang, which was imported into England as a curiosity perhaps 30 years ago. During the historic period we find the most ancient weapon noted in the Bible is the sword. It was the instrument of violence, as Jacob called it, wherewith Simeon and Levi slaughtered the Shechemites (Genesis XXXIV. 25). Phineas, the grandson of Aaron, carried a javelin. Ehud had a short dagger (Judges III. 16). David declined Saul's sword, and used a sling, but afterward took the sword of Goliath. Many centuries before, all these weapons had been used in China, India, Assyria, and Egypt. Pliny ascribes the invention of the sling to the Phaenicians. The Balearic Islanders were celebrated for their expertness in its use. Slings and bows were employed by all the nations of antiquity, but among those who attained the highest military reputation, as the Greeks and Romans, were looked upon merely as auxiliary weapons
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), B. (search)
repute in the Middle Ages, was a cumbrous and heavy weapon bent by a small windlass, and incapable of rapid loading and discharge. For illustrations see Iconographic Encyclopedia, Frost's pictorial history ; and for descriptions see Gibbon's history and other works treating of ancient and mediaeval military tactics and weapons. The use of the bow is of great antiquity. Plato credits Apollo with the invention. Ishmael became an archer (Gen. XXI. 20). The Philistine archers overcame Saul (1 Sam. XXXI. 3). David commanded it to be taught (2 Sam. i. 18). Aster of Amphipolis shot Philip of Macedon, and was hanged therefor. An ancient Egyptian bow is preserved in the Abbott Museum, New York, together with the leather case that contained it and fastened it to the war-chariot. Four arrows, made of reed and tipped with flint-stone, are suspended with it. The Scythian bow was remarkable for its great curvature, being nearly semicircular. The Lycian bow was made of the cornel-
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), P. (search)
The Egyptians were not ignorant of the use of soft pillows. A cushion with a linen cover and filled with the feathers of water-fowl is preserved in the British Museum. Michal, when she sought to save her husband David from the fury of her father Saul, took an image and laid it in the bed, pillowing its head upon a bolster of goat's hair covered with a cloth. Cushions and pillows are common in the East, formed of sheep's fleeces or goat-skins stuffed with cotton. Pil′low-block. （lattening a portion to enable it to throw the soil laterally, and then attaching the hilt to the stock at the most efficient angle. Had the comparison been made in our times, the change of the sword to a colter might have been suggested. While Saul the son of Kish was yet a young king and was the head of a little band in Gilgal, 1093 B. C., the Israelites, who had no smiths, went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his share and his colter, and his axe and his mattock. — 1 Samuel X<
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
lls thou mayest dig brass (copper). The hills of Palestine furnished the ore in the time of the Judges, and do to this day. It was used for making the bedstead of Og, king of Bashan (see bedstead), for the axes and sickles of the Egyptians from time immemorial, and for axes in Palestine in the times of Samson and Elisha; for chains in the time of Jeremiah; harrows in the time of Samuel and David; for mattocks, files, goads, swords, spears, shares, colters, forks, etc., previous to the time of Saul, say about 1100 B. C., and no doubt long before. The Israelites worked in the iron-furnaces of Egypt during their captivity. The rigidity and strength of iron afford a basis for several metaphors in that most ancient and wonderful poem, the Book of Job. The iron-smelting furnaces of Africa are thus described by Dr. Livingston:— At every third or fourth village (in the regions near Lake Nyssa) we saw a kiln-looking structure, about 6 feet high and 2 1/2 feet in diameter. It is a cla
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), W. (search)
(Tasmanian)Acacia (?)Tasmania, etcHard. Ornamental furniture, turnery, etc. Sandal-woodSantalum albumIndiaSoft, fragrant. Fancy boxes, etc., and carving. Colors, white, yellow, and red. Sapan-woodCaesalpina sapanIndiaDyeing, turning. SassafrasAtherosperma moschataTasmaniaHard. Flooring of houses, carpenter's bench-screws. SassafrasSassafras officinalisAmericaTurning, cabinet-work, and in medicine. Satin woodChloroxylon swienteniaE. IndiesOrnamental cabinet-ware, beautifully marked. Saul or salShorea robustaE. IndiesHard. Carpentry. Scotch firPinus sylvestrisScotland, etcMedium. Affords the yellow deal used in England. Service-treeAmelanchier canadensisEastern U. S.Red, hard, and lasting. Tool-handles, etc. She-oakCasuarina quadrivalvisTasmaniaHard. Cabinet-work, chairs, picture-frames, etc. Silver-woodLeucadendron argenteumCape of Good HopeHard, beautifully marked. Furniture, cabinet-work. SissooDalbergia sissooIndiaHard. Shipbuilding, etc. Snake-woodW. Indies an
Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches, Leaves from a Roman diary: February, 1869 (Rewritten in 1897） (search)
y which is like their own. This is true at least of Lowell, Emerson, or Matthew Arnold; but when I came to read The Ring and the book I found that Longfellow's objection was a valid one. I remarked that Rev. Mr. Longfellow had a decided partiality for Browning. Yes, he said; Sam likes him, and my friend John Weiss prefers him to Tennyson. My objection is to his diction. I have always found the English language sufficient for my purpose, and have never tried to improve on it. Browning's Saul and The Ride from Ghent to Aix are noble poems. Carlyle also, I said, has a peculiar diction. That is true, he replied, but one can forgive anything to a writer who has so much to tell us as Carlyle. Besides, he writes prose, and not poetry. He took up a photograph which was lying on the table and showed it to me, saying, How do you like Miss Stebbins's Satan I told him I hardly knew how to judge of such a subject. Then we both laughed, and Mr. Longfellow said: I wonder what our art
John F. Hume, The abolitionists together with personal memories of the struggle for human rights, Chapter 1: Theodore Roosevelt and the Abolitionists (search)
to be a facile instrument in the hands of the slaveholders. He was what the Abolitionists described as a doughface --a Northern man with Southern principles. As presiding officer he gave the casting vote in the Senate for the bill that excluded Anti-Slavery matter from the United States mails, a bill justly regarded as one of the greatest outrages ever perpetrated in a free country, and as holding a place by the side of the Fugitive Slave Law. True, he afterwards — this was in 1848,--like Saul of Tarsus, saw a new light and announced himself as a Free Soiler. Then the Abolitionists, with what must always be regarded as an extraordinary concession to partisan policy, cast aside their prejudices and gave him their support. Yet Mr. Roosevelt charges them with being indifferent to the demands of political expediency. General William Henry Harrison, candidate of the Whigs, was a Virginian by birth and training, and an inveterate pro-slavery man. When Governor of the Territory of In
Waitt, Ernest Linden, History of the Nineteenth regiment, Massachusetts volunteer infantry , 1861-1865, Chapter 24: the winter camp at Falmouth. (search)
arbine, as firing party. Directly behind him were four negroes, two large and two small, bearing between them two sticks upon which rested a cracker box,—the casket of the deceased. Then came the mourners (officers who had anticipated eating the turkey), all so disguised that even their mothers would not have known them. With bowed head and solemn mien, the sombre column moved with measured tread to the creek. Capt. Adams, in his capacity of the band, was combing out the Dead March from Saul. As they reached the creek, filled to the brink by the recent rains, the column halted and the pall bearers deposited their burden upon the bank. The others formed in half circle around it, with uncovered heads and then Capt. Jack, after a few earnest words as to the goodness and virtue of the dear departed, cast the cracker box and its contents into the flood. As the turbid waters bore it out of sight, the column re-formed, and, to the tune of Yankee Doodle on the comb, marched back to ca
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, John Greenleaf Whittier, Chapter 10: the religious side (search)
the signs of the times who do not see that the hour is coming when, under the searching eye of philosophy and the terrible analysis of science, the letter and the outward evidence will not altogether avail us; when the surest dependence must be upon the Light of Christ within, disclosing the law and the prophets in our own souls, and confirming the truth of outward Scripture by inward experience; when smooth stones from the brook of present revelation shall prove mightier than the weapons of Saul; when the doctrine of the Holy Spirit, as proclaimed by George Fox and lived by John Woolman, shall be recognised as the only efficient solvent of doubts raised by an age of restless inquiry. In this belief my letter was written. I am sorry it did not fall to the lot of a more fitting hand; and can only hope that no consideration of lack of qualification on the part of its writer may lessen the value of whatever testimony to truth shall be found in it. Amesbury, 3d mo., 1870.Whittier's P
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